Effect of Seed Size and Pretreatment Methods on Germination of Albizia lebbeck

Table 1

Effect of pretreatment methods and size of Albizia lebbeck seeds on germination at eight (8) weeks after sowing.

Seed size	Germination percentage (%) for different presowing treatment methods
	H2SO4	Nicking	Hot water	Cold water	Control	Mean
Large	30.0	100	67.5	22.5	22.5	48.5
Medium	54.5	80.0	43.8	28.8	21.2	45.7
Small	49.5	71.2	55.0	10.0	20.0	41.1
Mixture	37.5	70.0	50.0	41.0	33.8	46.5
Mean	42.9^b	80.3^a	54.1^b	25.6^c	24.4^c

Note. Means with different superscripts within a row differ (𝑃<0.001).
SE = 0.243.
LSD = 15.7.
CV = 11.1%.