Re: PROPAGATION DATA BASES
- Subject: Re: PROPAGATION DATA BASES
- From: A* A*
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:19:32 -0600
Hello Paul,
That's an interesting link. I'm right up the road from you in Minneapolis
by the way. I start about 50 flats of seeds/plants a year... I should
stop by this year sometime.
I've found it quite time consuming to untangle seedling roots in 4 or 5"
pots for transplanting, so this year I'm trying 128 cell plug trays. I hope
it will be faster in 3 or 4 weeks when I start moving seedlings to
flats. I've been using a peat growing mix with little to no added
vermiculite. Perhaps a good, very loose (lots of fine milled vermiculite)
would work better but I've been trying to save a little with peat mix. Do
the roots really come apart OK? Your pictures show some pots that look
like they'd be very hard to separate in my experience. Also, some suffer
transplant shock and root damage from tearing them apart. They're sometimes
very delicate to handle quickly.
Actually, last year I couldn't find a big bag (8 or 12 cu. ft.) of fine
vermiculite anywhere around here. Not Lyndale Garden, Linder's, Bachman's
, ... hence the growing mix.
-Allan
At 10:35 AM 3/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a small one at:
>
><http://hardyplants.com/seed_starting_.html>http://hardyplants.com/seed_starting_.html
>
>
>Its a work in progress so do not be to unkind about it.
>
>Paul
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