janwax said:I've never used peroxide in preparing seeds for planting. What is the purpose of it?
Hydrogen peroxide breaks seed dormancy in some plant seeds (if I recall correctly, in other plant seeds where this works it was found not to be related to the extra oxygen as suspected but to some biochemical process). The method is to soak the daylily seeds in hydrogen peroxide diluted with water until they sprout, which is usually fairly quickly, but IMHO stratification (damp chilling) is the better option to speed up and even out germination of daylily seeds that have seed dormancy (seeds that don't germinate immediately when given appropriate germination conditions).
