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Wed, Mar 24, 10 at 11:50
| hello,
I have some jiffy peat pellets which are 3 years old and some which are a year old. Can I still use them for seed starting? or should I buy new peat pellets. They were stored in a cool dry place, so they are not soggy or damaged in any way. Any suggestions recommended. I did use the search function, but could not find any older posts about this topic. thanks. |
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- Posted by oilpainter 3 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 24, 10 at 15:39
| Sure you can use them |
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| Here you go. You can use them if you want to but if you read through some of these you may change your mind. Dave |
Here is a link that might be useful: Peat Pellet discussions
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- Posted by tn_veggie_gardner 7 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 24, 10 at 18:31
| Yea, as long as they have not gotten wet/soaked by anything other than water, moldy, etc., you should still be able to use them. Just rememeber to remove that netting & pot up sooner than normal (as soon as root start to show on bottom of pellet) and you will be fine. =) |
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| Great!!, then i will go ahead and use them. I had lots of them left over from last year and didn't want them to go to waste. Dave thanks for the link, not sure why other people had problems. I have had great success with peat pellets. As soon as I see germination in the pellets, I put them under lights for 3-4 weeks and then transplant the plants (after removing all netting) into plastic cups filled with seed starter mix and leave them under lights , till I am ready to plant outside. |
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