Seeds and bulbs

Does soaking seeds and bulbs in water and liquid fertilizer overnight promote better growth?

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#1 Comment By BushDoctor On 04/04/2018 @ 1:09 pm

Some types can be soaked in water. Most bulbs will not want this, however.

I would also not recommend adding fertilizer to the seed water. This will, potentially, burn any seed roots before they emerge. The seed shell (cotelydons) will container any nutrients that a plant needs for the first little bit of its life, before developing photo synthetic leaves.

I would make sure that the specific seed that you are trying to germinate will tolerate being submerged, as some do, and some don’t.

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