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Cucumber: carbon prevents germination?

P POD
15 years ago

Have you experience with this problem?

Some years back, I read about it in Nancy Bubel's book **The New Seed-Starters Handbook.**

Page 262; Quote:

Avoid adding unfinished compost as I once did. The carbon dioxide it gives off discourages curcubit seeds, which need abundant oxygen for sprouting.

Unquote.

Not thinking, my seeds went into a bed 5/31 covered with lots of dry leaves. Not a single cuke has shown up. Blauhilde and Neckargold beans went in adjacent, and they happily showed up.

Darn.

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