Siberian Pea Shrub

Any info on time to germination? I followed the hot-water regimen outlined on the seed I purchased, but it is going on 3 weeks and no sign of a sprout. Am I being impatient or do you think it should have come up by now?

It seems a long time.

Have a look at my post on cheating with legume scarification and see if that might be of use to you.

Jared, we are in the EXACT same boat. I bought a pack from bountiful gardens, tried the hot water method and it's been almost a month and no signs... Will be trying scarification shortly

I planted quite a few seeds last year, possibly 6 germinated, maybe 20%. I think I got 2 or 3 that survived till fall still looking very spindly. I don't yet know if they survived their first winter.

I planted some seeds but they never came up so I forgot about them. Maybe they're out there in the garden germinating and will eventually come up.

This may not be what you want to hear, but it may be better to just order some bare root plants if you can. I hate to advocate the use of all those fossil fuels for delivery, but *sometimes* it makes more sense to use those resources once to get the design up and running well (at least to me.) About a year ago I implemented a small food forest design on some poorish land for some friends, and we needed a fairly quick growing, edible, nitrogen fixing wind break to protect our future tender plants from the constant wind- siberian pea shrub fit that bill. I tried to germinate seeds 4 times, to no avail. Eventually I broke down and ordered plants from as local a source as I could find. It wasn't my proudest moment, but it allowed the design to start functioning, which was the goal. Either way, best of luck! Let us know how it goes, I recently moved and would love to know how to properly germinate these for my new spot.