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Gabe15 · 03-01-2007, 11:07 PM

From my own experiments, I have found that a dry seed will be completely saturated by soaking in water with no scarification. I used to do this before embryo rescue to make it easier to cut the seed in half. The seeds would crumble and fly all over the place when dry, but after a few nights soaking (with no scarification), they were always completely moist all the way through. Im not saying that scaring the seed has no effect, but I would tend to think it does not aid in helping water enter the seed as it seems to be able to penetrate the seed coat just fine without any help.

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