Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Cfred72]

In the glass house, the Tulipa sylvestris emerge from the ground. The seeds which had been sown at the same time, on the first of September under the surface gravel and watered, also germinated.

[meanie]

A small forest of Anigozanthos manglessii..............


Canna altensteinii three weeks after scarifying the seed............


Solanum pyracanthum..........

[sokol]

Fast germination of Corallodiscus kingianus. I hope they are growing on so well. Haberlea didn't germinate within the same period.

[Jupiter]

Is anyone here intimately familiar with the North American phlox? I've had this seedling come up in a pot which could be recycled potting medium, I can't recall, but it does remind me of some of the phlox I tried from seed last year with limited success. I did sow Phlox diffusa. Could it be that?

[fermi de Sousa]

Is anyone here intimately familiar with the North American phlox? I've had this seedling come up in a pot which could be recycled potting medium, I can't recall, but it does remind me of some of the phlox I tried from seed last year with limited success. I did sow Phlox diffusa. Could it be that?

I wouldn't be discarding it!
Looks hopeful, Jamus, but I've never raised it from seed,
cheers
fermi

[Robert]

Is anyone here intimately familiar with the North American phlox? I've had this seedling come up in a pot which could be recycled potting medium, I can't recall, but it does remind me of some of the phlox I tried from seed last year with limited success. I did sow Phlox diffusa. Could it be that?

Jamus,

It does not look like Phlox diffusa which I see in the Sierra Nevada, but as Fermi says "I wouldn't be discarding it!" 

[Gabriela]

Jamus,
I think the safe way to put a name to this type of Phlox is to wait for flowers.
Meanwhile here is a link with trusted images; open at P. diffusa but you can look up for other NA species.
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=any&rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=Phlox+diffusa&rel-namesoup=matchphrase&where-namesoup=&rel-location=matchphrase&where-location=&rel-county=eq&where-county=any&rel-state=eq&where-state=any&rel-country=eq&where-country=any&where-collectn=any&rel-photographer=contains&where-photographer=&rel-kwid=equals&where-kwid=&max_rows=24

[Jupiter]

Thanks guys, I will put it in its own pot and wait and see! If it's a weed I'll be embarrassed. 

[David Nicholson]

If it's a weed I'll be embarrassed. 

Why? We've all done it, my crops of weeds are notorious

[Jupiter]

Hey check out this excellent website I just found. http://tchester.org/plants/analysis/phlox/phlox_austromontana_diffusa.html 

I'm now fairly certain it's a Phlox, one of those I ordered from Alplains seeds two years ago (otherwise there's no good explanation for how it got here!)

Funny story, it's in a hanging pot under our pergola which Rebecca planted a succulent (string of bananas she calls it). This is how it goes;

Rebecca comes to me, I bought this plant, have you got any potting mix?
me: don't use my special alpine mix, I need it!
Rebecca: but it's a succulent, it will like that mix
me: Here use this recycled stuff, I'm finished with those pots.

There's a Viola in the pot too... I'm curious, but if I'm honest with myself it's probably just labradorica.

[Lesley Cox]

I've had a couple of the high phloxes from seed, (Ron Ratko's seed) and had them germinate but not grow on for very long. Jamus, yours looks to me very like a phlox (but which?) but it doesn't look like a seedling to me. It looks like the plants that grow from broken root, root cuttings in effect but I suppose that's not likely if the seed was from just last year. It doesn't look like a NEW seedling though.

I have some more SRGC germinating at the weekend, Scutellaria orientalis and S. o. glandulosissima and 2 of 6 seeds of Rheum delavayi. I had this for many years then lost it during the shift down here. I think it was covered with autumn leaves too long and didn't come up the following spring, so it's a great thrill to have the seedlings.

[Lesley Cox]

Have re-read the first note Jamus and here's what I think has happened. Maybe you threw out the pot of seed mix to recycle and perhaps a very small seedling was there or just below the surface. It has perhaps died off in its green parts but the root has kept alive and now has come to the surface and grown on. Think of the way a seedling of Californian thistle behaves. If you don't get the ENTIRE root, even from the tiniest seedling, it will sprout and come up again bigger and brighter and more determined than in the beginning. Phloxes of all persuasions will do this too. It's how I propagate P. bifida for instance, from root rather than from leaf cuttings.

[Jupiter]

Yes I think you might be right Lesley. Yesterday I tipped out a tube with Townsendia spathulifolia which I thought had died and found a very healthy looking bulbous crown and extensive roots. I've repotted that carefully. I think the Phlox could easily have done the same "deciduous" trick.

[Jupiter]

A good healthy root system. Now potted carefully and labelled Phlox (?)

[Lesley Cox]

That looks really good Jamus. Now we can look forward to seeing the flowers, perhaps this coming spring.