African Violets and Gesneriads: spring is here.... sort of, 0 by Keyring

Keyring wrote:
funny you should ask about the diastema seeds. I realized today that I had tried to pollinate it with a Phinaea. Or maybe it was something else. And maybe these seeds are not from the flowers I tried to pollinate. Who knows? But anyway, I sowed some of them and I guess I'll find out.

For fertilizer, I use what I have when I remember. I try to hit the succulents with a low nitrogen, and some orchids with high P when they need it, and seedlings with a high N (but very low concentration). I don't have a feeding program for the gesneriads so they just get some overflow from the others. Some pots have 2-4 Nutricote (7-7-7) slow release pellets in them. That way, they have some food even if I forget to fertilize, but the slow release is weak enough that they won't burn if I remember to fertilize. Yes, hedging my bets.

I sowed about 10 different seeds today. A couple are just to test germination on old seeds. Some are crosses from the GHA seed fund. A couple are some species seeds that were sent to me in trade. I'm so extremely out of space that I'm not squeezing seed pots inbetween shelves ;-)