This is a message from Randall Currie to those working with the MN1095 seeds I made last year:

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The % germ on Bills data is an est. for all but the MN 1095 X Cab. Franc he counted his two seed lots and got 20 both times and assumed all lots were 20 seed, I talked to cliff and he said he did not count the seed but EST. About 20 or so. If you assume Cliff can guess plus or minus 5 seed I used 15 for a low seed lot and 20 for high?? To give an est. range. This guess tends to support what John and I recorded based on firm counts.

There is excellent agreement among 4 seed lots and 3 separate researchers that MN 1095 X Cab. Franc had from 57.1 to 50% Germ. With very low variation. Both Bill and I had MN 1095 X Pinot Gris as the lowest germ seed lot. John and Bill got very similar results for Man 1095 X Landot noir.

I think there is a solid dose of human error in my survival numbers. I germinate in Petri dish and transplant to light bank in basement. If it is warm the furnace does not come on and basement was colder than normal coupled with a long week end missed watering. Most deaths were due to trapped Cotyledons. John reported same. Bill was test was done under much more controlled conditions with Support staff helping. I invite comment of other trends seen.

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