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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] primula from seed

Mary,
About growing the primulas from seed:
    Is this the only variety you've tried?
    What is your growing medium like?
I have been growing some primulas from seed collected in the Yunaan Seed
Exped. last year.  I have p. forestii, p. polyneura, and some unnamed species.
Anyway, I found that they looked great for awhile, but eventually I would
overwater them, they grow so slowly and sort of reach a point when they look
like they are dying.  What I did was to transplant them (they looked like they
would die anyway) into a very porous medium of perlite and Redi-Earth.  I
watered them thoroughly and put them with my hosta seedlings under plastic
tenting.  They took off and I believe it was the very porous medium that made
all the difference.
   Another thing I noticed was that they suffered when I had them under my
double light fixture carts, where they were getting heat and high light
intensity.  I found that they did much better at the end of a two tube
fixture, elevated at the very ends of the tubes (about 3" away).  The ones I
did not transplant and had overwatered are now looking good as are the
transplanted ones.
  Hope this helps.
Kay Dye, Edelstein, IL (Peoria) Zone 5, but always pushing 6
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