Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #6, 1 by Lala_Jane

Lala_Jane wrote:
Holy cow there's no such thing as sitting down "for a minute" and to catch up with you guys. Ya miss a day and you need two hours to read through it all....and Lord knows I can't just hit and miss all the posts. :-P

I'm having the same dilema as the rest of you. I'm running out of light space way before I've run out of seeds I want to sow. I wonder if 12 hours of light would be sufficient? I could rotate the flats and have twice as many!

Currently under lights I have:
3 different dahlias,
4 different coleus
wishbone flower
1 of the salvias
2 different cannas
2 flavors of monkey flowers
crape honeysuckle
mask flower (I think....the only tray with no ID which is remarkable for me)
3 different marigolds
2 Gaillardia (which did fine WSing last year, but I got blooms sooo much sooner on the ones I started inside)
Corncockle
5 different petunias
Gold Green
Silver Mist
Laurentia axillaris
3 lonely daturas
3 colors of 4 o'clocks
and the burgundy geraniums

On the mats I have:
3 containers with banana seeds (that I'm about to give up on)
more canna
palo verde trees (just for fun...they germinated in 2 days!)
Anthurium
corkscrew vine
Saxufrage
Helen's Flower
Snaps
Cassia alata
Scarelt Milkweed
2 colors of phlox
and poached eggs.

I will not even start with the winter-sowing.

Michaela, wasn't it you with whom I split the silver mist? Those are the TINIEST babies I've ever tried to care for. A couple of them have their 3rd set of true leaves and are still the size of a pin head!

And what's up with the perlite stuff on the 4 o'clocks y'all? This is my first time growing them and I was so fascinated with that white glob of powder that I decapitated one of the poor souls while fingering it. What IS that stuff?