Pink Silk Tree seed down
I checked my seeds again today. The Maple is still doing fine. The soil is damp and the seeds are still cold and that's all you can expect at this stage.
The Persian Pink Silk Tree is still having problems. When I checked them a couple of days after the last post when I discovered the mould they were doing ok but when I checked them again today the mould was back. I think maybe I didn't wrap them up well enough after checking them the last time.
I tried repeating what I did the last time, by removing the mould, but when I picked up the seed it fell apart into mush in my hands. I emptied the pot out onto some newspaper which soaked up some of the excess moisture and I examined the remaining three seeds. One was showing some signs of mould but I think I managed to remove it. The other two were still ok.
I'm consoling myself with the thought that this is a replication of what happens in nature; some seeds just fall in the wrong ground and rot. There might even be a parable in it. It's still hard to explain the sadness I felt when I saw the seed fall apart and expose its green inside.
I'm going to start germinating the Japanese Maple this weekend, that being six weeks since I put them in the fridge, which is the minimum amount of stratification time called for in the leaflet.
