From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 9/22/23 16:14, songbird wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   30 bilberry seeds.  I'd posit they are about   
   the size of blueberry seeds or maybe onion seeds.   
   They are small, but I do not have them in   
   hand yet.   
      
   I like your idea of the rocks!  Got lots   
   of clean, pretty, small round ones.   
      
   Do I freeze the first?  Or ruff them up them first?   
      
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