Morning Glories: Beginner germinating advice?, 1 by Colderwild

Colderwild wrote:
Surprises, indeed!

Looks like my Picotee Reds may have just been slow starters.
Now seven of the eight have started to sprout roots, with one...er..."enthusiastic" seed. The eighth may or may not be getting ready to go; it looks about the same as it did earlier, but then so did the others just a few hours ago.

Similarly, one of the two "late starter" Picotee Blue seeds has started to grow a root, and the last of that set is just sort of sitting there watching the rest of them go.

The one dud seed in the batch of Flying Saucers still looks like a dud, though, with no difference from earlier today.

Still, other than an earlier experiment with tomatoes, this is my first attempt at growing things from seeds; as with those, I've started a lot, expecting a high rate of failure, and been rewarded with a resounding success. I've got a smaller set of the same three varieties, which I nicked and soaked using a second set of instructions, cobbled together by sort of "averaging" a number of different sources on the web. Virtually all of those have started to sprout, as well.

I've got to learn to stop underestimating Mother Nature's ability to compensate for an inept gardener.