A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Plant Propagation seeds sprouted...

Most were planted 18 days ago.
This first one is cannas seeds. I cant believe they grew.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f8/psychobubba/P4011167.jpg

flowers
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f8/psychobubba/P4011166.jpg

and these are morning glory's
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f8/psychobubba/P4011168.jpg

I love this time of year

how many seeds do you put in each cell?

I'm impressed, Sheri!

I'm getting nowhere with my seeds; I've got a few I've collected from last year - roadside stuff, etc.

But nothing's happening.

Then again, it could surprise me.

That first picture - the canna seeds? What exactly are those 'bag-like' things they seem to be growing in?

(I'd love to get some canna and calla lilies going - I think I'll take a walk round the neighbourhood and see who's going to be thinning theirs.)

I put 3-4 seeds per pod. The cannas I put one each.

I found them at Menards. They are peat moss and they work great. I have used them for years.

I've never grown cannas from seed. Keep us posted.

I will, I will. I have never done this before either but the DH said lets try it. He collected all the seeds and saved them for me. I am excited since my other cannas rotted. They got all wet during our flood and they had to be tossed in the compost pile.

Congrats dhuber! I definately have to start some seeds of my own soon hehe You should move the canna ASAP now that they've sprouted to a 3 inch pot (before roots start poking through the mesh. The mesh doesn't break down in soil, and will sometimes restrict root growth. The roots don't just don't spread outside the netting. Also, you'll have to thin the seedlings to one seedling per cell or transplant each seedling to its individual cell (they're not enough soil and nutrients to sustain 3-4 seedlings in the cell).



Carly, send me your addy. I have some canna seeds that I can give you. I would bring you some canna seedlings but I don't have time to get around much with evil 'school' lol

Not to scare you xP but these are pepper plants that someone I knew grew. They didn't grow much and produced poorly, so he dug them up to see what was wrong at the end o the season and saw this. So do remove the netting prior to planting.

OMG I will change them out tonite!!!

That's what I said when I saw those pictures. I did a few pellets this year too and will make sure I remove the netting once I transplant some more of them.

The funny thing is, I've never removed the netting when I sow in peat pellets and they all grow fine. I guess it's have vrigorous the plant is that determine haow easily it can 'overcome' the netting. The abutilon standard that I bought last year still had the netting on (you could see it where the plant me the soil) and it flowered and grew fine for me. I was outside cleaning up and dumped out the abutilon and there was a thick mat of roots lining the pot (the roots managed to grow outside the netting). I always start my castor beans and they do fine in peat pellets. if you're not going to remove the netting, keeping the pot moist will encourage the roots to move out. A heating mat will encourage faster root growth as well.

Kennyso, I did quite a bit of transplanting yesterday, and yes some of the roots did go thro' the netting, yet others were still contained inside of it. I'm just going to make a habit of taking it off, sure not hard to do.

I liked the results that I got with the peat pellets. I did my cabbage, cauliflower and broc. in them and they're growing beautifully. So much better then when I planted them together and had to pull them apart to transplant. I love the thought of being able to transplant the ones that are ready with their second set of leaves and leaving the others to keep on growing.

Here they are in 3'' pots
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n269/psychobubba_2006/P4111188.jpg


then in the ground.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n269/psychobubba_2006/P6091449.jpg

that was 3 weeks ago. I am behind on everything
this is so fun, i hope they bloom