Propagation: Seed Germination ?, 1 by jjayroe

jjayroe wrote:
I'm on the back side of 40 but I get my reading glasses out to plant the sprouts. This is an updateon how it's been going. I went home yesterday and planted seedlings from 6 pm to 11 pm last night so I'd say it's been pretty successful. The coffee filters definitely work better than the paper towels simply because the roots don't get intertwined. Almost everything I've planted has germinated. I'm going to need a bigger yard!! I have noticed that some of my ziploc bags have gotten kind of slimy so I think I'll do better with the sandwich bags that just fold over.

This is the second year that I've used the paper pots but I always wet the paper and strip it off before I plant the seedling. I use a staple to hold mine together and don't want to plant that. A lot of the seedlings I've done are pretty small. I got out my eyebrow tweezers and poked a hole in the dirt with a pencil and plopped the seedling in the hole and used the pencil end to pack the dirt around the seedling. It's worked pretty good for me. For the ones that were very tiny, I just put them on the tip of a sharp knife and used that to get the seedlinginto the dirt.

I had a friend bring me a couple of German Black Tomato seedlings and she used a clear small SOLO cup sith one hole in the bottom. Here's a picture of what she brought me. It looks like she used an icepick to poke the hole in the cup. I like the paper pots but it does take time to make them and I have so many seedlings that I'm going by Wal-mart today to buy some of these cups to try