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It depends on how old they are and how they have been stored. If stored dry and at room temperature, like Morz said, they go bad very quickly.

I think I may be out of luck then. Thanks.

Exactly what I'm going to try. Thank you very much.

Gary

I grow lots of poppies and don't find them to be a problem if, as stated above, you thin to one in each pot and don't bother the root ball. So for the ones in your cell packs thin the seedlings to one in each pot. If you need to pot up just transplant the whole cell, as Campulana described.

I adore poppies, just wish the flowers would last a bit longer.

project_gardener

Thank you! Found seeds I thought I'd never see.

Thanks for Sampleseed found some unique flower seeds I wanted to try.

susanzone5 z5NY on
Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 16:05

you can avoid fungal growth by having air circulation and sprinkling powdery sphagnum moss on top of seeded soil.

I'm glad to see someone mentioning this. In the university laboratory I found sprinkling powdery sphagnum to be quite helpful.

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I start them in plastic six paks by sprinkling seeds on top of soil. When planting out, I break apart the plants and plug them into the ground about 5" apart. I don't bother to thin out any plants. Each plug has up to six seedlings. They fill out nicely.

great responses, thank you! That helps a lot. I went ahead and sowed them more thickly. I'll do the pinching as suggested as well!

I missed this "The effects of that stress will vary with plant types but summer vegetables such as pepper and tomatoes plants will not tolerate it at all."

If my pepper plants are stressed from my system they sure don't look it. The pepper seeds were sown ~ February 15th.

I'm going to try my hand at growing my own tomatoes from seed. A friend gave me seeds for a heirloom Iris tomato. So I am grateful for all of the info on hardening off. Now if I can just do while working full time.

Here's one for you. A couple of years ago we visited my son-in-law's grandmother's home. She had a rosemary bush 8" to 10" trunk diameter They had just cut it back & got a pickup truck load of rosemary but it was still about 5' tall. She said that she started that "tree" some years back with a sprig from a neighbor which she rooted by putting it in a glass of water until she saw roots & then planted it. It was in a raised bed. I so liked it that I bought the largest rosemary plant I could find, made a 3'x3' raised bed just for it. It is growing fine but heaven knows how long it will take it to get any size. I am going to prune off branches at the lowest point to help the trunk reach a greater diameter sooner. That tree was unbelievable!!

I just have to say that I planted 44 rosemary seeds and have 8 seedlings about and inch to an inch and a half tall. I had 14 of them germ, but I think some were a bit small when I put them under the light and they didn't make it. I am still pretty happy with 8. I did the primed rosemary from Swallowtail. They germ. in about a week. I might have to try again next year just to see if it was a fluke or something :).

Some digital thermometers have calibration adjustments. It may rally be off, or the heater my b off.

Thanks folks! I tried placing the probe of the digital heat mat thermometer directly into one of the flats & that fixed my problem (ie, gave me an accurate reading), after I'd cooked several flats of seeds, of course...........

I've never had an issue with putting the probe in a separate plastic cup of wet growing media, in years past....... Hmmmm........