6,340 Garden Web Discussions | Growing from Seed
The photo you supplied is that of asters. I have never seen an orange aster but have seen red. The seedlings you have are an annual and they look great. Perennial asters have a narrower leaf. If you plant them beware of leaf hoppers. They love asters and cause a disease called aster yellows.
Too late now, cuz you've already had your rainfall, but I would have tipped a seed flat/s over the seeds to help dissipate the rain. I do that when reseeding small areas of grass- helps keep it cool, keeps birds and other pests from pecking at the seed, etc.
P.S. Newest research dispels the old theory of putting rocks into the bottom of your pots. Now, they say best thing is to keep the same medium throughout your pot.
What kind of clematis seeds are you planning to try? Different species have different requirements/germination times. Easy ones like C. alpina and tanguitica would be fine now. Hybrids take several years to flower from seed so it's not too late for those either, though late winter/early spring would be better.
Are you possibly on a well, using well water to water with? If so try using jugged water.
Given all you have tried with no luck then there must be a common source of contamination and it seems the water or the air in the room are the only sources left unexplored. Changed the furnace filter? I know it sounds weird but the fungus has to be coming from somewhere.
Dave
We don't have Menards in this part of the country so I don't know exactly what tray you mean, but I wonder if the recycled paper trays don't have some of the same moisture issues as the peat can...very hard to control moisture, they are either too wet or too dry (paper/peat wicks water from the sowing medium). One recycled paper tray product that came prefilled was mentioned earlier, brand TerraCycle - or something similar to that. The sowing medium was one component, pure worm castings which didn't seem to make sense...the tray compartments were quite small so clearly for newest seedlings which don't need that rich of a growing medium when all nutrients required for germination, initial early growth are contained in the seed itself.
Just an update folks about my calendula. I saw flower buds today. I direct sowed all my calendula seeds. They were very easy to grow similar to cosmos. Cleome was a bit more challenging but my experiment produced 99% germination.
Anyways, here is my calendula flower bud. :)
Hi Virt - How are you? I remember meeting you at the swap. I planted some castor beans about 4 weeks ago. I planted some in the ground and some in a half-barrel planter. Only one of three sprouted in the planter, and none in the ground. It had been pretty cool, so I'm guessing that is why the one's in the ground didn't sprout. I've planted some more seeds in some peat pellets. When they sprout, I'll set them in the ground.
Yes Karenrei has a point. Too much of something can kill your plant whether watering or fertilizer. Everything should be in moderation. The most important concern for palm tree planting is the quality of the soil, weather tolerance, sunshine and compatibility of a particular variety before planting it.
I hope this helps you.
Thanks
I knew this plant needs less water and also I bought miraclegrow cactus mixed soil and transplanted this plant in a slightly bigger pot. Transplanting was such a pain as it pricked my hands. I do not see any worms or anything but some small flying flies like insects hovering over it.
I do not see any fungus growth anywhere... but the leaves were turning yellow... I gave miracle grow fertilizer 1 tablespoon mixed in one gallon of water gave to two sago plants and some more plants. Both sago and another palm plant died.
I tried to put them at south facing window along with my seedlings and all of them have those tiny flies hovering over them now... My okra, egg plant and some flowers died indoors which were near to this plant. One palm I do not know its name I had put in the soil to see whether it will show me some sign of life and also planted some seeds, everything in that pot died!
Learned big lesson.... keep the suffering and ailing plants away from the seed and seedlings!!!
Even now the sagos are lying outside in the garden, could not dump them in the garbage...
If you are using a cool bulb it's ok for the plants to touch the light. Next time time leave the light alone a few inches above the plant. Don't make the plants use their energy to play catch up with the light. Also put a fan in the room so the seedlings are gently moved around by the air current. Doing this benefits seedlings because it causes them to grow shorter, stockier and more hardy. It's a form of mechanical stimulation that causes thigmomorphogenesis.
Thanks Kandm
I'm not sure of what kind of bulbs i have. I bought the light table specically to grow seedlings. It came with the bulbs. OK, next time i'll them the zinnia a little further from the light and add afan but even still i think they were on the way to legginess. What about the lack of buds? Why do the zinnia show no sign of budding.
Quite honestly i'm thinking of pulling them out and redo my garden (which is VERY small, btw) with some showy annuals Thanks again!
Dale
ps what's thigmomorphogenesis.
Salicylic acid is known to block synthesis of abscisic acid (the reverse is also true, its pretty complicated). Abscisic acid is involved in producing seed dormancy and also in promoting seed germination. It may be that supression of abscisic acid in some seeds removes a dormancy while suppression in others prevents germination. There is certainly every reason to believe that there will be some effect.
Two weeks ago, my father (who lives in AR) showed me the difference in two sets of okra plants resulting from some seeds being soaked in gasoline and the others in just water.
The ones soaked in gasoline looked like they had been planted a week earlier!
Thanks for the help! I've transplanted them already. My biggest seedling, I've had to clip the root at the bottom as it was growing out of a small hole in my makeshift box. I couldn't just slide it up. I hope that this doesn't kill it! I'm crossing my fingers now.
