Poor and irregular germiniition of large cardamom seed become a problem of
nursery growers and recalcitrant nature and dormancy are believed to be the
factors responsible with it. An experiment was carried for three consecutive years
to identify the seed viability period stored in different conditions with different seed
moisture level using tetrazolium test. The ·results showed that the seed remain
viable (>80%) even dried to less than 11% moisture level in electric oven. There
was non-significant difference in seed viability stored under refrigerator and
ambient condition till 150 days after seed drying by both methods. However, effect
of storage duration was prominent (p>.001) where viability was not statistically
different between 15 and 60 days after drying. The result has clearly proved that
large cardamom seed has orthodox behavior of storage despite farmers' notion of
recalcitrant nature of the seed. In addition to th(s finding, light has been shed to the
other basic information of large cardamom seed.

Poor and irregular germiniition of large cardamom seed become a problem of
nursery growers and recalcitrant nature and dormancy are believed to be the
factors responsible with it. An experiment was carried for three consecutive years
to identify the seed viability period stored in different conditions with different seed
moisture level using tetrazolium test. The ·results showed that the seed remain
viable (>80%) even dried to less than 11% moisture level in electric oven. There
was non-significant difference in seed viability stored under refrigerator and
ambient condition till 150 days after seed drying by both methods. However, effect
of storage duration was prominent (p>.001) where viability was not statistically
different between 15 and 60 days after drying. The result has clearly proved that
large cardamom seed has orthodox behavior of storage despite farmers' notion of
recalcitrant nature of the seed. In addition to th(s finding, light has been shed to the
other basic information of large cardamom seed.