This experiment was conducted to find out tea seed germination by six tea seed picking periods from September 5 to November 25 at intervals of twenty days. Low temperature treatment did cold moist prechilling storage for 30 days at 0, 5, 10˚C and then germinated at 20˚C. The normal temperature germinated respectively at 15, 20, 25 and 30˚C. Tea seed optimum germination temperature was between 20˚C~25˚C. Cold moist prechilling effect(Storage 30 days at 5, 10˚C) was not only shorter germination period but germination percentage was increased too. In case of doing cold moist prechilling, during the period of September 25 to November 5 between ±20 days from October 15 of optimum picking period could expect high rate of the germination more than 90%.
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