Well, all was not good luck with the seeds I soaked for my experiments. Most of the seeds didn't germinate and when I pulled the shell off, the seed was disintegrated. I have a few that are still viable from the kinetin and benzalconium chloride, but all the others were bad. I wonder if I should have removed the outer corky shell? I wonder if the shell caused the chemicals to become too concentrated? Held them too long?
I did have good luck with lots of the "mini" cuttings I started. I've got them out into regular pots in the green house without them needing the high humidity that they had become accustomed to.
I think some of my failures were caused by a "forgetful" DH who didn't open the door on the green house early enough and the temps got really high. Guess I should have stayed there, but the plant swap was so much fun!!
I have a fan/thermostat combo that is just sitting there waiting to be installed. I wonder if I turn the power off to the green house if I could figure out how to install it?
Failed experiments
Sorry to hear about your failures but glad your little snips are growing...:o)
No doubt your successes far outweight your failures. You have learned from this - - now you know one way not to do it and what could possibly make it a success next time. I know you and you will try again!!
Cala, My oasis experiment didn't work all that well either. About 50-50. My leaf in the glass of water lasted about three days, so forget that. Now, the things I've done right might get blown or frozen away tonight. Cold, snowy, and windy right now. However, if we didn't try these things, we would always wonder, right?
Cala, that's too bad your experiments weren't successful but without experimenting no one has a way of learning new things.The next time might be a complete success.
Cala, if they'd all been successful, what would you have to look forward to?? :) it was fun, though, wasn't it? sorry they didn't take, but you're one of the few that would have tried anyway, so that makes it worthwhile.
Cala is our Brug scientist and we all learn from her. :)
I still have some pods, so I will try again. I'm thinking it was the cork that caused the failures, so will peel this time. I think I had a few fungus gnats that may have caused problems too.
I'm proud of you for even trying the new ways,even if they didn't work,you too brugie.I'm gunna try the leaf thing again and maybe some small shoots.My favorite brug is dying and all thats left is a single small shoot.
Here is a question for you all. I mailed out some brugs and seedlings up north last week. They got there in good shape and were potted up. The two larger brugs, rooted, are now wilting for Diana. What do you think might be the problem? I thought maybe they were too wet, or could it just be shock and they need a few days to recover? Got me stumped. The smaller ones in the oasis, I believe, did okay. Three tiny seedlings, that I just stuck in for the heck of it, may have perished, but that is no shock to me. They were really tiny, with only the first set of true leaves.
Brugie
They could have been chilled and just need time to recover.
I thought about that too. We did have some bad weather come rolling into the upper midwest about the time she would have received them. I went out to the garage and cut her some strong cuttings and will send them. I can see that they are starting to grow. I bet that it would be easier on a new person to brugs to start with good cutting material anyway. She isn't upset as I sent quite a bit of stuff, I just want her to have one that will bloom this year and I know this last stuff will definitely bloom.