Hosta seedlings hot frame./Pre sprouting hosta seeds.
Has anyone tried starting hosta seedlings in a small hot frame using
electric soil heating cables?
How about pre-sprouting hosta seeds to get them up and going faster?
I use to grow vegetables starts in this fashion and it worked great. I would
germinate the seeds and broadcast them in the hot frame and cover them with
1/8 inch or so of pro-mix. The seedlings would be up in a couple of days
which gave them a big start over the weed seeds that were soon to follow.
Dan
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From: Ransom Lydell <ranbl@netsync.net>
To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Hosta Questions!
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From: <halinar@open.org>
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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: Hosta Questions!
Joe
that is why I have started to be much more selective in what I take the time
to grow. more and more, I grow most ly my crosses. They do give me a much
higher percentage of "keepers" than growing "open pollinated" For many year
I grew around 20,000 seedlings, each year, and ended up keeping about 100
plants for further observation. That has changed I now grow around 5000 each
year, and still have around 100 to "keep"
Thanks
Ran
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>
> I agree with you that you have to make some decisions about what seeds
This past fall I only picked up some seeds of Abiqua
> Elephant Ears and ventricosa 'Aureomaculata' as I got interesting
> results from both of them the previous year.
>
> Joe Halinar
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