Okay I'm getting seed fatigue

I have seedling in full light outside down to my last batch that should be germinating in a few days.

Hate to say it but I need these to all be outside in decent size pots so I don't have to do much to them. It's fun tracking down the seeds and getting them to grow but the stage in between sprouting and going in the ground takes more work then I want to do on a daily basis. I'm a serial overwaterer BTW. Need to get that under control next year. LOL. Think the problem is I have very different seeds, some fast to grow, some slow, some not showing signs of life. A couple that need heat etc. Can't wait to throw some cosmo seeds at the ground and notice a while later there are little cosmos everywhere. I like the easy self sowers.

I think I'm going to change my screen name to client 9. LOL.

Dang... CoreHHI..... you sound "just" like me! Started off with seeds in my bathroom, then moved to my husbands trailer, then to his boat, then to the old garage, then under the deck, and now out in the yard! I am so tired of moving these things. Next year.... only doing cuttings! Seeds are for the birds! Good luck!

I'm going to do some cuttings this year too. Never really have done cuttings before so this should be entertianing as to what I do wrong.

CoreHHI- regarding cuttings - I happen to be in a strange position, because I have land purchased between Hollywood, and Edisto (Yonges Island), but I presently live on Long Island, NY. I hope to be going to South Carolina in a few weeks, and transplant some of what I have here, and I intend to start cuttings of Aucuba and Hydrangeas. Do you have any experience with these? and, when I get my gardens started in the Lowcountry, are there better times to root cuttings of Gardenia, and Camellia?

Propagation: tips on rooting cuttings: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/597232/

Hydrangea propagation 2 Methods: http://www.hydrangeashydrangeas.com/propagation.html

Rose Cuttings - Old Garden Roses, by Paul Barden: http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/hulse.html

HTH ☺ ♥
~* Robin

Those hydrangea need to planted in shade around here BTW. Full sun and they will fry.
Camellias, good luck with rooting. I'm trying a method that stonoriver said he's used to root camellias so we'll see how that works out.


Yonges island was just in the paper for something. Think they have a problem with people doing voodoo there./ You know the dancing around with chickens and all that. Talking in tongues. etc.

Good luck in that hood.

Bad Core! Don't tell all our secrets or everyone will want to move here.

You can root your hydrangeas any season here; all you have to do is stick a cutting in a pot of soil and stand back. Mine air-layer themselves all over. It is sad to say but I composted about a dozen mopheads yesterday.

ardesia wrote:

Ardesia seems to be doing a clean out of the yard.

I didn't tell her about the "other thing". That's the bigger secret.

Trading has become such a bother since the postal rates went up. It is not fun for me anymore. It is probably hard to understand in Binghamton but so many plants multiply like weeds in this climate. It is either keep them under control or be buried. I do normally pot up the babies and sell them for the American Cancer Society but we are in the middle of remodeling our home and there just isn't any time or space right now.

Core, shushhhhhhhhh

I lived for a while around Bighamton and the plants grow so much faster down here that you probably won't understand until you have way to many of them or that 2 foot high bush you had in Binghamton is now 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide. LOL.

You got that right. Plants that are so well behaved in the NE are so naughty here. If we didn't have to fight the rampant growth we could have more time to trade........:-))))

Core - hehe "client 9"