Re: Re: CULT: Soil mix for seeds
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Soil mix for seeds
- From: s*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:44:34 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/01 5:38:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
neilm@charter.net writes:
<< Sounds like a solution to a problem I've had with seeds floating up
out of their bed following a heavy downpour. >>
Neil, another thing that helps with this is to water the pots (plus soil)
well and let the soil compact some BEFORE planting the seed. It helps a lot.
I use BACTO, another premix which is available at the local nursery. Pots
that work well, for me, are mum pots. I believe they are 8 inch, anyway the
size that was traditionally used for potted mums. I buy them used at the
local nursery.
On another thread . . . on occasions that I have been unable to plant
seedlings the year they sprouted . . . I have left them setting in the pots
over winter, often in a more protected spot, without much damage. A few
weaker ones will perish, but that is considered a good thing. It might not
work in harsher climates. You might try burying the pots and mounding with
leaves etc.
Still another . . . I don't go through the holding tank, refreigerator,
freezer routine. My memory is too poor. But, once the seed are in the pots,
I water them well, and try to water again every day for a week or so. OR
until I forget!
Betty in BG KY where yet another Immortality child, maybe that should be
grandchild, is putting up a stalk. (No previous rebloom) Always good to see.
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