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Hello tomaturge,

thanks for the tip and the link to the paper.

Your last sentence actually points to the biggest problem with Amophophallus seeds, namely that you should get fresh seeds as soon as possible - because with a few exceptions, araceen seeds are hardly storable (I recently reported on an unpleasant example: Sources of supply for aron rods)

Nevertheless, I would not consider the article to be too meaningful, because
- it is not explicitly shown how the seeds were cut with the nail clipper
- in results and discussion it is pointed out that in none of the seed trays 100 % of the seeds are germinating, nevertheless the graph for nail clipper and H2SO4 shows 100 % and no standard deviation; that can't really be true
- the evaluation after three weeks may simply be too early to say that the other variants are worse in terms of the number of growing plants after e.g. 6 weeks.

I have never filed or cut amorphophallus seeds or anything like that; the danger of rot would be too great for me.

Semen sterilization is also not conclusive for me, because e.g. in tissue culture, alcohol treatment is done first to remove waxes and fats and hypo-chorit treatment (Cholrox) follows after that; in the case of the latter, unfortunately, the indication of the concentration (whether undiluted or diluted) is also missing.

How exactly do you do that with cutting the seeds, tomaturge?

Happy growing, Bernhard.

Thanks for the interesting link !

Happy germinating, Bernhard.