Re: HYB: surviving seedlings
In a message dated 11/17/2006 4:49:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
lmann@lock-net.com writes:
>>Anner, you asked a while back how many seedlings I have or something
along those lines.
Yes, I did, in the context of suggesting an alternate means of dealing with
the "really tiny ones," as you styled them, that otherwise would have
required much pot coddling and such.
I suggested that traditional coldframes, or hotframes, might provide an
alternative environment for late developing--i.e., really tiny--- seedlings.
Really tiny seedlings of all sorts of things have been protected by gardeners in
frames for centuries. Just transplant them into the nursery beds within the
frames instead of into the pots into which they would otherwise have been
transplanted. Think plottage.
<<Only 8500 to go to reach the one in 10,000 worth introducing threshold <g>
Well, on the one hand that really sounds ridiculously high--I mean, really--
and on the other hand, to judge by some of the stuff being introduced,
perhaps it is actually too low.
When I think about odds, I always think about that post McAllister made way
back when in which she listed the color pattern results from one cross. Might
have been one pod. I could not find the post just now, and I wish I could.
Do you recall it? See if you can turn it up. In any case, her list of color
combinations in the progeny left me with the distinct impression that, plan as
one will, in the final analysis, much of success is a crap shoot.
Roll 'em!
Cordially,
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA
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