From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   > Hi All,   
   >   
   > What is the easiest way to perform "scarification"   
   > on small seeds?   
      
     how small?   
      
     sometimes such is provided by the environment   
   via erosion/washing around and being abraded by   
   hard things.   
      
     so pehaps you could put the seeds in a container   
   with some sand and small pebbles and shake it a   
   little.   
      
     if you have a lot of seeds you could break them   
   into batches and apply different methods for   
   different lengths of time to find out which one   
   works best.   
      
      
   > And do you do this before or after performing   
   > stratification (freezing) on them?   
   >   
   > Many thanks,   
   > -T   
   >   
   > Me thinks a bird eats the berry, his digestive   
   > system scars the seed, he poops out the scarred   
   > seed, the weather freezes for the winter, the   
   > seeds germinated in the spring.  But then again,   
   > I do not know what I am doing.   
      
     we all have to start somewhere.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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