Seed Starting
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Subject: Hydrogen Peroxide Soak? Are you diluting?
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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I keep seeing people with seeds soaking in Peroxide in little cups. I hope you guys are diluting this 10:1. Peroxide at 3% is to strong.
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4/25/2005 9:38:26 AM
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Mr. Orange |
Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany
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I've used 3% H2O2 straight out of the bottle for three years now and always got 100% germination.
Now I bought a bottle of 30% H2O2 because it's a lot cheaper if you dilute it down to 3% yourself. However, I wouldn't use the 30% H2O2 right away... :-)
Martin
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4/25/2005 1:56:49 PM
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BenDB |
Key West, FL
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I use 3% too and have had no problems....
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4/25/2005 3:29:12 PM
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CliffWarren |
Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)
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Why do people do use this? What does it actually do? I'm not trying to ask a sarcastic question, just really want to know... why?
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4/25/2005 3:49:11 PM
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Mr. Orange |
Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany
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It disinfects the seed, kills fungal spores, etc. I don't like to use fungicide on the seed and so this is the (next) best thing. The seed (embryo) also seems to profit from the additional Oxygen.
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4/25/2005 4:12:47 PM
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Alexsdad |
Garden State Pumpkins
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I sorta agree if you file and soak and find your Cotes a little bit crispy/wispy around the edges could be you went to far with the file or soaked a little long in to strong of a solution...gotta be kind to this little guys cause they are the "plant food" until roots are developed and working.
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4/25/2005 7:14:39 PM
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Tremor |
Ctpumpkin@optonline.net
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Straight up right out of the very diluted bottle from the local CVS. Oxygenates the soaking solution. 3% is mostly water as it is. I know that some growers further dilute it 50/50 with water or 1.5% which is very weak.
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4/25/2005 7:16:34 PM
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Dakota Gary |
Sioux Falls, SD garyboer@dakotalink.com
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i filed and soaked in 3%. ..3 for 4 after two days at 85 still waiting for the 4th
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4/25/2005 9:50:05 PM
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Ron Rahe (uncron1@hotmail.com) |
Cincinnati,OH
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I use 3% diluted 50/50 with water for 6 hours.
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4/26/2005 4:21:59 PM
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pumpkinpal2 |
Syracuse, NY
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i've got an 1140 Stelts that was black on one entire side of the seed...oh, i WILL be using 3% right from the bottle.
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4/27/2005 12:59:34 AM
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BenDB |
Key West, FL
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well considering 11 of the 12 seeds I started saturday, have come up today, 3 days later, I will continue to use 3%.
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4/27/2005 1:51:14 AM
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Wyecomber |
Canada
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I use 50/50 with a few drops of seaweed extract all seeds kept at 80-85 16-20 hours later they are cracking open at which time they go into the soil and are up a day or 2 later
Dave
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4/27/2005 1:16:54 PM
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