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An update on my seedlings...
Comments (13)Mike, This was my first attempt, and I'll repeat the process this fall. I actually followed Olga's recommendations. (Anything that Olga says can be considered dogma). I took some seeds out of the hips; wrapped them in damp paper towels; placed the towel/seeds into a baggie; labeled it, and put it inside my refrigerator for about 8 weeks. (I'll start collecting ripe hips as I see them now). Then, I took the seeds out of the refrigerator and planted them in a seed starting mixture (Miracle Gro, perhaps?), in a tray of individual cells. (You could use sixpacks, small pots, cups, etc.) I then put the tray in a "clear" rubbermaid storage container, bottom watered, drained off excess water, put the lid back on the container, put the container in my unheated sunroom, and left it there. I think I set up 5 trays of seeds. When the seedlings had about 4-6 true leaves, I potted them up into individual small pots...I'll use band pots this year. I will say that I skipped the entire refrigeration process for over half of the seeds and got the same results, I think. I kept the lid on the rubbermaid storage containers, stacked them about 3-4 high in front of my floor to ceiling window. My goal in my little hybridizing program is to produce healthy plants. I really enjoy moss roses, so I'll be trying to get them. Also, I am really beginning to prefer once bloomers. Robert...See MoreUpdate on Seedlings
Comments (21)Cindee, I understand exactly what you are talking about. These are these little things we try to hold on for long long time, and these are the things that really hurt when we lose them. If I lose all of my clothes, I can replace all of them, but I will never be able to replace that torn little paper with some numbers on it that was written by someone passed away... And this is the same sentimental value why Jodi treasures her Minerva so much. She reminds her of her beloved doggie that will never come back, but every time she looks at the flower, the bulb, the green leaves, she remembers and smiles. I also have a tape with my Grandparents telling us old stories and tales about witches and hidden treasures and stuff like that. I have brought all the cassettes over with me to the US. I am planning to digitalize them, then convert them to mp3 to store them and make a lot of safety copies. I might send one copy to my used to be family. I bet they don't know about these recordings, and they will break down and cry when they get them. The only negative thing about this is that my voice is also on those recordings, so that still makes me think if I should send them or not. But I will most definitely make sure that I will convert them to digital and save them. I will write movies from these stories. :o)...See MoreUpdate on seedlings
Comments (1)They look very healthy and nice size for 1 year olds. I just germinated some Wildfires too. They were fast. The slowest were Amaron's curly white and Penang Peach. I germinated about 10 different ones and by far the slowest were the Penang Peaches. I don't know if this is normal for them or perhaps the seeds were older. They all germinated but they were very slow compared to the others. Pu'u Kahea was the fastest. Kimo was not slow, nor fast for me....See MoreUpdate on the seedlings and a question
Comments (7)Jeannie, don't worry about the colour on the caudex of your babies, it is completely normal, it is not from too much sun. The ones with a jade green stem usually grow to be white/or light coloured flowers or yellow flowers. The jade green coloured ones will also change & develop some colour to their caudex as they get abit bigger (but they are still likely to turn out to be light/white coloured flowers). I usually like to label the jade green ones now, so that I know which ones they are later, as once they get bigger it will be difficult to distinguish between them based on their colour. Keep up the good work with your seedlings & let them enjoy some sun. Mine get filtered sun for about 6hrs a day now. Here is a photo of some I am growing to show you that mine are also bronze coloured & jade green. Rachel :) Hopefully you can see the jade green ones. The taller ones in the front of the photo showing a bronze colour & some jade green ones hiding behind....See Morelindalana 5b Chicago
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