Re chili germination, that does sound long compared to all the varieties I've been doing this year. My first batch didn't do at all, but the second attempt did. The problem, I'm 99% sure, was the top of the pots drying out. When I put them into a (makeshift) propagator to keep the humidity up and prevent the soil drying, they popped up within ten days, even including the habaneros.
excited to report my chillis came up, but only 4 out of 24 seeds Sown. I've sown a few more last weekend. Also sown last weekend cucumbers, 4 varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, aubergines, sweet peas, broad beans, peas and marrow fats. Pots and Propagators everywhere. What is everyone sowing this weekend?
I sowed flowers yesterday, 4 sorts of petunia, bedding dahlias, Cosmos Sonata, Ageratum Blue Mink, Verbena Compact, Lobelia, Zinnias free from GW mag. Today I sowed 4 sorts of tomato, French Marigolds Fiesta and Vinca Rosea. The broad beans in the GH aren't up yet. The rest I've put in propagators on a window sill.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I planted sea holly on 14th Feb and now I have loads of little seedlings.. The packet states that I have now got to put them in the fridge for 2 weeks then warm for 2 weeks then back in fridge for another 2 weeks.. as I have got all I need do I still have to do this cycle or is this cycle just for germination. I don't want to kill my seedlings in the fridge when they seem so healthy
Oh Mark - beware the clivia! I hope you have lots of good gardening friends. Last year mine was so top heavy I decided to repot it. It split into five large plants - each seemingly as big the single one from which they had come. I've managed to find good homes for three of them, and the other two have grown at a rapid pace to refill the pots to the size of the parent. It's a bit like trying to rehome a batch of kittens.....there are only so many you can find room for!
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Re chili germination, that does sound long compared to all the varieties I've been doing this year. My first batch didn't do at all, but the second attempt did. The problem, I'm 99% sure, was the top of the pots drying out. When I put them into a (makeshift) propagator to keep the humidity up and prevent the soil drying, they popped up within ten days, even including the habaneros.
I sowed seeds yesterday a grass cyperus papyrus and flower laurentia blue stars in little trays
More seed sowing today broad beans and celery
The celery seeds are up and so are the broad beans so exciting seeing the seeds come up
excited to report my chillis came up, but only 4 out of 24 seeds Sown. I've sown a few more last weekend. Also sown last weekend cucumbers, 4 varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, aubergines, sweet peas, broad beans, peas and marrow fats. Pots and Propagators everywhere. What is everyone sowing this weekend?
I sowed flowers yesterday, 4 sorts of petunia, bedding dahlias, Cosmos Sonata, Ageratum Blue Mink, Verbena Compact, Lobelia, Zinnias free from GW mag. Today I sowed 4 sorts of tomato, French Marigolds Fiesta and Vinca Rosea. The broad beans in the GH aren't up yet. The rest I've put in propagators on a window sill.
Clivia, Hosta, Canna, Hemerocallis sowed so far.
BL, I sowed the GW Zinnias a week ago, and they have germinated. Not grown them before, but they look zingy, if that is a word.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I planted sea holly on 14th Feb and now I have loads of little seedlings.. The packet states that I have now got to put them in the fridge for 2 weeks then warm for 2 weeks then back in fridge for another 2 weeks.. as I have got all I need do I still have to do this cycle or is this cycle just for germination. I don't want to kill my seedlings in the fridge when they seem so healthy
Oh Mark - beware the clivia! I hope you have lots of good gardening friends. Last year mine was so top heavy I decided to repot it. It split into five large plants - each seemingly as big the single one from which they had come. I've managed to find good homes for three of them, and the other two have grown at a rapid pace to refill the pots to the size of the parent. It's a bit like trying to rehome a batch of kittens.....there are only so many you can find room for!