Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Darren]

Looks like C. graecum to me Fermi.

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Darren,
My suspicion as well - but where did they originate?
I can only speculate that I emptied an ungerminated pot into the re-potting compost bin.
Must check my records.
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

- but where did they originate?

fermi

Greece?

I at last have a few things coming through from my post Czech sowings. Nothing wildly exciting yet but at least the process has started. I was thinking I must have done something terribly wrong, or somehow poisoned my compost or maybe put some horrid spell on the pots as there's usually SOMETHING within a couple of weeks. But of course I don't usually sow mid winter as I did this year. The weather is still cold here- several days with just 10 or 11 degrees, a frost every couple of nights and fogs on the inbetween nights.  But hundreds of small pots are sprouting every kind of bulb from last year's and the year before's sowings so lots happening. Still sowing though and yesterday I did 60 pots.

I'm going to sow some annuals this week, direct into the bare patches of a refurbished bit of garden. The little blue Charieis heterophylla, a daisy just a few cms high and of the most glorious blue, navy blue in the centre and occasionally available as seed, wrongly named Felecia bergeriana; the almost black form of single Papaver somniferum from Stewart Preston's seed and a little sweet pea called 'Pink Cupid.' Although this is available in the garden centres at present (and very expensively!)just as 'Cupid' and ostensibly bred by Dr Keith Hammett of Auckland, it is actually what we alpine gardeners in NZ have known for many years as "Bunty's Pea," Bunty being Bunty Roi who was in charge of the NZAGS seed list for many years and distributed this lovely thing to many people. It grows prostrate to about 12-15cms high and 50cms across and has a myriad of teo-tone pink sweet peas on short stems, with the typical and much loved fragrance of its taller relatives. It's great for little posies. The Charieis is seed kept going from my friend June Keeley who died in 1993 so it's been with me for quite a time now. All three of these plants, though just annual, now have special associations with wonderful people no longer with us.

My first task though is to work out some covering for the area as our three chooks, Tamara, Tatiana and Boris are great scratchers and this recently planted area is a favourite place for them.

[fermi de Sousa]

Some recent germinations:
first a general shot of a tray of seedling pots;
Lewisis rediviva - NARGS 2013
Calochortus concolor NARGS 2013
Crocus...from Marcus
cheers
fermi

[Excelsior]

Herminium monorchis to the right and Dactylorhiza trausteineri to the left germinating on cardboard. It seems that Dacts germinate quite easy with the cardboard-method, but the Orchis germinate poorly. Epipactis palustris have germinated quite well, but no sign to germination on E. atrorubens. 

[fermi de Sousa]

This is a potful of Rhodophiala bifida seedlings - I got the seed parent from Paul T in Canberra and the pollen came from Josie in Leongatha (Outtrim, actually)! The seed ripened while we were away and was collected for me by a neighbour - a real concerted effort to get these to grow!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

From this year's SRGC Seedex
Sorbus reducta
From NARGS
Chilopsis linearis
cheers
fermi

[Ivan McConachie]

Is it sad that I am all excited that the 2 pots of seeds I sowed on the 28th July have germinated....

They are from the few packets of seeds I got when I joined the SRGC.

The first one is Erigeron Compositus (Wild Collected) it germinated first, and I was rather surprised as I had resigned myself to the fact they may take some time.

The second pot is Silene Acaulis, not so many of them but I am happy to see some!!

This is my first attempt, so all I have to do now is try and keep them going 

Ivan

[Maggi Young]

That's the great thing about growing from seed  Ivan - every little seedling that appears is an adventure - the excitement never wanes!

[Lesley Cox]

Being spring here, there is something new every day at present, so an exciting time. Especially pleased to see a couple of seedlings of Lord Anson'e Blue Pea, Lathyrus nervosus as I have come so close to losing this glorious thing. And a handful of seed I grabbed just on the day we moved house, I couldn't remember what it was when I sowed it a month ago but it looked like alyssum pods though I don't recall having taken anything from an alyssum. I realized today, as it started to germinate overnight, it is the Coral Broom, Cordospartium stevensonii, a beautiful weeping small tree, apparently leafless and with a mass of small purple pea-type flowers. Must get the camera going.

[Maggi Young]

The Massonia seeds, stored at room temperature and planted 10 August and watered once, are up.

johnw

another germination  success  from John...

[johnw]

another germination  success  from John... (Attachment Link)

With however a lot of spoon-fed expertise from forumists!

johnw

[fermi de Sousa]

The Sorbus reducta shown last month are putting on a bit of growth!
Also from SRGC Seedex 2013, Prospero autumnalis,
and 2 from AGS Seedex 2013:
Daphne caucasica -3 of the 4 sown!
Albuca humilis,

cheers
fermi

[SJW]

Muscari macrocarpum (ex. Golden Fragrance), sown 7 June 2013, own seed.
Is it just me or are most of the M. macrocarpum on sale in garden centres from virused stock? The leaves never look quite right, to my eyes. Lovely scent though.

[Frank Cooper]

I wonder if the cardboard method would work for Xeric ferns to encourage long roots.