Again, carried away by the Pepper Tree seeds, I decided to harvest some Black Wattle seeds. I couldn’t find any instructions on how to germinate them, so I’m going to try the old stick-em-in-soil-and-water. I did find out that they are a weed plant in Africa, where they’re grown for tannins to make leather.
Anyway, meet the parents:
I actually ended up with 3 or 4 seeds in each of the punnets, because I don’t want more than 24. Now I wait.
Hmmm… I just noticed this passage from The Conversation article:
These fruits contain many tough, black seeds that can readily germinate if damaged, which breaks the hard seed coat. This explains the high weed potential, but makes them easy to propagate.
Gregory Moore
I didn’t make any particular effort to break the seed. I wonder if that will stop them germinating? Or maybe if I get a small germination rate, would it have been higher if I’d broken some of the seeds?