Sprouts and Seedlings 2008! Any pics to share?!

A 2008 "Sprouts and Seedlings" photo thread--continued from the 2007 thread here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/701931/


Hi, everyone-- looks like spring has sprung (for the moment here in Ohio, knock on wood) and it might be time for some DGers to start photographing their WS sprouts and seedlings and record them here. Everyone finds themselves with lost label containers once in a while, and these photos are so helpful and informative!

We'd love to see what you've got coming up (and don't forget to label and post your seedling photos in plant files, too. I'm not sure if the WS database is ready for sprout photos, yet).

I just looked into my containers today, and I don't have sprouts yet, but I do have one pic of sprouts from last year to post-- and I'm sure all of you can do better than these poor little unknowns, so let's see them?!!

Happy seed sowing, t.





This message was edited Mar 1, 2008 3:07 PM

Many of us need pictures MORE often then once in a while....

You asked for it . . . here it goes!

These are pictures of seeds I ws'd that I haven't removed from their containers . . .

This picture is of pale pink hollyhocks I received from EmmaGrace a year or two ago . . .

These are the yellow pear tomatoes and the red poppies . . .

These are the white cherry tomatoes and the edible green hibiscus . . .

There are only a few of the bronze gazania because there were only 4-5 seeds left in the packet . . .

These are from the seeds I collected from my yellow petunia last year. Since the yellow was a hybrid, I don't know what these seeds will turn out to be . . . maybe white, hopefully yellow, who knows?

These are the yellow butterfly weed.

This is verbena moss.

Still too much snow in the North East - give us about 3 more weeks :-)

Standing cypress . . .

Mexican sunflower 'Torch'

Scarlett butterfly weed.

What beautiful seedlings you have :-) Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. I'm glad I did this over the winter - it helped pass the time!

Awesome seedlings!

Winter sowing is the best cure for the winter time blues!!

Here are my baby hostas. In about two weeks I can up pot them. I have a few streakies gody goody!! BEV

Syrumani, great bunch of seedlings there! gives us northerners hope :0)

Bev - tell me about hosta. when did you start those, did you do anything special? I've never started them from seed before.

This is my first try at this!! I just planted in 8oz clear cups with holes in bottom with seed starting mix. Wet the mix and sprinkled the seed on top and put very little mix on top and sprayed water to moisten. I put them in a tote and put then in my aquarium under light 24-7. I planted them the 6th of Jan. and they came up the 19th. I water from bottom about every three days about 1in and let them soak it up. I also have them in a south window and open curtians in the daytime to give extra light. Here is the set up. BEV

Cool! looks like it's working :0) so I'll just have to take the plunge. they're very cute. thx.

Hello everyone... been some time since i have been to Daves garden....I have not started any seeds yet but i have some sitting here, my son wanted to experiment with seed growing...he is 11.

In the past i have started my seeds and they have done lovely, but when i go to put them babies in the ground they usually do not make it... any tips on planting these babies in the ground??? They usually seems a little weak and gangly and then by the 2nd or 3rd day they are dead :(

Here are some close ups tabasco. Bev

#1 Korean Snow
#2 Warpaint not Niagra Falls

#3 Warpaint not Niagra Falls

#4 streackies mix

# 5 streackies mix. I have Mr. Watson, Tiquilla Sunrise,& Gone Fishin that I will post later. BEV

Hello, Mercy. Welcome back! When you start your seeds, if you don't have a plant light or even a flourescent light to put them under, you want to put them in the brightest, sunniest window you have. If they are in a window, rotate them so they don't grow in one direction toward the light. You need a lot of light to keep them from getting those weak, gangly stems. Then when it is time to put them outside, they need to be 'hardened off'. This means you should put them outside for just a little bit at first, not in hot sun or wind, and bring them in. leave them out a little longer each day until they are used to being outside, over about 10 days or so. then plant them in some nice improved soil (add some compost and manure).

Winter sowing, by which we mean planting your seeds in an enclosed container of some kind and putting them right outside in the cold is fun, too. It would solve your problem because plants do not need to be hardened off and get plenty of light because they are outside. You get nice stocky plants with no weak stems. It's not too late in your zone to stick a few containers outside. here's an article to read to get you started

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/585/

your son is at a fun age to do some seed starting and planting. have fun!

~ jan

Geranium pratense 'Striatum' a.k.a. 'splish-splash' sprouted a few days ago:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/38295/

claypa! That's pretty exciting! Are your 'splish splash' outside or under lights?? I hope my WSed hardy geraniums sprout. I bought a packet from Thompson & Morgan and somehow I thought they wouldn't do a thing. Hope has returned. I never thought to collect seeds from my Splish splash I have in the garden. Is that what you did?

Yes, I agree, very exciting! I'm outside every chance I get looking at all the bulbs coming up and the WS containers...
They're outside on the front porch with all the other WS containers. I got the seed in a DG trade for some other geranium seeds I did collect (G. robertianum, some other G.'s). This year and last, the Geraniums were the first to sprout for me here.

I noticed these today (barely, they are TINY!!!) some goldenrod/Solidago that I don't know the name of. I've tried to get goldenrods going for years... last year I dug a clump from the side of the road and they did bloom here, but I'm not sure if these are seeds from them or another attempt.

Hi everyone, never post here before, maybe :~). But wanted to share my findings today, i WS about 20 containers back in November, and today i took a peek (not my first i tell you) and to my surprised two of my cups are in a rush i guess. Take a look...this one is Echinacea Purple

This one is Catchfly pink... now i am scared that we'll get a freeze one of these nights.

Welcome, Dulci.

Thanks for posting your seedling pics! You are getting some early ones for zone 6a! My echinaceas under lights aren't even coming up yet!

Show us your others when they come up! t.

this pic is a little dark and all these are in the house, its my first time growing seeds indoors, and I am having a battle with fungus gnats grrrr but so far so good...

I also have WSing jugs outside and they are buried under 10 inches of snow that we got last night!!! Happy Easter everybody lol

I have been potting up all kinds of Poppies in the last few weeks. I'll have to take pics tomorrow in the daylight. Here is one of my Lupines that I transplanted today. I may not go back to lights inside except for tropicals.

dylan: Why pot up poppies? They'd be fine to plant out now. Less work.

Karen

Hello, this is my first stab at wintersowing, and I just had to share - despite the cold weather and TONS of snow that keeps falling where I am, there are seedlings in my jugs already! I ventured out to the garden today (through all the snow, which is still on the ground), just to make sure the containers hadn't gotten knocked over or anything - and wasn't I surprised to see something tiny and green and alive in there! Wow, wintersowing is amazing. :-)

Here is clarkia elegans:

and here is clarkia amoena (looks pretty much the same as the elegans):

and here is Shirley poppy:

well... I dont have pics yet... maybe tomorrow -- but they are soooo tiny, BUT i have babies!!

it's my Black Peony Poppy and the Butterfly Blend from Burt's Bees.

2 out of 62 containers.