Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?

wayne_county_man

12 years ago

Had no success getting the seeds to germinate. Any suugestions?

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fatamorgana2121
12 years ago
How are you trying to grow them? I did average indoor seed starting techniques in late winter/early spring with these and had great success.

FataMorgana
wayne_county_man
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12 years ago
I did the traditional seed flat method under fluorescent lights - no luck. I tried outside in a pot - no luck. I am a pretty experienced seed starter. Just wondering if there are special methods for germinating the seeds (e.g. Refrigerator for a couple of weeks). I am beginning to speculate bad batch of seed. Sure is a shame because this was a large package of seed. :-(
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fatamorgana2121
12 years ago
I did nothing special. No pretreatment and started them in indoor seed flats under lights. They were even seeds I got at a seed swap and weren't anything fancy. I would try other seeds.

FataMorgana
wayne_county_man
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12 years ago
Yeah - that's what I was thinking. It was a large bag of seed from china. Maybe they roasted the seeds or something (for cooking).

Oh well - Thanks for the response.
t-bird
12 years ago
I had a hard time with these as well. What I did was take a plasted food container from take out, with a lid and seeled it up.

They do take a very long time to germinate, and the constant moisture is important.
wally_1936
12 years ago
If you keep having problems getting the seeds to sprout just maybe it will be cheaper to just buy a plant and place that in the ground. In my area it re-seeds itself and I have to put it up to keep it from taking over my herb bed. I have found for me in this area it does not do will in our spring-summer season but does best here in our fall season but once established it grows great.
kk1515
12 years ago
chinese chives aka garlic chives are used in traditional chinese medicine as a yang tonic with an affinity for the lungs. if they won't sprout, throw em out and start over. even easier to get a start from a friend or garden center.
Trishcuit
12 years ago
It was a large bag of seed from china

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Well there's your answer right there. They have a reputation of reputable quality goods. Who knows WHAT they've been through?
Note: this is NOT a racist comment. Just one based on observation of Chinese goods in general over recent years.

Luckily a pack of garlic chive seeds is easy to find and cheap.
James Cua
4 years ago
in philippines, we got 2 season. rain or shine. i failed to germinate chive for almost 9 months now, and i cant find a growing plant around my neighborhood. have use seed from different vendors and have mix several growing soil. but no success. once i read about keeping seed in darkness. which i got some 10 sprout out of 50 seeds and i cant duplicate that after. some luch. now i still get 5 food boxes of seeds under germination for over a month now.

our temp now is 24 to 28 deg C. should be perfect. what else there to try?
Abhilasha Singh
2 years ago
I got mine from reputed seller and never got to see a single sprout. Wondering if there is a special season or way of doing it.

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