Germination percentages were generally low, ranging from 0% to 32.5% by 20 weeks after sowing.
The 96-h stream-soaked pretreated seed demonstrated superiority, followed by seed pretreated
by container soaking for 96 h and alternate drying and wetting for I week. Scorching led
to no germination at all, whereas stream soaking for 72, 48 and 24 h achieved only about 3%
germination each.