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Jan 28, 2014 2:58 PM CST
Name: Jacquie (JB) Berger
Wrightstown, New Jersey (Zone 6b)

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Here are the seedpods I found on our sweet shrubs here on the farm. Michael Lindsey, Venus and Spicebush are the names of our shrubs. Those are the seeds that were distributed among the 8 who are doing our little experiment. They are all Native seeds....no Chinese.

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My first lesson was about to begin. How do I get these seeds out of the pods? The instructions I got were very accurate which included the fact that you remove them carefully so they do not fly all over the place while doing it. The pods were so hard I had to use a small wooden hammer. With the help of @starlight1153 I removed the seeds from the pods and put some of them in soil in plastic containers in an old wooden planter, in full sun. They are protected from the animals in the wooden planter. They tell me this is called Winter Sow.

The others I placed in moist sphagnum moss in individual plastic containers and put in the back of the refrigerator to stratify until I am told by my 8 instructors when I can plant them outside. This is called Stratification.
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The balance of the seeds were divided and mailed to the participants.....................They are: Starlight1153,quietyard,greene,Gilli,poisondartfrog,Deebie,jonnasudenius,and a friend of Greene's named Phyllis. As I stated previously, these ladies have agreed to teach me as we go along how to germinate these seeds, as well as document their activities so we have it all together and eventually we can share it all with others.

That brings us up to today.
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