Persimmon Seeds

I mentioned yesterday how much I enjoy seeing Persimmons in the fall and especially all the wildlife they attract. I’ve also mentioned how much I enjoy a good experiment of some wild idea.

Let me put the caveat here that this is just me messing around on something. You can definitely find much better information on the process elsewhere.

Persimmon seeds have a hard outer coating that as I’ve read will break down over time but needs the process of scarification to sprout quicker. (yeah I know, I’m nerding out here) The best way for scarification to happen is through the natural process of digestion from animals that eat the Persimmons. The stomach acid of the animal breaks down the coating then the seeds get passed through the system – yuck! This time of year you can find Persimmon seeds outside in a certain medium (yeah that one). From here (I’ll let you guess where) you can take the seeds and stratify or chill them. Of course you can manually scarify the seeds or damage the outer coating with a file or something. This is my experiment that I’ll be trying this year, I’m going to try planting seeds that have been both naturally and manually scarified. The picture below are of my too cups of seeds for this test (you can guess which is which). I’m going to let the seeds soak in water a bit to clean them up before putting them in zip lock bags to stratify in the refrigerator, sources I’ve read say the seeds need 60 days to stratify. From my past experience roots will emerge from the seeds as they chill in the refrigerator.

I’ll be sure to update on this later.

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