I posted this at MPG. Anyone have experience here with this?
Okay, dopey me got so excited when my seeds germinated. i placed them in the soil and left them. After a few days I noticed that most of the seed shell was off them except a few. With 2 I carefully, or so thought, tried to remove it.
With one of them the 2 little leafs fell off. Does this mean these won;t continue? it had some roots so now it is a stem sticking up with nothing on it.
The other one, the whole top came off. Cold I stick that back in the soil and it still grow? and the bottom, could that still grow?
The Plumie killer,
:( Flutter :(
Decapitated a Plumie seedling
The bottom will don't think the top will i have broken seedlings or should I say my cat has. The bottom peice will grow sometimes it puts off a 2 branches. I have a few seedlinds with 2 branches were they have broken off. As young as your talking don't think tops going to make it.
I saw your post at MPG. When they are that young and the cotyledons are taken off, then they won't develop any further and will eventually rot. The top won't root at that stage, and the bottom won't develop either. Consider them both a learning lesson! It is best to mist the seed jackets and let them come off naturally.
I second that.. I decapatated a seedling a couple weeks ago try to take the seed jacket off. That thing die and disappeared.. Luckily I had two other seedlings that did fine all by themselves or I'd be beside myself too..
spray the husk with water before trying to remove it. works well.
I usually do spray it but a part of it got caught. They appear to be growing. at least the top part of it, afraid to look for roots.
Flutter
I let nature takes its course works for me. They fall off on there own
Patience is a plumie growers friend
So sorry :(
Ive murdered many myself in my laboratory.
for shame!
;~)
Okay...so i did go to check them out. The ones that I decapitated are growing roots!! They look like just 3 little sticks above the soil but underneath they are roots all around. The heads that I stuck back near the soil are still green but nothing different on the bottom so got rid of those. here is my next set that I floated to germinate
Here are some that sproated already
and another after 3 days
Those roots are going to get too long for that container and will end up bending to the side or breaking. Those are tap roots which grow strong. I would transplant each to its own 1-gallon container. I start seeds almost exclusively in soil.
Oops, didn;lt say that. once the seeds open I immediately plant them into their own sections. here is my first set
Those look great! They are ready for one-gallon containers now. Seedlings have strong root systems and grow quickly and need plenty of room to grow in. They don't have the rot issues that cuttings can have. I just transplanted 40 three-year-old seedlings to 15-gallon containers, and boy is my back sore!
Yippee!! Now I have to get my hands on a bunch of 1 gallon pots. great. Hubby will love me so much more now LOL
i use the 16-oz cups for mine. i've found that regardless of what size container that the tap root always hits bottom. the best route is to put them in the ground. however, that is not a viable option for many of us because of our cold winters. two small seedlings will be put to the test this winter.
Mine could use bigger pots but its a room issue there going in the green house this winter that would take up to much room. Clare you must have a massive green house to put everything you have in there. I hate to leave anything out I wrapped some last year and they still had burnt tips. It got down to 28 here they will have to wait till spring for the bigger pots.
Deep cups I could do but still working on pots. Thanks for the idea
Flutter
I never liked the cups because drainage was so poor for me no matter how many holes I drilled in the bottom.
Dana, I only put a few things in the portable greenhouse for the winter like rooting cuttings and plumies with inflos. I had a few 10-gallon containers in the greenhouse last winter, but most of the containers were 5-gallon containers or smaller. We had record cold here last winter, and I had to cover my plumies for a few days, and some of them still had damage. Hopefully, that won't happen again this year. I'm not planning on putting up a greenhouse this year.
hi clare - i found that it's not the # of holes but rather the size that matter. plus, i put them at an angle where the side and bottom of the cup comes together. water runs right through.
i do use 1-gal sometimes when it's for my own collection. however, when i start large batches of seeds to give away they always go in cups.
flutter - you can buy even larger styrofoam cups like 32 oz.
This message was edited Sep 19, 2007 10:40 AM
Have those strofoam ones. Cool
That's a good idea, Dete, so that you don't end up giving away your pots!
most definitely! LOL
The other day I was giving new arrivals superthrive and miraclegrow and as I was going along I noticed the seedlings were dry so I gave them a quick drink not thinking much about it . In a matter of a few days they shot up 3-4 inches had to put little stakes on them to keep them straight.
I've had to stake some of my seedlings too, but after a while, you can remove the stake. My seedlings are some of my biggest and thickest trunks.
My seedlings have put out anywhere from 4-5 secondary leaves each and their trunks are about 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch think already.. I'm just amazed.. I love checking on them.. They are just amazing to watch..