8 days, and grass seed hasn't germinated yet
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How to pre-germinate or prime grass seed?
Comments (6)I work with grass for sports turf and agriculture and pre germinating seed is of real value. Most seed is treated with something which soon breaks down in the soil. However, if you wet the bulk seed and leave it to stew it can be of such concentration as to damage the seed therefore the seed, once wetted, needs to be flushed clean. Soaking and flushing should be complete in one hour as the air breathing seed will suffocate if immersed any longer. Only pre germinate half the seed you intend to spread. Once the seed is wet I put it in a cement mixer and rotate it for two minutes every hour for the first day. On the second and subsequent days it is tipped onto a clean floor about half an inch deep and kept damp with a sprayer until day five. It is then scooped up and mixed with the rest of the dry seed to help it to flow well. This also spreads the preterm effect. Application rates should be as low as possible as high rates encourage damping off....See MoreRudbeckias and Echinacea not germinating yet
Comments (28)erika - I'm using the sprout chart for Zone 6 on the Wintersown.org website too. I didn't need the entire list so I just selected the rows of the table that corresponded to the perennials I WS and pasted them in a Word document. My sprout chart is just 2 pages. I like that it captures botanical name, common name, date WS and date sprouted--makes it so easy to keep track. So far 26 varieties out of a total of 66 have sprouted so that's more than a third. My first WS attempts I used recycled foil salad bar containers but once I read about milk jugs I switched. I definitely prefer the milk jugs but the stokesia, globeflower & Echinacea seeds I WS in the foil containers have all sprouted. Planting out is going to be interesting!...See MoreWhat hasn't sprouted yet (list)...
Comments (36)Hang in there Terrene on that Polemonium; mine just started germinating about a week ago (after I had STOPPED look down the sprout of the jug - do you think it's one of those "a watched pot never boils" senerios?!!!) I have about 15 containers out of over 200 that have not germinated. Some of those are "doubles" of the same plant (different variety or different seed source) and those I have pretty much given up on if the "twin" has sprouted weeks ago. A few (Like Toad Lily) were new to me this year and I thought they were goners and then "Wa-LA" sprouts appeared. I won't toss anything till Memorial day....See MoreWho else HASN'T started their tomato seeds yet?
Comments (28)tom8olvr, You were the one who told me it would be OK to start a batch of seeds today (April 13) after I got back from vacation, so according to you, you are not going anywhere in a handbasket. I'm starting Batch 3 today - my cherries and my "wispy" types. And I'm potting up Batch 2 today as well, which are about 2 1/2 weeks old. Batch 1 was started over 4 weeks ago and looking very awesome, but we will see if they get a little too big for their britches by May 16. Overall, my mad science experiment is 9 weeks/7 weeks/5 weeks from plant out, and a few of varieties in the 9 week batch are also in the 7 week batch. GWCW (GardenWeb Conventional Wisdom) says that the 7 week batch will do as well if not better than the same variety in the 9 week batch - I'll start posting pictures soon....See Moreeriocaulon
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