ISHS Acta Horticulturae 701: XII International Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline
GERMINATION OF APRICOT SEEDS |
| Author: | L. Kramarenko |
| Keywords: | sowing, soil, stone, storage, influence, crops |
| Abstract:
Factors influencing apricot seeds germination have been studied in Moscow since 1984. Seeds (stones) were sown in open ground at the second half of summer – in autumn. The revealed factors influencing seeds germination can be arranged according to their importance in the following row: the date of sowing; weather conditions through the whole year (from seeds setting through their germination; soil humidity; structure and nutritiousness; depth of sowing; seed ripeness; genotype peculiarity. Seedlings from seeds of our own reproduction regularly show much better survival as compared with seedling from seeds from other regions. | |
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