Claim · model-written summary
Overnight hot-water soaking did not materially improve germination rate or percentage.
- Taxon
- Passion Fruit
Passiflora edulist0 - Treatment
- Soaking of seeds in hot water overnighte0
- Outcome
- rate and percent germinatione0
- Direction
- did not materially helpe0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soaking of seeds in hot water overnight did not materially help in the rate and percent germination.”
t0“Passion Fruit Seeds”
Title
Germination Trials in Passion Fruit Seeds (Passiflora edulis Sims)
J. S. Pruthi; Girdhari Lal Indian Journal of Horticulture 1954
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Fresh passion fruit seeds began germinating 12–15 days after sowing.
- Observation Fresh seed germination finished within another fortnight.
- Observation Fresh passion fruit seeds germinated at about 70–95%.
- Association One-year-old seeds germinated at 23–36%, below fresh seeds.
- Association One-year-old passion fruit seeds germinated more slowly than fresh seeds.
- Observation Passion fruit plants began bearing in about one year.
- Observation The harvested fruit was described as very good quality.
- Recommendation The authors conclude passion fruit can be grown successfully under Mysore conditions.