A week ago I planted 20 seeds in 10 peat cups in my tabletop greenhouse. These were:Convolvulus called Blue Enchantment. Yesterday there were 20 beautiful, healthy sprouts!!
Today they are even BIGGER!!
I feel like a new mother who just gave birth... to 20 babies??!!
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It's spring in my apartment!!
If I had known they would sprout so easily I wouldn't have planted so many!! Every one of the seeds came up!!
I'm over in my table-top greenhouse topic planning out how I'm going to grow and display them inside!
Cool....I'll go check it out!!
Oh, they are getting so tall already!! One is almost touching the top of the dome!!! In a couple of days I might have to take it out and put it in a tiny pot!!
He's the leader of the pack..the 'head honcho'...and then I've got the little runt of the litter
I did pot the biggest one in a small pot. the rest I finally had to take out of the greenhouse. They all fell over, so I had to put a glass over each one! (there went all my drinking glasses! I guess they now belong to my plants.) They stood right back up when I did that. They have thick, strong stems.
The Impateins are so thickly sprouted I am going to have to separate small amounts, somehow, so they don't choke each other out.
My columbine hasn't sprouted yet, but the packages said about a month, so I'm not fretting yet.
Oh, and today I bought two new plants! A bromeliad called Carly; beautiful flower in it's center; and a Shamrock Oxalis. The shamrocks are a good two inches across! I never saw anything like it. They are dark, dark purple (that is why I got it!!) and loaded with lavendar blooms, which, when I brought it home and watered it, they started opening; so cute!
I ordered seeds for a sweetwilliam and viola.
Cool Shirl....sounds like you are well on your way!!!
Originally posted by Shirley4:
Oh, and today I bought two new plants! A bromeliad called Carly; beautiful flower in it's center; and a Shamrock Oxalis. [/QB]
A bromeliad called Carly?
Ohhhhhhhhhh! Now I am going to be bursting with it all! Ha ha!
Yeah!! Carly! That is what name is at the top of the picture on the stick, stuck in the pot. Under the picture of the bloom it says VRIESEA. My plant has a beautiful bloom in the center. It's colors are red-orange, orange, and yellow; just like the picture!!
wow! shirl, sounds like your dome is working great!