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A Beginner's Guide to Stratification

How many times have you tried to sow a fruit seed and actually seen it germinate? I know, I know, as a naive kid even I wondered if I sow an apple seed in a pot it would grow into a tree the next morning. Every time I would try to do that my mom would tell me that it doesn't work that way. Yet whenever I asked her why she thought so, she never had an answer. Looking back at it now I understand how all of us are aware of the idea of stratification just superficially when it can be so important to people wanting to try gardening out but being clueless about where to begin. Many of us also prefer to just buy already germinated plants and skipping the whole patience requiring phase of waiting everyday to see the seed sprout. Most of us also give up on taking care of it before it has even started growing, thinking that we failed when in reality sprouting just takes a lot of time that no one is interesting in giving.  Yet if you think about it, of course there should be a basic guide on