Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Carolyn]

Veronique,
That depends on what seeds you are germinating! If it’s eranthis, hellebores, etc then no, they will be fine. The temperature in my greenhouse was -6C this morning. A bigger problem here just now is that it is very sunny and the greenhouse temperature can rise quickly. Sometimes the door is frozen shut and I have to wait till I can open it.

[Yann]

My greenhouse is kept at 4°c, yes you can bring pots to the garage. Most bulbils can resist such frost.

[Véronique Macrelle]

germinating, in what was already visible, I had
Papaver (s)
cistus
mutisia
Gagea
Narcissus
 Tulipa
Clematis
 

 I got gagea and mutisia in the garage

[Robert]

F₁ Epilobium hybrids



F₁ Erythranthe hydrids.

Crosses of E. cardinalis x lewisii going both directions, and using both the red and golden-yellow forms of Erythranthe cardinalis.

[Mike Ireland]

Lewisia cotyledon & tweedyi have germinated this week.
Last year only one Lewisia tweedyi germinated in the tray, the plant can be seen on the left of the photo, twelve months later the tray is covered in seedlings.

[Véronique Macrelle]

I will then go see my pot of Lewisia from last year!

Mutisia spinosa
Nelumbo nucifera

[Leucogenes]

Here again the proof that a little patience is sometimes rewarded...Allium douglasii (sown on 28.12.2018)

[pfirsich48]

how do you keep your pot looking so pristine for over two years?

[Leucogenes]

how do you keep your pot looking so pristine for over two years?

Unfortunately, I cannot solve this riddle. Some pots seem to be immune to moss...others, however, are susceptible to it. Although I used the same substrate and cover (grit).

It is also a mystery to me why pots with identical contents of one species show such different germination behaviour. Seeds of one batch, sown and watered at the same time. Not a single seedling in one pot, many young plants in the other.

I suspect that this phenomenon does not only occur with me... is it?

[Tristan_He]

This is such a tricky balance. I generally use perlite as my top dressing because it gives good drainage, holds a little water and has good light penetration. The white colour may also help buffer extremes of temperature. On the whole it gives excellent germination results.

But it also seems to be very prone to growth by mosses and liverworts (a problem anyway in our high rainfall climate). The mosses aren't so bad because seedlings can generally grow through, but the thalloid (flat) liverworts form an impenetrable covering. I'm always worried about removing seed when I weed them out.

I now have quite a lot of granite chips left over from a project, so I may experiment with this to see if it is less vulnerable to liverwort growth.

[Rick R.]

I usually use granite grit to prevent liverwort growth and to help keep chipmunks and squirrels from digging in my pots. 

[Jan Jeddeloh]

Robert, great minds think alike.  I too am fooling around with hybridizing erythranthe.  I've been using the Annie's Annuals lewisii x cardinalis putative cross (if you look it up use mimulus) and then crossing that with yellow cardinalis and straight lewisii. I've gotten several pinks like the attached.  I've also got seed of F2 generations waiting to be sown. Of course with erythranthe you get masses of seed when it works. What I'd really like is a smaller, more compact mimulus to work with. Anyway here's a picture of one of my crosses.  Excuse the lousy background.

Jan

[ashley]

Some mouth-watering germinations above

Gagea fibrosa
Primula auricula
Ranunculus creticus
Scopiolus hallii
Stylophorum lasiocarpum

[Mike Ireland]

Herman the seed you sent in July last year of Trillium chloropetalum giganteum has started to germinate.

Mike

[Véronique Macrelle]

oh, the beautiful trilliums! I would like to get such a lift on my fresh Chloropetalum seeds! I thought it would take them several years.

what beautiful germinations Aschley!
Stylophorum lasiocarpa: were they fresh or stored seeds?