Sprouts and Seedlings 2008! Any pics to share?!

I was just outside today checking all my jugs, and the only thing I have is Shirley Poppies and there calling for more snow tomorrow :( I am sooo sick of this weather, sure wish it would warm up and stay :o)

I have Sea Hollies!!!!! oh, and all kinds of dianthus too!

Nice warm day here at last- and 8 jugs sprouted.

Karen

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I am potting poppies for my first year with a retail GH.

Good luck, dylan. They should do fine. Poppies are tough.

Karen

Well, of my 34 containers eventually gotten around to, nothing started earlier than late Jan and most in Match, I have 2 sprouts to report - AND I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE! (geranium and coneflower) xx, Ms. NOID 2007

Carrie -- isn't that the best feeling when we know exactly what the babies are?? I had a lot of NoID's last year too.

Yep! It is!

Hello everyone, i have a question...

Once the seeds germinate, can i take the plastic protector off? Or leave it on to keep in humidity?
Thanks!

For me, it depends on the temperatures/weather.

warm days, i take them off to keep them from frying in the heat
cold nights, i'll put the tops back on to protect them a bit.

I am afraid of this temperatures changing so much. Will have to keep my eyes on them.
Thanks tcs

Dulci, I'm near by, and MY covers aren't coming off yet! x, Carrie

I'll probably open mine today to help them dry some. I use milk jugs, so I'll open them but leave lids attached at the hinge. If overnight temps below freezing are predicted, I'll close them for that time, open the next day.

I do love milk jugs.

Karen

Carrie it only makes sense for me to mimic your WS final steps. Our changes in weather are sure identical. LOL
kqc~ Withing the things i will do next year is use ONLY milk jugs, i used about 4 out of the 20 i put out. Those milk jugs are doing great.

I agree about the milk jugs. In my first year of WSing, I tried all kinds of containers, but found the jugs to be so much better in so many ways (soil depth, headroom, attached lid which doesn't collapse under snow). I also noticed that most of the experts, those who had been wintersowing for 4 or 5 years, used milk jugs.

Since our household is just my husband and me, we drink very little milk. I go to great means to get them from friends, neighbors, and coworkers. This year I found that one of my coworkers has a cistern and buys all of her water for drinking or cooking in gallon jugs- jackpot!!!

Karen

Karen, that's great about the jugs. cleaning should be a breeze...no sour milk ick.

I don't have any pics yet. It's just too cold out there to stay and take pictures. But I have 32 containers sprouted, so it won't be long now.

Seandor, I have Sea Hollies and dianthus, too!!

The cool thing is my sea holly seeds are "snatched" seeds from the college - I had gazillions which I shared with many DG members, so I am very happy that they sprouted!

OH -- I'll have to get my Sea Hollys going ... i almost forgot that i had them.

Sea Holly? You got a different name for that?

A lot of these things I grew up with, I just think of as "that blue spiny one" or "the pink fuzzy one". Actually the blue fuzzy one would be well, I forget the name, but I was surprised to learn that it grows tall!

Congrats everyone on everything! xx, Carrie

Ugggg. i had this reply typed and accidentally closed the tab... and i had no idea what thread i was on...

Found the lil envie

Sea Holly Eryngium Planum Blue
http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/perennials/Eryngium_planum.html

Here are all 3 of my Sea Holly's that I WSed this season:

1. E. planum

2. E. alpinum (endangered)

(sowed 9 nine seeds, just now only 1 came up 3months later)

3. E. ritro 'Veitch Blue'

- 2 sets stared at different times.

Seandor, I'm pretty sure mine are some of your 'snatched' seeds :0)

Ahhh, "blue fuzzy things" are ageratum. Came to me while I slept. Thank you for the name on the Sea Hollies; I shall go look them up! xx, Carrie

Well, i still dont have any pics, as my seedlings are so tiny... but i'm up to 13 out of 62 containers.

I think last year, we had a warm March ... most of my stuff had germinated by then... then we had that cold snap which killed a few seedlings.

I'm just hoping I get more than 20 .. or i'll be so disappointed.

