Growing Capers From Seed

Pre treatment

Caper seeds need to be soaked in luke warm water for 48 hours before anything else, then they need to be stratified at 4 Deg C for at least 4 weeks.  See the post on stratification here

Sowing

Sow the seeds in a good quality seed mix in pots covering the seed with about 4mm of the mix.  Water well and then seal in a plastic bag and place somewhere warm and bright until they germinate.  At 20 C they will germinate in 6 - 8 weeks, at 25 C it may take a couple of weeks less.

Growing on

Once they are large enough to handle, pot them singly in 7cm pots at first, stepping up in size as the plant grows.