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Véronique Macrelle:
I received some rare but old seeds (from 2015!): Codonopsis bomiensis seeds.
They will be sown in the spring but as soon as I received them, I wanted to do a viability test. I tested 10 seeds with a few special treatments to try and ‘wake them up’.
Result: 5 seeds out of 10 grew well.
 A sixth germinated, but seems to be dwarfed, and will probably never produce a mature plant.
 50% germination after 9 years in storage! I think that's an excellent result. ;D

the seedlings are growing so well that i feel obliged to pamper them under an artificial summer. but i'm not sure what to do next (a rest or not before the summer of 2025?).

as usual, some Violas have germinated at the same time (jumping seeds in the soil) but I've already found that they make good companion plants, especially for Codonospis which like a leafy environment (of course, climbers!) and also because they attract aphids to them (I still have spontaneous generations of aphids).

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