Please recall that at the 2019 CPC National Meeting small groups met to discuss the idea of creating Horticulture and Germination Best Practices for Rare Plant Conservation. The groups felt that best practice guidelines on these topics are definitely warranted. If you would like to be part of the conversation as these are being developed, please be sure to sign up on the Germination Testing and Propagation Category. I will be periodically posting intriguing questions related to these and as always, I welcome your valuable feedback! Also know that there is a need for more photographs and more videos on these areas, so feel free to send them photos and video ideas to Joyce.
We’ve just hired a new position at MoBOT focused on viability testing our seed bank collections via germination tests. We’re definitely interested in learning more about this topic!