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Old 03-28-2021, 12:28 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Chloroform Improves Tomato Seed Germination

The final result for the above is that, for both treated and untreated seeds, the 16 out of 17 seeds germinated. The only effect demonstrated was earlier germination and a decrease in the variance of time to germination for the chloroform treated seeds.

NEW EXPERIMENT:

On 3/14/21, I treated 21 year old tomato 'Better Boy' seeds and 13 year old tomato 'Giant Tree' seeds, as before, but planted 25 seeds of a kind in the same containers. These seeds were aged in my basement instead of a refrigerator. In the following photos, the top left container is untreated Giant Tree, top right is treated Giant Tree, bottom left is untreated Better Boy, bottom right is treated Better Boy.

3/28/21:



So far, only 5 treated Giant Tree seeds have germinated.
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