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A disaster retrieved...

Hope this is on topic, but I thought list members might take heart from something 
that happened to me a month or so ago. I was trying to gently nurture some hardy 
Geranium seedlings (from a mixed batch) when disaster struck and the prize 
seedling (about three weeks old with two an a bit leaves) of the bunch was 
accidently chopped off just above soil level. 
In the past this led to immediate death, but, after the usual self-depracatory epithets, 
I was so fond of the plant that I tried to re-establish it.
First I made the compost (a peat based seed mix) nice and mushy, then I treated 
the seedling as a cutting minus the rooting hormone.
I misted it daily for a week, but it seemed to be dying. Then I went on holiday and 
left it under a polythene bag.
Now, hey presto! It lives, nay thrives.
So if you're careless like me, _nil desperandum_!

Michael Open
Belfast, NIreland.
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