Gentiana purpurea

[TheOnionMan]

No, the styrofoam flat is merely a flat... a rectangular pot, I fill it with normal loamy compost (no peat in my mix), and sow the seeds on top of the compost (looking just like my peat flat shown above).

[Hkind]

I can offer fresh seed of G purpurea.
Older seed is often not germinating. I treat my seed with GA-3 and have germination within two weeks (room temperature).

Gentiana purpurea should be planted as Young plants in deep, rich  soil.

[Hoy]

The seed came from forumist Trond Hoy in Norway.  I believe the G. purpurea seed was from garden grown plants, originally grown from plants found native in Norway.

Didn't notice this thread before today!

Mark is right. The seed is from my "garden" (an seminatural meadow) at my mountain cabin (950m altitude) but the plants originate from different localities in S Norway. I have collected seed from different populations to enhance genetic diversity.

I disperse the seed in the meadow and they germinate well. Naturally G. purpurea grows in meadows, heath, juniper shrubbery and montane birch woods in both moist and rather dry situations.

[Anthony Darby]

I would treat them like small seed trays and fill them with compost.