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I've transplanted numerous seedlings and even nursery-grown plants that had mold on top w/o a problem, I typically just take as much of the affected soil off the top during transplanting as possible. If the plants are healthy, I'd plant them. If the plants look sickly, I'd toss them.
Thanks tripsleb. You're right, I do. They're getting little root blisters, so I know I have to go deeper. I didn't realize I can pinch off the lower leaves and go really deep until I was researching this issue last night. I'll be doing that this weekend, and then putting them into their full-size containers. It's still a bit early here (NJ), but I can pull them into the garage at night if I need to.
Thank you!
Oh, Karen, we posted at the same time! It's going to be dreary here for the next few days, so keeping them out of the sun should be no problem :-)
Thanks for all the extra info. I'm writing it in my notebook right now! And yes, they're going into good-sized pots this weekend. I'm not supposed to have them out permanently until after Mother's Day, but with the pots, I can bring them when I need to.
Melissa
Zahzeen, we'd be outside playing all day during summer.
We'd hear the tinkling bells of the truck, run inside to quickly gather up our change and run back out to get ice cream for 10 cents...LOL. My mother would be yelling "You're going to ruin your dinner!" because the truck always came around 5 PM.
My father didn't get home for dinner until after 7 PM anyway...and we weren't allowed to leave the table until we cleaned our plates.
You brought up a great memory!
i wasn't sure that it was an apricot tree until i found the half shell yesterday around the same area. and the leaves look the same as apricot tree, so i am just assuming that they are apricot trees.
i got the seed directly from the apricots that i bought from the supermarket.
You could keep growing them as long as you have the space. Next time don't start quite so early. Beans are fast growers as you are finding out. I start mine in a seed sprouter and move them out when I see the first leaves. But you don't need to do that at all.
Here's what I've found; We have a somewhat short growing season in Maine. The sweet peppers I've grown (Carmen, Round of Hungary) usually fully ripen at the end of the season and some do not ripen at all. Three years ago I pinched off blossoms and got fewer ripe peppers and more unripe peppers.
This is pretty weak evidence since it was only one year but I think pinching off blossoms may delay fruit production.
Jon
I havn't done this for a while now but several years ago, I used to collect the seeds of "purple wave" petunias and when I started them the next year, I found that some were like the original, some had two colors and others were mostly pink so I think they start to go back to their original heritage. I don't know about others. Stan
I have collected the seeds of purple wave and planted them the next year.They germinated better than any other petunia seeds I purchased but mostly grew out to be a lilac silver color but retained their spreading habitat. They also reseed themselves readily in last years pots.
I once had a greenhouse and did many propagation experiments as a hobby. It was my experience that play sand was not the best sand. Play sand is usually round under a microscope and of different size grains so as dicot notes it tends not to be ideal.
In your OP you as about sand as a "primary ingredient". You plan to use sand and what?
This link may be of help
http://tomclothier.hort.net/page11.html
Here is a link that might be useful: About germination
If you are seeing green, I'd say plant them, skip the dark refrigerator - they are going to need light.
A seed is hypogeal when the cotyledons (green seed leaves) of the seed remain inside the seed - normally a hypogeal lily seed will produce a root (radical) during the first warm period, need to experience a chill before the cotyledons emerge in the second warm period.
I often start lily seeds and there is nothing unusual about the seedlings or the germination. The only reason I don't do more from seed is because it is so slow to grow to blooming size. Starting from scales is easier, faster and more sure. Al