Schumacher general,decent presentation on how to treat seeds is a worthwhile read...suggest a minimum/maximum thermometer in areas where one decides to stratify... http://www.treeshrubseed.com/treatingseed.htm Here is a link that might be useful: schumacher

Alicia, around here you can buy bags of long fiber dried sphagnum moss at garden centers -- I've even seen it at Lowe's, too. That's what I use. I just rub it through a strainer, the ordinary kind with a handle you can buy in the kitchen tools section of a grocery store. It's the same moss as florists use, just dried. If the potting mix stays too moist or drainage isn't sufficient, add perlite. Don't worry about the seemingly big size of the perlite relative to the tiny seed. The sphagnum moss (or live moss, like Mainegrower uses) gets the seed going and then it roots down easily into the medium below. It seems to me azalea seedlings likes a lot of oxygen in the soil and not too much wet. Once they get beyond a certain size it becomes less critical. The other thing to do is make sure your containers have as many drain holes as you can reasonably punch in the bottom. I use an ice pick and put maybe 20 sizable holes in the bottom of a 3" x 5" container. You want the water to flow freely out of the bottom. Soeur

You can also check @ Garden Shop of Homewood. She had a wide variety of shrubs, bushes, all kinds of stuff last time i went up there. I actually got some GREAT deals - 50% off, at the end of the season You can also always call the different nurseries and ask if they carry them. Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Shop of Homewood

I've never tried them but I seem to remember Hal Massie saying he sowed them directly on top of damp peat moss. He may have covered this with glass, I don't remember.