There's no telling... I bought some "low germination" seeds from Baker Creek one year. The strawberries appeared not to germinate at all. 3 years later. 7 identical strawberry seedlings appeared in that pot. I guess they needed double cold stratification? The other was their Queen of Malinalco Tomatillo. I tossed all the seeds in one pot in July when the weather was already in the high 90's. I had 100% germination and had to cull a bunch due to lack of places to transplant all of them. I'll bet Baker Creek didn't germination test them at 95+ degrees. One of my swap acquired lavender morning glories popped after 2 winters in a raised bed where I had discarded potting soil from failed starter pots.
This year I finally cleaned out of a refrigerator where I had put swap seeds 2 1/2 years ago for cold stratification, shortly before I got a finger crushed/fractured, requiring 3 surgeries and 9 months of therapy. It was sad. The daylilies and even one packet of irises had sprouted and died long ago. I set the baggies on a shelf, and after 2 weeks, I remembered to dump the vermiculite into a planter. I spotted something white in the dumped vermiculite and realized that it was a root coming out of a Crape Myrtle seed:
Like a Phoenix from the ashes...
