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Wed, Apr 13, 11 at 7:52
| Yep! I had the day set aside to plant out some of my WS seedlings that are outgrowing the milk jugs and we have had heavy rain since last night. It is supposed to clear out of here by early afternoon. I was going to set out Calif. poppies, blue flax, larkspurs, and Patty's plum poppy but maybe I had better wait until it dries up. Don't relish playing in the cold, damp soil. Should I pinch back any of the seedlings when I plant out? This is weather for ducks! Quack! Quack! I've been up since before 5 am..I'm going down for my first nap of the day. LOL! |
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| Story of my life. We got over 2" of rain Mon & Tues when I was off. Today I went back to work and it's 62 degrees and sunny. And I'm still trying to do clean-up from last fall. My Mom got sick then and I never finished. Karen |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, Apr 13, 11 at 16:12
| Hello Pippi, I usally transplant right before it rains or soon after. It cuts down on the watering. For thicker plants, I would def. pinch back. |
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| I planted some of my seedlings out today that were outgrowing the milk jug. Calif. poppy, morella cherry lupine, dwarf purple alyssum and some blue lupine. From the 2 in. of rain we had yesterday or night before, the soil in the jugs is still so wet. I find that so many of the seedlings are spindley. Is that because of all the rain we've had this month? I'm very tempted to replant some of them in a 4 in. nursery pot until they get stronger. I know that's an extra step for me but I thought it might help them get stronger. Maybe sit them outside during the day when it's in the 50-60's and take them inside the garage at night and put back out the next day. |
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| I took advantage of the great weather today. It is a bit breezy and not as warm as yesterday but I opened up any milk jug that had sprouts so they could "harden up" and I took some of the ones that had just a few seedlings showing and transplanted them into 4 in. nursery pots. I've gathered what I have left to plant out and if temperatures drop tonight, I'll put them in the garage and bring them back out tomorrow. We have had so much rain that so many of them look so spindley. I pinched the blue flax back and that about killed me to do that. If weather is again nice like 60 and above, I'll work on planting some more out tomorrow. Can the wintersown seedlings survive 44-47 degrees? |
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