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Originally Posted by Fusion_power
It is variety dependent, but quite a few of these type seedlings will eventually produce a growing tip. The plant is viable, but usually too late to be a prime garden candidate. I have resurrected quite a few varieties by this method from old seed.
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I planted some "Heshpole" from 2008 that exhibited a lot of this, and out of curiosity, got about 4/50 of the Fusion f5 from 2004 to germinate after a bleach soak. All 4 of the f5's grew into "deadheads", but one of them has just this week offerred a little sprout from between the (now dying) cotyledons.
I assumed it was the bleach soak damaging the tiny baby in the seed. I tried a few with a Peroxide treatment (different variety...Lycoprea 2007) and achieved a similar result, but those seemed to sprout a growing tip after only about 10 days.
Lycoprea is a very early, small rugose-potato-leaf variety that offers ping-pong-ball pink fruits. I put them in hanging baskets and gave them away to friends and family. All are blossoming, and one has set fruit.
I was very pleased to get a half-dozen viable starts.
Now that I have lost the point, perhaps it wasn't the bleach or peroxide soaks damaging seed...but just seed on the edge of inviability sped along by the soak.
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