Can anyone identify these seedlings? I started growing several trays of mixed Rudbeckia and some of the plants growing don't look anything like what the picture showed on the back of the seed packet. the last Image is what I believe the Rudbeckia should look like.
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The first and third are weeds. I know the first by the name of Fat Hen but do not know the other name. I aggree that the last picture are Rudbeckia
that would be good, could have saved me potting up a tray of F
ing weeds!
I would say the first 4 are weeds, the 5th pic could that be a cosmos? Have you planted any?, the spikey little one, the others could be rudbeckia,the 6th pic could well be rudbeckia. Not sure about the biggest one in the middle of the bottom row though
This is why - if I am sowing seeds which I know I won't recognise when they germinate - I always do it in sterile shop-bought compost and start them off in the greenhouse. Then I know whatever comes up HAS to be what was sown!
http://theseedsite.co.uk/seedlings.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Trouble is that shop bought compost these days seems to be full of weed seeds, presumably because the recycled rubbish wasn't composted hot enough.
The 5th pic looks like my rudbeckia fulgida speciosa did for weeks and weeks. I just went out to compare as have been ignoring them but they've grown on a bit now. Typical...
Excellent site that one. Tells you how to germinate a lot of seeds as well.
You could sow them in patterns then you know which were yours
In the sticks near Peterborough