She hasn't posted here in a long time.
Anyone Know Where Twiggybuds Is?
Hey, Gal,
I just connected with Dorothy, and, she's doing well. Been outta pocket in another gardening thread, and will be dropping in to Dave's directly.
She's so happy you asked about her absence here.
Linda.
Hi Guys. I've missed all my old friends. I've had some tough times with family members and just laid low for the duration. The fine spring weather has gotten my spirits up and and I'm gearing up for a max effort in the garden. I'm looking forward to catching up on what's been happening ... haven't read anything yet so it's gonna take awhile. It feels so good to be back (and to be missed).
Dorothy
You have been missed, Dorothy! I sent you a D-mail a while ago but you never responded, and it looked like you hadn't posted here since the fall. It gets you to thinking that if anything happens to one of us there's really no way to get the word back to the DG folks! Anyway, I'm so glad that you're back and doing well.
Cheers!
Leslie
Can't imagine how many times I thought of asking this question myself. Good to see you are alive and well Dorothy. I can't thank you enough for all the great advice you have given me. Especially that one on metformin. You were the first to bring to my attention the use of hydrogen peroxide in starting seedlings and this has been working great. I have gone one step further with this idea as well. 'Imitation Rain' as I like to call it. One of the difficulties I had in the past was mold forming in or on peat pots used to start seedlings in dome covered flats. This problem was correct with daily spraying with hydrogen peroxide added to the spray water. The thought then occurred to me that somewhere I read that the reason rain is so much better for watering crops is because it contains oxygen. So why not make your own rain water by adding hydrogen peroxide. I have been spraying the seedlings and other plants twice daily with this mixture and it appears to be working well. So kudos to you Dorothy and welcome back. You Have been missed.
THAT'S where I learned about using Hydrogen Peroxide! I couldn't remember where I got the lesson from. It was YOU, Dorothy!
Been working like a charm, too. I even passed the lesson on to a newbie with mold just this week!
See? I told yah you were being missed!
Welcome back!
Gymgirl ^^_^^^^_^^ (Linda and Dorothy skipping down the Yellow Brick Road)
Ditto on missing you Dorothy. I was wondering how the tomato seeds did that I sent you. We had a wonderful exchange and I will be sowing some different varieties of your seeds this year. I also sent an e-mail a while back and have been wondering about you since you didn't respond. With all the turmoil on DG for a while I was afraid you had left us! Glad to hear you are well and look forward to more of your advice on DG.
Jessica
I have thought about you every time I go through my tomato seeds (which is often) because so many of them came from you. Your generosity is much appreciated.
Y'all are just too much. All I ever did was just enjoy the garden. It's the next best thing to talking and sharing over the fence with good neighbors. I also remember whose seeds I'm planting and it just adds to the whole experience. In fact, I have tomato and pepper plants in the greenhouse right now from most of you. I'm trying to garden like my life depends on it this year and expanding. Yesterday I traded some extra tomato plants for the promise of a bucket of purple hull peas. Today I had a couple elderly ladies from the neighborhood stop by and I found some good homes for a few plants. Some of them came from your seeds so they're really getting around.
I got lazy and dumb this winter. I didn't use the peroxide but once after my plants germinated and it cost me. Damping off got all my basil and I also had to replant some other stuff. I haven't had the problem for years with the peroxide so that lesson is now reinforced.
Thank you all for such a big welcome back. I'd been gone so long, I was afraid you would call me a traitor.
This thread reminded me of the peroxide and I quickly made up a solution. Here's hoping it works. I'm still not positive that it makes a difference but it's cheap and easy. Amazing that your tomatoes are up already; I just planted mine on Wednesday! But my peppers and eggplants are up, and so are the ground cherries I'm trying this year.
I need to know about the peroxide!
I also need to make time to get my seeds planted in my trays. I planted lettuce and broccoli raab seeds in the garden yesterday. Weatherman is calling for more cold weather next week.
Cajun, this is a handy chart. I bookmarked it:
http://www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/gardening-with-hydrogen-peroxide.html
Glad to see you back, too, twiggybuds! I've missed your input as well =D. And I'll be planting out tomatoes from some of your seeds left over from last year this weekend. Best of luck with this years garden to you all!
Thanks so much. Now, when do I spray it on and what do I spray it on?
I've been using it to start my seeds; when I water the flats that's what I give them. I'm not sure how else to use it. Twiggy? Or there are probably suggestions on that site.
Late to this party ~ but yes, I too am happy to see you back Twiggybuds.
I've thought of you many times and went so far as to register and log in to the other site and read your posts. Never did post but was glad to know you were still amongst the gardening.
Like everyone here, I look forward to you sharing your gardening skills. Happy to see you (and springtime)! lol
I put my okra and eggplant seeds in some peroxide water last night. Some seed fell to the bottom and some floated on top.
This evening, the okra seeds floating have sprouted little white nibs.
So does this mean the floaties are good and the sinkers are stinkers?
When you're fermenting tomato seeds, the floaters are the ones you discard, if I remember correctly! So I dunno.
I am about to plant seeds in my little green house trays with the peat discs. How do I use peroxide water on them and when?
CajuninKY, check the posting above from greenhouse_gal on March 18th. You can interpolate a dosage from there. I use a small round plastic spray bottle from one of those dollar stores to mist my seedlings several times daily. I don't really measure the dosage. I just approximate about a one to eight dilution. I don't think dosages of diluted hydrogen peroxide are so critical that you have to use exact measurements.
Cheryl, I have a little quart-sized watering; I add two tablespoonsful of peroxide and then use it to keep the flats moist. Mine get watered from the bottom, so I don't mist them; I just pour. I don't know whether misting would be better, but my lights are so close to the seedlings that misting would be difficult.
Thanks so much. I'll give this a try.
CajuninKy,
I started okra and eggplant seeds night before last in 6 oz. yogurt cups of tepid water with 1 capful of H2O2 (1Lisac!) per cup.
The okra seeds germinated overnight with little white tails yesterday morning that were a full 1/8" by last night when I planted them....
You just put the seeds in the water and plant them after they sprout?
Yep...planted them into my Garderner's Supply 15-cell Deep Rooting System (DRS)last night...not ready for them to be planted directly into my eBuckets just yet, so working with them in the cells. They'll probably go out into the sunshine tomorrow, and grow on in the cells until I transplant them into the eBuckets in mid- to late-April.
I really like that DRS. The tomato and bell pepper seedlings I started in them in January tremendously outperformed ones I started in flats, and in 4" pots (which were only slightly behind).
Based on this season"s veggie seed sowing experience, I've decided to use only the DRS, 4" nursery pots and my one-gallon wintersowing milk jugs for starting veggie seeds in the future. Flats are a hassle, and it seems the more room that germinated seedling has, the more roots it puts out, and the stockier it gets from the beginning...
Linda
