RE: HYB: Seed starting
- Subject: RE: [iris] HYB: Seed starting
- From: "Dana Brown" d*@llano.net
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 23:02:27 -0600
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Sorry, here is how it goes
1. fill the square containers mushrooms come in with perlite
2. soak the perlite over night with water
3. pour off the extra water
4. plant the seeds about 1/2 an inch deep
5. wrap a vegetable bag from the grocery store around the planted, labeled
seedlings and secure with a rubber band
6. place them on a shelf out of sunlight for 30 days
7. then into the fridge for 30 days and so on
8. once the seeds sprout, I tickle them out of the perlite and plant them
into potting soil in the greenhouse
Dana Brown
AIS Region 17 Judges Training Chairperson
Director TBIS
AIS, ASI, MIS, RIS, SPIS, TBIS
Malevil Gardens
Lubbock, TX
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
ddbro@llano.net
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of laurief
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:30 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: Seed starting
>Well, we just completed our 30 days out and were moving the
>seeds into the fridge for their first cold spell when we discovered that 6
>of the 18 batches of seedlings had some germination and three of the six
are
>arilbred babies!
Congratulations, Dana. Would you please tell us how you handled the
germinants? Are these seeds planted in pots with the soaked perlite, or
is the soaked perlite loose in plastic bags. Did you remove the
germinants before putting the rest of the perlite & seeds into the fridge
for their first chill cycle?
Curious minds want to know.
Laurie
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http://www.geocities.com/lfandjg/
http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/shadowood/irisintro.html
USDA zone 3b, AHS zone 4 - northern MN
acidic clay soil
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