Soaking Cloves before planting?
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Comments (6)I don't think I'd do it much longer than that, and I'm by no means the most experienced enthusiast here, but to the best of my recollection 24 hours isn't usually regarded as "too long". "Overnight" is more like what I'd want to do if I had the option. (Again, I'm by no means the most experienced rose grower here!)...See MoreDo you soak beans before planting?
Comments (10)Beans sprout slowly and poorly at 60F soil temputature. They do ok at 65F but I may not get that here until it is too late to plant my longer season beans. To be able to plant on my usual June 1 date, all but runner beans need to be started indoors. I do grow a lot of transplants but there is not enough room for all that I would need. It is also possible to pre-sprout beans and I do that with all the beans to be planted on June 1 except for those grown as transplants. After much experimentation, it appears that soaking overnight for 8 hours will result in a lot of damaged seeds. Most beans are happy with a four soak in a jar with cheese cloth over the opening followed by rinsing and draining several times a day. Many will be sprouting after 36 hours. Those that are not are given a second 4 hour soak and roots will start to appear even during that soak. This works very well for most beans. The white seed Clem and Sarah's Big Bean will not tolerate a 4 hour soak and is best started in soil free seed starting or potting mix. The white seed Brita's Footlong does fine with a four hour soak followed by a 3 hour soak the next day. Other than growing transplants, the most reliable way I have found is to start beans in a similar way to that except that many beans are grown in a single pot or tray. A pot or tray of a soil free mix of peatmoss, vermiculite and perlite can be used to pre-sprout many beans and they will continue to grow in outdoors temperatures in which they would not germinate. One method of sterilizing or at least greatly reducing pathogens on bean seeds is to soak them in 3% hydrogen peroxide for 15 minutes. I plan to try that with some seed this year. - Dick...See MoreForgot to soak moonflower/morning glory seeds before planting!
Comments (10)I planted moon flower seed about three weeks ago and some of them came up grew to about two inches high and turned brown and died before i got a chance to plant them in the ground. the other seeds did not grow at all. what did i do wrong i soaked them and nicked them kept them in the house in the little greenhouse you get from walmart and took the cover off when the leaves touched the top. Should I check the seeds that didn't grow for rot or should I just leave them alone. I think i need to start over with new seeds if i do should i do anything different? I started morning glorys at the same time and they seem to be small and only half of those came up. I live in zone six in CT i don't know if that makes any difference....See MoreSoaking plants before planting?
Comments (14)Well, using overstatements is one way to try to persuade others to follow your particular view, but it does leave you open to being dismissed outright. Gardengal48, congratulations on your success growing fruiting plants. May that continue to get better and better for you. But....12 hours soaking in water has yet to kill any of the many, many plants that I have been soaking in nutrient-rich water prior to planting or repotting. My goal was not just to get the roots soaking wet, because that would get done pretty quickly. Instead, I want the whole plant to get fueled up with the nutrients from head to toe. Some get soaked only a few hours, and some didn't get pulled out to plant until 3 or (gasp!) 4 days later when I got to it. They have been coming out of the container with thickened happy roots. No rotting. No stench. No withering away. A guy donated a bucket full of 4 ft tall pomegranate suckers clipped in Winter, and I babysat them for more than a month for another guy who would in early Spring cut them to length, dip one end in Dip-N-Grow, and plant the cuttings to get them to root both in pots and in his field. With no room to refrigerate those, I just put some beneficial nutrients in a few inches of water in that 5 gallon paint pail packed with pom suckers and parked it in indirect light. Well, they not only survived the long term dunking, they eventually started to leaf out on top with healthy new leaves and shoots. When the Winter cold became less of a threat, the other guy picked up the pail of healthy suckers, clipped off the bottom few inches that got waterlogged ,clipped off the leafed out top,, and used the remainder of the suckers for rooting. If a "desert" plant like a pomegranate could make it so well while standing in this 'ankle-deep' water, then I would say that I will do the same exact thing next time this pom situation comes up. I won't buy a tall fridge to put them in. Remember the grade school experiment putting a stalk of celery in a glass filled with water that had been dyed with red food coloring, and the stalk gradually wicked up the red water towards the stalk top. Well, I want many of my plants to wick up lots of fertilized fluid all the way up prior to planting/repotting. I sure would not soak succulents like cacti in water like that, or magnolia trees, but it is a non-issue for many fruiting plants. Otherwise, the first time that rainy weather keeps fruit tree roots soggy wet in 100% soggy mud, they would die from what you described as the roots being deprived of oxygen for 12-48 hours. Sometimes soggy, muddy, rainy weather lasts for much longer than that, and somehow the fruit trees don't croak. Maybe you could rephrase the time period to fit the field evidence. No offense intended, Thank you for sharing from your experience. Don't stop....See Morerj_hythloday
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