Re: Thanks and more thanks for the Lousiana pages
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- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:09:31 -0600
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James,
Glad you liked the Louisiana species pages.
It is a puzzle why the seeds won't germinate in your area. Your plan to
put the pots in a coaster of water might be okay, but I do offer one caution
from my experience. First, I never did anything like that over the
years. I just planted the seeds in pots of soil about 3/4 an inch below
the surface and then tried to keep them watered. That was a nuisance and
sometimes for one reason or another they got drier than they should have.
I had pretty good germination, but always thought it could be better, and
thought that more consistent moisture was the answer. So about 4-5 years
ago, I placed all the pots of seeds in kiddie pools where there was constant
water. I probably allowed the water level to be too high (perhaps five
inches), but the seed pots stayed saturated and many of the seeds rotted.
A few germinated on schedule, and more the following year, but overall it was a
real failure compared to the old method. Altogether, it was not an
experiment I would repeat. If I were to do it again, however, I would not
allow more than an inch of water to remain in the containers.
A few years back, Steve Shepard wrote and article
for the SLI newsletter about his experiment with floating seeds in water.
No soil, just floating the seeds in water. He got germination that way,
but if I recall correctly a lot of it was late or second year germination.
In my experiment, the seeds were under saturated soil. In Steve's, they
were exposed to the air, at least on one side, as they floated around. The
lesson I take from this is that the seeds need to stay moist, but cannot be
allowed to be totally saturated all the time.
Patrick
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