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Old July 3, 2015   #22
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Originally Posted by JamesL View Post
Hot water treatment is tricky. I would also not suggest it unless you have a PID controller and the ability to set up a proper hot water bath.
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.corne...Treatment.html

That being said it is useful to have in your bag of tricks if you think a seed source is questionable.
The link is good ...and the awareness of seed bourne pathogen internal that heat treatment fixes is interesting ...........does anybody know of some dreaded pathogen that for some reason will not be fixed with the standard heat treatment of 50C/ 122F @25 minutes ???
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