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[Image description: roughly twenty American Persimmon seeds show off their taproots in varying stages of development while resting in my palm awaiting their turn to be transplanted]

I'm really excited that these germinated! We got a notice of poor germination tests from the folks we got the seeds from, so they shipped another ounce of seed out to us but far too late to let them naturally stratify over winter. So these bad Larry's got to stratify in our seed fridge through April.

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[โ€“] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry. I read this as American Pessimism Germinating. I was all in.

So I'm glad that was not the case and that your seeds germinated! Congrats!

[โ€“] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

If they hadn't germinated, that misread title would have been spot on!