Seed Collecting

I've taken some grapevine cuttings, but I decided to try growing some from seed too. After doing some research, I've cleaned the fresh grape seeds (taken from purple fruits that had begun to dry up). Most of the seeds sank but I did have a couple of floaters which were disgarded. The cleaned seeds were placed in a moist film canister (I filled the canister with water, then dumped the water out). I plan to leave them in fridge until late winter.

I also found some black purple coneflower heads. After seperating the seeds from the chaff, I think I'll just leave these in a paper bag and see what happens next spring. I've heard from several people who grew them without stratification.