Seedling...the first flower.

Thanks Antoinette, I'll give that a try. The heat has been on for the last month so it might be dry
in that room.

Hope your remodel ends soon so you can start your seeds.

Did you soak and peel your seeds, I hope the forces are with me and I haven't lost my touch..lol

Looking good Linda, you have got colour and scent, a great base to start hybridising with :-)

Hi Antoinette, you need to soak your seeds, it definitely aids germination.
Alan

Will do, and thank you Alan. I used to use a drop of bleach and a little peroxide in the water... Is that still the case, or should I soak in water with superthrive. Or, just plain water? I'm so anxious to start mine.

It will be nice to have companions growing at the same time.

Antoinette, I do use a couple of drops of Peroxide in the 'soak water' sometimes!
If I'm being really honest, I think plain water is OK, I only use Peroxide on seeds that I have acquired and don't know age/storage conditions/etc.

Thank you Alan.

A.

Antoinette, yes I do peel my seeds....very carefully. I also soak them for at least 24 hrs in plain water.
Go for it, the forces are with you !!!

Thank you Alan for the encouragement :) I was reading the earlier entries you made on your blog. Where you have your plants go dormant. Is that required for the plants?

Linda, if I lived in a climate where my plants could be left out all year they would be fine. I could put them in a heated greenhouse but with so many plants the heating would cost a fortune for 5 months!
So my only option is to put them in a spare room in the house, no heating in that room (but probably high 50f's from rest of house) and just winter day light from a window.
Cuttings and seedlings are in a conservatory at 60+f with lights. By January I will put HPS lights (14hrs per day)on in the spare/plant room and all plants/cuttings/seedlings are in there until mid April then out into unheated greenhouses to harden off ready for planting out in May.
Oh how I wish for winters without frost:-)

Even though I soak and peel the cork off the seeds I don't get it all off and end up with a seedling that is stuck.

Alan, I did that with the warm group brugs that I had grown before. But they had become so big and heavy that trying to get them down the basement stairs was too much for me. There is only 2 down there now and they are small.

Growing the Saphaeros is so much easier with their size. So far the plants that I have still fit in the sunroom.

No frost and also more sunshine. :)

Place a small piece of wet paper towel over the seedling seed cap and mist the paper towel over the cap many times during the day to soften it and it will come off really quick without hurting the cotyledon .. I did that with mgs that I grew. Keep the humidity high on it by placing a clear drinking cup, so you can see its progress. I'm going out today to get a shelving unit to start mine hopefully tomorrow.. The mg seedlings I grew would be misted a cpuople of time a day then I placed the domes back on till they outgrew the domes, then I would mist at least twice a day till I could get them outside when spring arrived, it is really dry here in NM most of the year, but with the pecan orchards around us and them irrigating all summer, we get the moisture for outdoors we need.

I'm really excited to start these seeds. I did get them out last night and have them handy for tonight. I just have to find some soil less jiffy mix to use. The remodeling inside is almost done and I can't wait ..

Hi Linda, yup it really is 'hard work' moving them all in the back out but????

Antoinette, good luck with the seeds, you'll have seedlings soon :-)