Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
It actually works pretty well and in some cases you can bypass double or triple dormancy (as in cold then warm then cold etc.) that way but you don't want to do that to a hard coat seed unless you take the coat completely off first because sometimes they germinate so fast and hard the seed coat never has time to soften up and they literally get squished to death. Sometimes I just soak a paper towel or cotton ball with GA then break the seed coat of non hard coat seeds or remove the 'kernel' from a hard coat and lay it on the GA saturated whatever. That works best for flattish seeds like Luffa.
One thing you must do once they start to germinate is rinse off the seedling in water to remove as much as the GA as you can and put it a non GA treated substrate otherwise can elongate too much and compromise the integrity of the plant as a whole.
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