You will, it's still early for your zone. As soon as your weather is consistently warm, they'll start popping.

Karen

Has anyone got a picture of Mock Orange? There were 3 others but I can't think of them now.

Terese, I'm sure you will. I was counting on more than 50%. (listen to me...like I'm an old hand at this. it's only my second year). I'm not sure what my percentage was last year. I was a little disappointed until I realized that if any more had germinated I never would have gotten them all planted LOL. I think I had about 80 containers last year. This year I have 144. And another 100+ in the house. Outside I have germ. in 84 plus a couple I haven't documented, so I'm already over my 50% target. I think it's going much better than last year, but it might just seem like it because I have more containers.

I have one tub of 24 with all annuals, and 20 have germ. already. That's cool, because I'm counting on them for color.

Whatever happens, don't get discouraged. These plants are almost free $-wise and almost free work-wise, too. Keep that in mind. Some of the failures will be seeds that are not viable. Nothing you can do.

Here's some of mine. can't identify because I just picked random shots. the upper left is one of the Rubbermaid containers.

grampapa great looking WS , I like the way you got in a mosaic form , how do you do that?

Linda the program is called LumaPix PhotoFusion. You can do all kinds of collages. this is just a quickie to show the seedlings.

www.lumapix.com

Thank you grampapa I don't know if my half working PC will let me download the program but it looks like a cool one to have : )

I did some in my printshop, not as nice as yours but I can play with some of the pictures, oh boy more fun stuff to do :)

Heres some of my winter sown pictures , I got to get tags for my plants , they just have numbers and when I'm down looking at them I forget my code book : ( so going to give my plants their names tags : )

This is a great way to get more pictures in one shot , thanks again

Jan, are those seedlings in your bags? Is that what you mean about Rubbermade?
xx, Carrie

Great collage, grampapa-- you got some pretty good germination in your baggies! My baggies are still out there waiting to take off for the most part...are you going to ID your collage photos for us?

Linda--your seedlings are pretty big yet your zone is colder than mine--did you have your containers in a really sheltered spot?

I've had pretty good germination so far though. Things that haven't germinated include some liatris that I was skeptical about to begin with and some eupatorium seed I collected from a nursery plant (hybrid) and maybe that was sterile seed...I have others too that are yet to show but I'm still hopeful on those.

I'll take some pics tomorrow.

Any more seedling photos to share?

I'm so tickled that I know what my sprouts are that I haven't taken any portraits yet! My bachelor buttons are ready to be planted out. . . . xx, Carrie

I haven't taken any seedling pictures. In fact, I don't think I've EVER taken them in the past 2 years. I like to take pictures of pretty blossoms! I have pages and pages of summer blooms. I think my photobucket album for last year was 14 pages.

The weather is supposed to be pretty bad for the next couple of days. Maybe I'll snap some pics when the sunshine returns.

Karen

tabasco, I have them on the ground facing the south in full sun. I do cover them up tho when temp drops or its a pour down. I use a tomato cage in the center to hold up plastic cover so it won't damage plants that are growing over the top of coffee cans.

I took the plastic off everything b/c it was getting pretty warm and they needed to dry out a bit.

I think so far for my first year WSing, it's working out great and the plants look so healthy.

Linda, lookin' good! I really like those coffee cans, The seedlings really look better than inside ones don't they? Ya gotta love it.

Carrie, yep, those are my bags. The Rubbermaid container is the big one in the pic. They hold 24 of the bags.

Judy, I just picked a bunch of seedling shots at random for the collage, so I can't identify them. just lazy. I took almost 50 pics that day and I'm still working on cataloging them for my database. I have the list of what's in the containers printed out and take it with me when I go out, and I numbered it when I took the pics, but I forgot that I took more than one of a couple of them because the first one was blurry or whatever.

here, try this one. I added some labels

That is soooo super neat grampapa. I'm going to try and work on getting my pic to look like that. I want to be a copy cat : )

I made my lables last night out of cut up mini blinds so I know what I'm looking at ,lol.