Teresa, yep, thats what lily seeds look like. Papery with a flat seed in it.
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thanks toofew.
and for those pellets... even if i only bought 72, to fill that flat, it would only cost me $5.... being 7 cents each.
Ummmm....anyone want those lily seeds?? I can' t grow lilies to save my life.
I like the 36 cell seedling trays best.
I have a couple of the 72 trays(they were a gift), don't use them much. Have to replant too soon.
I buy seed starting mix from the stores, but also make up my own once in a while. You can make your own by blending equal parts of perlite, vermiculite, and peat.
When I repot I like to go right to the 4 inch square pots. Usually for perennials.
I'm not big on planting a whole bunch of seeds into a tray and then plucking them out. But I know if you don't know the germination of seeds, this is a good way. You don't end up with empty spaces in your trays.
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Oh, I forgot to say there is a little hole in the peat pellet for your seeds, just like the square ones you had.
I'll oink fr the lilies!
I just use a big flat and potting mix anymore
Three cheers for Ella!!!!
Lala, Is there any Tomato Soup left? Will send you dmail.
trina...i'll stuff em in your bag.
I didn't use to like lilies at all and I'm still not a huge fan of the suprise lilies, but the others are really starting to grow on me! especially those goofy candy lilies and toad lilies they look really neat!
Star, I'm coming in late as usual but I also want to say thanks for all the hard work and dedication (and putting up with me hehe) and making it possible for us to have a fun place to play with our buttons. I also use the equal parts perlite, vermiculite and peat, but make sure its spaghnum peat. I got a real treat recently when my nephew's wife who runs a small landscaping business offered up her used flats and pots so I have a truckload of those, but if there is a space 2x2 inches left over I'll find something that will fit there and plant a seed in it!
Adding more to my list
Pearly Everlasting- 4 packs (seeds and chaff)
Great for dried flowers and larvae plant for Painted Lady butterfly.
White Wood Aster - 1 more pack (seed and chaff)
White wood aster is native to the Eastern U.S- attracts Butterflies
Siberian Iris- 3 more packs
Obedient Plant - Miss Manners - 2 packs
Hydrangea- Nikko Blue (mophead) - Hydrangea macrophylla - 2 packs
Hydrangea- PG- "Grandiflora"- Hydrangea paniculata - - 2 packs
On the hydrangeas-
I found small pods on the flower heads, broke a few open and found tiny seeds.
The packs are the pods, about 10 pods each, you can break them open yourself.
I'm tired of bagging so the ones I did today have a bit more chaff :)
and I also bringing up the rear in saying a thousand thanks to Ella!
On the subject of peat pellets, I've never had good luck with them either. They seem to be either way too soggy or way too dry. I've had many deaths with those!
As for what I use, I sometimes just use a good quality soiless professional mix with little to no fertilizer in small pots. It really should be sterilized for best results but sometimes that only happens for special seeds, but not always for big or easy seeds. However, a few years ago when our landscape Home Depots were closing I bought several canisters of a product called "Wonder Soil" for 90% off thinking I might resell some on ebay. It is sterile compressed pellets of coir with those polymer crystals for moisture control. I've had amazing results using that stuff on seedlings especially if I add a little worm castings for nutrients, so now I'm hoarding those canisters for myself. I put some in a 4" pot and after sowing the seed, stick a cheapie sandwich bag over it until germination starts. My taller plant tags keep the bag from collapsing. It keeps a nice even moisture but stays fluffy too for oxygen in the root zone. It's not recommended for food crops because of the polymer crystals. I think most of the bloated polymer crystals fall off when transplanting the seedlings into their own pots so I don't worry too much about polymers contaminating the soil. My biggest problem now is having too many things germinated and not enough energy to get them transplanted into bigger pots. I end up loosing a lot of things because of that so my new rule is to plant less than 10 seeds of everything so I don't get overwhelmed.
Geez, I just wrote an epic.....
ordinarily I would probably do that myself, but we are still using evil plant people tactics to get hubby to finish the project he started...I say middle of January most will be large enough to force the issue! so he either finishes what he started, or I'm selling his hot rods and hiring a professional to build EXACTLY what I want and need! LOL
so just in case anyone intersted in a 1932 Ford Roadster with a big block chevy stuffed in it? how about a '67 Cougar Drag car? 71 chevelle? 68 GTO? his and hers 65 mustangs? technically we aren't married and the cars are all in my name....thing if I put for sale signs on them he'll move faster? LOL
I got dibs on the Chevelle or GTO.
Chevelle was always the car i wanted... but DH said it would be a money pit... plus i was quite specific in what i was looking for -- and not having any luck... so he bought me a convertible Z28 with a 6 speed.
OH are either of those stick??
I start indoor and us e the 288 seed trays and cut them down into sections of 9 x 8 rows. Then I us e the logn strip on the oen side that has three rows and cut that up into smaller sections for when I do only a few seeds.
I us e the 288 tray and us e the Fafard fine germinating mix. Cuttign up into the 9 x8 rows oen will fit real nice into a gallon baggy. This what we us e in the gh's. Doesn't take much soil and if oen seed goe s bad it not gonan affect the other s around it. Then when see the first coupel seeds pop up take the whoel tray out and the rest come up.
The seedlings cna stay in thes e trays for quite awhile til they becoem really root bound then ya just pop out from bottom and transplant.
trina.. Uusually if yoru seedlings start out ok and then croak on ya it cuz yoru keepign them peat pellets pot to wet and rottign yoru seedlings . Thos epellet s dry out fast on top , but bottosm and insid eof bottoms stay soake d for logn time. If ya us e them once ya blow them up first time. le t them sit til almost dry then plant yoru seed and just mist from the top. That way ya keep just yoru seedlign mosit and not have rotten soil growing fungal germs on the bottom.
