Transcription of Seed Testing Standards Manual - Alberta
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Alberta seed Testing Standards 21/12/2016 Contents Introduction .. 1 seed Testing Facilities Approval Process .. 1 Reporting Results .. 1 seed sampling .. 2 seed Moisture .. 4 Moisture Content .. 4 Equilibrium Relative Humidity .. 5 Purity Analysis .. 7 Thousand seed Weight (TSW) .. 8 Germination 9 Equipment Calibration .. 15 Literature Cited .. 16 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Minimum weights for submitted samples and working samples for purity analysis by most common tree species.. 3 Table 2: Acceptable reduced sample sizes for moisture content Testing on very small seedlots.
trier/sampling stick or sampling by hand to achieve cheap but effective sampling. Primary samples taken by hand should be taken from the middle of the container if one sample is taken, the top & bottom if 2 samples are taken, the top/middle/bottom if 3 samples are taken, etc. to ensure a representative composite sample.
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