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I am trying to plant job's tears, but unfortunately they are not germinating yet.
What I have done so far:
The beads are only a year old.
I have some outside, and some on a damp cotton inside. I have just scarify some of the ones that are on the damp cotton.
They have been about 10 days planted.
The ones that are inside on the damp cotton are changing in color from gray to black.
Do you know how long will it take them to start germinating?
Hi George, I don't know the germination time off the top of my head. Jobs Tears does take long to germinate, if I recall. I have some seeds sown now inside that I'm waiting on too, and they are taking long. I also scarified the seed. I'll go check my garden journal from last year for my records as far as germination goes and will get back to you asap. Be patient, don't give up...
I regret tossing our plant from last year, because I think it may have possibly regrown. The root clump seemed to make it through the winter and may have still been viable when I was cleaning things up this spring; we had it growing in a pot.
OK, I checked my journal. Last year my seeds germinated in 18 days and they were not scarified. I only planted a few seeds this year and did scarify them, like you did, and it has been 47 days and nothing. I'm going to plant a few more seeds and try again without nicking them; yours may still come up since it has only been 10 or so days.
There is an interesting post in DG Plant Files with a technique for germinating the seeds by just potting them in a very moist environment without scarifying. Check out the second post by 'WUVIE': http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1868/
