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I found these today. Anyone use them?

Here is a link that might be useful: quad thick trays

I had that problem too. Finally I just ordered triple amount of flats from on-line supplier and tripled them up. The cost is more at first, but I am so happy I finally did that. 3 trays stacked together makes them sturdy enough that I can move them back and forth without worry. The sun does make them brittle, and after awhile cracks right in the middle started to form, but so far they are still holding up great.

I'm not nearly coordinated enough to maneuver two full trays at once without accidently dropping one!

I cannot find Zizia aptera plant anywhere except Prairie Moon Nursery, which is closed for the season.

The germination process for this plant is long and laborious -- involving stratification in sterile sand.

Furthermore, the seeds are miniscule.

If anyone has extra plants I would be interested in discussing with you buying several of them.

Thanks.

I have started Zizia aurea from seed (received in a trade and then winter sown), got one sprout, and after a couple years it has produced 1 seedling so far.

I received a division of Z aptera in a swap 5 years ago and it has self-sown 5 or 6 small seedlings in the garden, however, that garden bed is now grown up with perennials, so it is difficult to locate and confirm the seedlings. Jock feel free to email me in the fall and I can see if there are extra seedlings.

If you can't find germination info at any of the above, B & T World seeds lists 35,000 seeds and has germination info on many of them.

B & T World Seeds search page

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/41278/PDF

There are two other supplements. (Search on Google)

This lil cherry tomato plant was home depot stupid lil 1.99 tomato plant -less than 12" tall - 2 months later j have way too many lil tomatos - Its off the chart... i give it the same food

I use that tomato food, too. I put some in a spray bottle at full strength for foliar feeding, too.

Hot peppers usually take two weeks to sprout. My ghost peppers did poorly. Few sprouted and those that did were sickly. My Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers really took off, though.

Mine were eaten last year by deer. I put a fishing line fence around them to no avail.

This year they are inside the fenced vegetable garden and are growing strong - in fact providing shade where shade is not wanted. I am growing the Mammoth kind - 8 feet is the max height.

Interesting plants.

Mine are actually growing awesome. I am very new to this and just sprinkled some seeds in a patch if soil back in April. Sunflowers have actually been the easiest for me!! Little maintenance.

The Pro Mix I am using is PGX and it "designed for plug and germination growing"

Its not a problem to keep using the same soil mix over and over but your going to have to add nutrients to the soil if you do. Every fall/winter, I clean my trays, containers and tools with soap and bleach. Come spring I use whatever cheap soil mix (that wasn't stored outside) I can get my hands on. I add perlite or vermiculite and worm castings to the mix. I've been doing that for a couple of years and its work for me.

I think there is a thread with different methods that might work for you.

Are you saying you shouldn't use seeds from the previous season and always buy fresh?

No, although you could have a problem with good germination from some seeds if you've had them in your warm garage. It's fine to keep seeds from year to year, depending on which seed, a few types are not good held over under any circumstances and the package will usually say something along the lines of 'short viable'. Onion, parsley, delphinium are examples of seeds you may not want to store...

You asked when to start acquiring new seeds to fill your wish list, and to that I answer Not now, because you will be getting seeds packaged last season, wait until right around the holidays when the new harvest will be available. If you are buying new, you may as well begin with the freshest.