Soaking seeds in tea

lakshmi · April 3, 2007

I planted a few seeds each of around 15 varieties of tomatoes and two of them have still not germinated after 18 days. On the 29th (5 days ago) I planted a second batch of the two after soaking them in dilute tea (regular orange pekoe) for 24 hours. I had almost 100% germination when I checked this morning. The only difference was the soaking of the seeds so I can only conclude that that is what made the difference.

I have no clue if soaking in water would give the same result since I've never tried that.

Hope this proves helpful to someone else out there

Lakshmi

April 3, 2007	#1
lakshmi Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Montreal Posts: 78	Soaking seeds in tea I planted a few seeds each of around 15 varieties of tomatoes and two of them have still not germinated after 18 days. On the 29th (5 days ago) I planted a second batch of the two after soaking them in dilute tea (regular orange pekoe) for 24 hours. I had almost 100% germination when I checked this morning. The only difference was the soaking of the seeds so I can only conclude that that is what made the difference. I have no clue if soaking in water would give the same result since I've never tried that. Hope this proves helpful to someone else out there Lakshmi __________________ My dogs have me well trained