This piggy sittignhere as pinkas cna be, ya all gona make me blush. I enjoy the swap and most of all enjoy ya all or I wouldn't do it. Very soon the pics for the swap wil be starting.
I have about 8 or so packets of this Monarda. I forget the name of it. Went back a bunch cottage garden threads but can't find wher e I poste d it and wher e somebody identified it.
It gets bunche s of branches that coem up from groudn and lot sof flower s that butterflei s and such love. real pretty color of pink too .
Any OPinkers????????? Just holler out. : )
Hmmm Trina, I'm thinking the profit from selling those cars would build a really niiiiiiice greenhouse! So how much do you really like this hubby of yours? LOL :)
Oh, I know! If he doesn't move fast enough for you, find his favorite comfy chair, spray it down with water and cover it in seeds.
Cha-Cha-Cha Chia Chair! :)
Ther a product out that is really good to us e with your seedlings. It expensive as all get out, but doe s make a differenc e and that is root shield and then their plant shield.
Y amight look it up and giv eit a try. I research projects on it and gona get me some mroe to work with too. Can even sid e dres s down with root shield.
I have to thank you too Ella!!This is my first time, and I have had a ball, and met many new friends!!
OH.. btw.. is that not bee balm?? That's what I call it, and I have lots that grows wild here, but it's a lighter pink in color... please let me know if I've been calling it wrong!!
Hahahahhahahaa Danita. That just way to funny. Great idea heheheheh : )
Becky.. I think they told me it was a Monarda. Dang wish I coudl find wher e i posted. abotu it. Maybe the oens who identifie d it wil jump in here.
Star, I think it might be Monarda punctata.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=MOPU
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chia chair....I like that idea....TCS a z28 is not a substitue for an all original GTO!!! And yes they are all stick. Now I do admit I have my own hot rod, but I will NOT let him and his chevy loving but touch it! Mine is a 71 ford Mustang convertible with both the hard and soft tops, all original 32 thousand original miles with burgundy paint....I tell him in the boys all the time if I found so much as a chevy loving breath mark on it I will kill them...they like taking perfectly good cars and stuffing the biggest chevy engine they can it....but they are NOT touching mine, I've had that thing forever...My grandfather and I built that and a 52 Indian motorcycle, The motorcycle is gone I got hit by a drunk driver 3 days after HS graduation paramedics told my parents I died at the scene, was even transported to the morgue until I scared the hell out of a tech when I grabbed his hand, so says everyone else...I thankfully don't remember it...
Yep you right Danita. Thanks. That is it. : )
Pretty stuff for your cottage type garden .
Yep Danita.. just googled it, and you're right... sorry star
opps.. also called horsemint.. spotted bee balm, and bee balm
ok now that I know what "scarify seed before soaking" means....I hate it!
Wow, what a story Trina! Thank goodness you were able to grab that hand.
That's neat about still having a car that you and your grandfather built though.
We both right. I didn't knwo it was calle d bee balm too. Learne d me soem common name s for it : )
That's what I said Danita! I can't imagine what some over zealous medic was thinking when He told my mom that! Unfortunately however I know first hand how she felt....I'm just glad I still have my life....I don't drive the Mustang very often which is why I still have it...it's a standard transmission, and since having 2 strokes I can't do the clutch so well anymore so in town driving just makes me sore and angry by the time I get where I was headed, so I just drive my big ol V8 thunderbird around town...LOL
LOL and I learned the fancy pants name for it!!
LOL Beck
Hey, fellow oinkers, I just packaged up 2 Swamp Sunflower and 6 Daisy Gourd seed packets and added it to my Have list. I have more of the Daisy gourd seeds if more than 6 people want them, but only the two of the Swamp sunflowers. I will also have some winged gourd seeds as soon as I crack 'em open and clean the seeds.
Daisy Gourd? what's that look like?
I've edited my lists, so please review them again. If you've oinked for something that I've acknowledged and your name doesn't appear by it, please d-mail me again and let me know. I've been through my lists so many times and edited them to try to keep them straight, but things happen. Vice versa, if your name appears on my list to receive seeds from and you don't have me down, please let me know. I've saved all my d-mails until this is over so I can refer to them for corrections.
This has been so much fun!!! I'll try to do better next year about saving seeds all year long.
Afternoon, everyone. Starlight that monarda looks really cute, I'd try some if there';s any left.
I haven't seen my dining table for 3 days. It's swamped by envelopes and packets of seeds! Just brought in some more coreopsis new moon from the garden, too. I bought this from High Country Gardens this spring, and it just took off. Beautiful lemon yellow flowers. And still blooming, even though the wind is howling out there!
Got some extra if anyone would like
I wonder how many more plants I can fit in here before he either finishes the greenhouse or he goes insane?
Ok Sharon... maybe I added a few from the coop right there at the end ;-) But think of all the goodies I'll have to share next year! (and I mean the ones I collect after I plant them all... in theory...)
Colchie, I would love to try your New Moon Coreopsis, please. Thank you.
tcs1366, do you still have Coreopsis Tickseed, Cosmos Sensation Mix, and Datura Moonflower? Oinking loudly here!
dmgardener, Do you still have: Cosmos Picotee Mix, Wine & Roses, Dwarf Hederacea, Zinnia Cut & Come Again, and Orange Bell Pepper? Oinking and oinking
Mamawk, Do you still have Waltham Butternut Squash?
Star, Do you still have Verbascum Nigra and Verbascum Temptress White? Osteopermum Tetra Sunshine and Zinnia Giant Mix?
Thank you everyone. Oink