Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Seed starting MAF 2014, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Karen---
I bet your seeds will all grow just fine--sterilizing or not...
While that may be "recommended'--many of us do not do that...

1--Wanted to show you how well MY R. Hirta seeds are coming up.
These are the dbl. yellow ones...Also--the seeds are about 3-4 years old..
I sprinkled pinches of them over each opening--as they were so much chaffe.
SO happy they are coming up--now to have to divide them...ugh!

Those of you who got these seeds from me--you will get plenty of plants..
Mow--if these are also biennial--you may nor get bloom till next summer.

2--Here are my Red Mocha coleus cuttings. they seem to be different than other coleus.
If they go dry--they do not wilt. They just march on--now approaching 1 1/2' tall.
I have been meaning to take cuttings of these too...

3 & 4--There is the 6" pot of same--to show you (again) how the leaves mutated.
Never figured that out....I think it was low light through the winter months.
Now--get this--out of the mutated tops--the reg. red leaves are growing again.
Bad light on this picture---it all looks washed out.

5--Karen --I have oodles of these trays. They can be used to seed larger plants into.
They are as good as 3" pots each. Just cut the sections apart with scissors.
These are the trays that 4" annuals come in. I can get an endless supply...
I will bring you some when I come over...

I might seed all my Zinnias in here...already did some in the small cell packs--bummer...
They are all up too..Time to hustle TODAY to rearrange all my plants that are
still hogging ,u light shelves.
G.