Re: Brock 1006x941 update
Steve
I'm fairly new at this but I germinated all 6 of mine between 2 damp
paper towels and then placed them in a tupperware container in the laundry
room. 24 hour later I had good strong seedlings (seedlets?) good luck Mike
in anchorage
Tanner, Gordon L wrote:
> steve-
> I was just looking for some seed germination stuff , can't find it
> ...??? i thought i had read about it somewhere. oh well.
> i am wondering if you soaked your seeds to long?
> I soaked my seeds for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
> here is what worked for me. (after my first tragic failure ... see "my
> story" in the archives)
> after soaking the seeds I got a white paper towel wet and squezed out
> the excess water. folded the paper towel in half and cut it so it would
> fit in a zip lock baggy. put the seed inbetween the two halfs of the
> paper towel, pushed the air out and zipped the baggy. then put it about
> 8 inches underneath my desk lamp. the kind that has has an elbow type
> joint and can swivel around and move up and down to most any postion.
> it has two bulbs - the center one is a 40 watt regular type bulb and the
> outside is one is a circular flourecent bulb. you can check to see if
> the little root has come out by holding up the baggy in front of a
> light. that way you don't have to open it and pull apart the two half
> of the paper towel. after you see your root then you get your small pot
> ready, i use 4 inch plastic ones. have the all soil in the pot moist
> but not super wet. then carefully take out the paper towel and unfold
> it. gingerly plant you seed in the soil. then i put a sandwich baggy -
> which happens to be the same size as my pot and put it over the top.
> then i leave it under the regular bulb. when the seed grows out of the
> ground and the seed cover falls off or is helped off when needed, then
> i switch to the flourecent bulb. when the first real leaf shows up then
> i transplant it outside.
> well that was over kill. you probably knew most, if not all of what i
> just said.
> anyway thought it might help you out some.
> good luck.
> Gordon Tanner
> Maple Valley, WA
>
> >Well, niether of the two 1006x941 seeds germinated! It is weird. I have
> one >more backup seed that I will try to germinate in a moist paper
> towel. The >others were soaked overnight, and planted in the ground. I
> don't know what >happened, but I dug them up after 5 days and there is
> no sign of germination. >Yikes!!!!
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