IN his Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on November 3 on “Germination of Seeds”, Sir Arthur Hill discussed the many ingenious devices for the protection of the seed and ...
The moment a seed starts to grow is called ‘Germination’. Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate. Plants in the wild have many different ways of scattering their seeds ...
The trick to getting a persimmon seed to germinate is to recreate its natural pre-germination conditions, in which the fruit seeds need a chilling period before leaving dormancy and sprouting.