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How To Make Free Smoke Seed Primer For Germination of Protea, Leucospermums & Fynbos Plants
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2012
- Smoke Seed Primer is ideal for treating seeds of Proteas, Leucospermums (pincushions), Leucadendrons, Ericas, Strelitzias, Helichrysums (everlastings), restios (Cape grasses), Lobelias, grasses, sedges, mesembs (vygies), Geleznowia, Hibbertia, Stirlingia, Verticordia, Actinostrobus, Pimelea, Lechenaultia Anigozanthus and many other species.
Many wildflower seeds are dormant and need very specific conditions for germination. The smoke seed primer solution contains a combination of natural substances that overcome dormancy and stimulate seed germination. The degree of germination success varies with the species, but on average, treated seeds give at least twice the number of seedlings that untreated seeds do.
For the average fynbos or protea seed that finds itself in the soil after a flowering season, it would be very difficult to grow successfully with dense fynbos shrubs around it. The fynbos would deprive it of the sun and the nutrients it needs to thrive. However, after a fire there is no shade and the soil is rich in nutrients - ideal conditions for a seedling. How would a seed know when it is safe to germinate because there has been a fire and and the rainy season is about to start? One cue would be getting soaked in smoky water as the first rains disolve the ash on the soil. In 1990 researchers realised that the chemicals in smoke from fynbos fires (and not just the heat of the fire) was responsible for breaking seed dormancy and stimulating germination.
Here I show How to smoke prime seed and make your own smoke primer and how to smoke prime seeds for free and you do not need "fynbos material" to make it as I did my own experiments and get high germination using hard wood branches and leaves and you don't need a smoke tent either.
Many people buy our seeds and have asked if we stock smoke primer discs, these can be expensive and not necessary. I show you how to mimic a bush fire and collect the essence using materials you already have or can find.
What you will need is quite simple:
1) Your seeds
2) A piece of metal screen small enough so the seeds do not fall through
3) A fire proof bowl or metal can don't use ceramic it can crack
4) Some branches and leaves
5) Free draining soil with extra grit (sterlised)
6) Your pots
7) Some water
1) Simply gather some dry branches and leaves, I used eucalyptus but you can use any seed, break these up and place in the can
2) Set the branches and leaves on fire, allow the flames to die down then blow them out so they smoulder
3) Place your seeds on the screen and hold the screen or suspend over the can / bowl but ensure you are NOT roasting the seeds. Subject them to the smoke for as long as possible. Remember it's not a BBQ and ensure your seeds do not fall through the screen
4) Extinguish the embers with water and allow to cool, this will be your smoke essence mixture.
5) Mix this with the soil and plant your seeds, all explained in the video
You might wish to keep your seed moist by making smoke prime water (repeat about procedure without smoking seeds, use cooled water if seeds dry out.
You can also mix ashes from a hard wood fire into the soil, DO NOT use ashes from a BBQ
I hope you enjoy the video, this works every time for smoke priming seeds such as protea and some of the South African species such as the tree gardenia, where indicated we will tell you in our germination instructions if seed needs to be smoke primed.
Making your own DIY smoke primer is great and will save you money
If you wish to make your own smoke prime discs
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This is a godsend, so excited to do this tomorrow!!!!!! 🌱
Just tried your technique for germinating banksia seeds, and today i’ve found one who started germinate. So thank you for this nice video.
Thank you ,this is just the info I needed for germinating kangaroo paw seeds
I'm now gonna do this with Australian quandong (Santalum acuminatum) seeds, as it improves their chances of germination. Thanks for the easy and safe method of smoking the seeds. ;)
ratcat17 I don't know. It might work both ways. Wattle will germinate after having boiling water poured on them and let to sit in that water, and soak overnight. I suppose that heat must last for a good ten minutes. Lucerne tree seeds benefit from hot water. Fynbos species and quandongs are supposed to like the smoke as well as the heat. I haven't done it before, so I gotta wait and see. Even in natural conditions, it could be weeks or months before the first rainfall. So it might be okay to give them heat and store them for awhile. It might still work. All individual species like what they like. Some fruit tree seeds, for example, have to be stratified in the ice box for some months before they will germinate. There's a tree in the Amazon that only blooms when it is struck by lightning. Daffodils won't bloom if the bulbs don't get cold enough in winter. So figure all that out. lol ;)
***** I would've thought that they wouldn't need the heat treatment, since they are a Solanaceae thing, and more like a tomato. But Wiki says "t is a fast-growing shrub that fruits prolifically the year after fire or good rains." Whether that would be due to the heating of seeds, the "pruning" effect of a fire, or potash released into the soil from charcoal, or a combination of all things, including smoke, I wouldn't know. You could try pouring boiling water on some seeds, and soaking them, too. That certainly works for some wattle species. Good luck with your desert raisins, anyway. I hope they grow very well for you. I think I got some from Phoenix Seeds in Snug, Tasmania, years ago. Michael Self, there, is always very helpful. Happy gardening! Delicious bush tucker! :P
Thank you! This is so informative. I was given instructions to do the smoke treatment followed by GA3 soaking for 36 hours. Is the GA3 soak really necessary for Byblis Filifolia seeds?
Hmmm. In Australia we drop Acacia seeds into a pot of hot water for a few minutes. Then let 'em soak overnight. It seems to work okay.
Thanks for the video, I am definitely going to try this
excellent - thank you .
thanks!!!
I.bought some.smoke infused papers...this.sctually seems.easier except i dont have those kinds of plants..are thoe kinds ofnplnts.required ?
Ive watched this video but the kangaroo apple seeds are tiny, they would fall throu even small mesh so I'm still trying to figure out how to do what you did there. Other then that.. good video, thanks
Trynthr paper towel.methofnof sprouting. Im gonnantrynthis with some austrian seeds i ordered where germinstion rates are extreemly low...and chances the dang thing living here are low...so its gonns be an inside plant....i think
do This method works with kerria japonica seeds?
Can't you just put all the burning charcoals into water, then drain the water out and use it to soak your seeds overnight? Eliminates the risk of roasting your seeds. After all, most seeds in the forest gets soaked in the rain water that has absorbed all the smoke chemicals after a bushfire.
seems like a hookah with wood chips would be the easiest / fastest way to do this.
The acacia here are like weeds and only need the hot water treatment or to be scarified then thrown anywhere
tropicalrareseeds same! I soaked mine in hot hot water and 2 out of 5 germinated.