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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:03 pm   Post subject: Scarifying Seeds


Can anyone tell me what the term "scarifying" means?
Does it mean to boil seeds in hot water before sowing?

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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:59 pm   Post subject:


Hi,
Scarifying means to make a cut in a hard shelled seed.
Nature usually does this by the freezing and thawing action during the course of a winter. But people do it by carefully making a small nick in the hard shell of the seed. It doesn't have to be a large cut, just a nick with a knife or nail clippers will work.


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