germination test results
The results of this experiment may be of no use because of some unplanned variables. I may have overcooked these with too much h2o2. Once they dried after soaking, the hulls looked bleached even on the healthy seedlings. Possibly as a result of this, all of them needed help removing membranes and hulls.
4x guava f f2 - 4 / 4
3x guava b f2 - 0 / 3
These all looked like good seeds, but after soaking, two of the seeds actually looked green and unripe. They were planted like that and never sprouted. it could be the seeds were just too immature, or this may have been the result of too much peroxide.
The third sprouted, but grew in a loop. I have just removed its membrane to open the cotyledons and replanted. It might still pull through. it would be worth keeping as a female for meds, but it has required so much assistance I would not breed with this one.
1x 2017 pink lebanese - 0 / 1 This was a test to see if a seed that had been smoked in a bowl of flower was still viable. It produced a tap root but didn’t make it any further than that. Not sure if this was impacted by the extra peroxide.
2x 2020 purple lebanese - 1 / 2
2x guava f2 B#1 ix - 0 / 2 Too fresh. There may have been some bacterial or fungal bloom around the seeds, or it may have just been waterlogged remnants of the membranes that form between the seed and calyx. I overcompensated and added too much peroxide.