It is just a wonderful feeling when you see that baby poking it's little sprout up, isn't it?
It's amazing how they can sit in the cold and come up when the warmth and moisture are just right. I had planted several seeds last fall in my greenhouse and most grew all winter, but the ones that never showed up, went back in the soil bag. I started using that soil this spring, and darned if a couple daylily seeds just decided to show up in that soil. Seeds are so amazing.
Nina

I have polinated daylillies, and colected the seeds, and put them in white envelopes, recording the parents and date. I want to Know if dry seeds are viable. What size pot and soil medium did you use and how far apart did you plant them. How far from the lights, and did you cover them?
I planted some 2006, and put the 3" seedlings in the garden in the spring. They are doing fine but I am not sure which is which as when someone racked the leaves the tags were lost!Maryko ps What is URL? What name of the link?

Maryko, Winter Sowing is done outdoors, so there are no lights. I WS'd 50 cups of crosses (16 oz. cups with 2-3 seeds in each). I put them outside in the freezing cold in January and for most of two months they were completely covered with ice and snow. We have had only a couple of days above 50 deg. and the last two nights were well below freezing.

Still, I am getting a few daylily sprouts as of today. With the coming week, we should be having weather more spring-like and I hope they will all come to life.

I also WS's 75 plastic milk jugs with other perennials and even with the cold temps, 15 of those jugs are full of sprouts. This is my first attempt at WS and it is very rewarding ---- simple as nature intended and no worry or hardening off! Check out the Winter Sowing forum.

Good for you Mark...I also did a few in WS containers and most of them are up and growing, however, I planted the rest directly into my seedling bed about 3 weeks back, and they're doing great also....guess I'll watch to see which of them seem to grow the best. The WS ones will have to be transplanted which may set them back, but the ones sown directly into the bed won't be moved at all until it comes time to "cull" them. :)
Good luck with your babies.
Jan

Mark, That's great news. I've been following the WS posts with much interest in this method. I always have far too many seeds to get started under lights in the winter. I do think I will give this method a try with my excess seed this year. If it works well enough, it will save me a lot of additional work in the late spring and early summer months.

Linda