HYB:germination
- Subject: HYB:germination
- From: K*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:40:30 EDT
Once again, I am getting a low germination rate . . . thank goodness! Last
spring I only got about 50 percent germination. We had a lovely spring and
early summer so I was able to transplant all that were large enough.
Anything too small to survive, after all they weren't here where I could keep
a good eye on them, went back into one pot per cross.
Everything grew well and some will remember how thrilled I was when a couple
of stalks showed up last fall. They were on the end of the bed I'd cleaned
out. As in removed all the tall weeds & pulled all the grass. When the bad
freezes happened a few weeks ago, everything I'd cleaned out was wiped out
and about 70% of the end I hadn't cleaned. Anything that didn't die outright
will take forever to recover. I checked again Friday.
Well, that was a sad sight! I was ready to chuck my hybridizing kit in
dumpster and throw all my pots away . . . or better yet . . . fill them all
with dahlias! For about 2 hours. Then I went out and kicked those pots from
last year, and counted the seed that sprouted in them this year. Another 20%
or so have sprouted! Thank goodness I kept them! As I was poking around the
pots something caught my eye. In one of the pots where I'd put back the
small ones there is a stalk reaching skyward. It's my least favorite cross
and it's jamed in a pot with a dozen or so others, but what the hey. It's a
bloom from the 2000 crop, when I thought there was none. My favorite cross
will have to be remade, no new seedlings.
Betty Wilkerson from Southcentral KY . . . Zone 6 . . . sometimes.
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