HYB: speeding up seedlings
- Subject: HYB: speeding up seedlings
- From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:58:15 -0500
The most encouraging thing I learned from Vallette is that heated flats
will accelerate seedling growth. They will grow enough that seedlings
will be big enough to line out in the garden before TB bloom season, and
many/most will be big enough to bloom the following spring.
This is my goal with trying to germinate seeds in the fall. It gets hot
and dry before my spring germinated seedlings get big enough to handle
and then it's hard to keep them growing enough to be big enough to bloom
the following spring. Impossible so far....
So my experiments with the current batch of dried, soaked, chilled for 4
months seeds will be to try to get them to germinate in March, then keep
them warm somehow - probably with a mini-greenhouse made of plastic and
Reemay & lined with water bottles.
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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