As I was collecting seeds from pods, I noticed that one of the seeds had germinated inside the pod. So of course I sowed it using my styrofoam cup method along with 5 other seeds from the same pod. I then decided to sow several crosses in their respective cups (none of which had cold stratification). All seeds were recently collected from the pod parent. What is interesting is that this particular cross germinated 5 out of 6 seeds so far. A different cross germinated 1 seed out of 6 and the other 4 cups have had zero germination at this point.
Now my data keeping is the pits this year, so I do not know the day I actually sowed all these seeds.
But it had to have been only a week or so ago because the one seed had already germinated when I planted it in the cup.
I had decided to see if they needed cold stratification to germinate quickly. (Most seed crosses apparently do.) But this particular cross does not. The cross is CCC03 x Big Snowbird. Now the interesting thing is that Big Snowbird (pollen parent) is not listed as to whether it is an ev, sev, or dor, but it's genetics has a variety of parents that cover all bases. The pod parent is CCC03 (Laughing Clown (ev) x Instant Graffiti (dor)) which has a mix of ev and dor genes.
So what I am wondering is ....
If the parents have ev in them, does that mean that any seeds produced might germinate right away? Does that also mean that the seedling will be ev?
Has there been a study on this?
Here is the cup showing the 5 out of 6 that germinated right away. One of them you can see is a white seedling (which will likely die):