Originally Posted by varig8

Interesting.............although it conflicts with my personal experience with scarification of hard shelled seed. Always the scarified Musa seed has germinated within 2-3 weeks time---with VIABLE fresh seed. Some of the seed which was not scarified germinated months later when sown at the same time. I wonder why I have such a good percentage of quicker germinating seed when the information in that last link states that it makes no difference? PS I ALWAYS soak my seed for at least 2 days whether I file them or not. I think you could find conflicting information from many sources. I bought some dried lotus pods in a floral shop and removed the seed from the dry flower head. I nicked some seed and not others. The nicked seed germinated the next day. The ones I didnt nick never did sprout, I waited for about a month to 6 weeks and threw them away. I will continue nicking my seeds because it works for me. Maybe seed are psychic and they like me.