Re: HYB: Seed starting
- Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: Seed starting
- From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:17:41 -0500
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Dana, did you pre-soak the seeds?
Also, what advantages do you see to using perlite vs doing the same
'routine' with paper towel burritos? Can you see any reason not to just
use perlite inside of baggies instead of rigid plastic containers?
I got behind on my soaking/chilling this year and wound up just wrapping
the knotted stockings in damp paper towels as they came out of the
toilet tank, then stuffing the whole damp mass into a big baggie in the
fridge. Then I unknotted stockings and rewrapped in individual damp
paper towel burritos whenever I got around to it.
Your approach sounds like a great way to get a jump start with seeds
from crosses that don't require any pre-chilling to germinate, but it
delays another month without germination to the ones that do need
chilling.
Or maybe being damp at room temperature for a month would shorten the
time needed by the ones that do require chilling? Is that the theory?
--
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