Unknown seedlings

[angie]

I found a packet of seeds a few months ago. I had collected them and forgot to write on the packet 
Is it impossible to identify at this stage.
Angie

[fleurbleue]

Angie, small spots on leaves remind me Nicandra physaloides 

[Maggi Young]

http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile331.html  shows more about this plant and the seedlings, Angela.... may help......

[angie]

Angie, small spots on leaves remind me Nicandra physaloides  

I really can't believe that you have identified the seedlings. I had to google Nicandra physaloides and it solved the mystery.
When I was in Ireland last year I admired this plant in a nursery and the owner didn't have any plants for sale so he told me to help myself to the pods, which I did.  I put them in my carrier bag. The man wrote the name on my receipt but I forgot all about them.
Thanks for identifying them for me, well done  

Maggi thanks for the link.

I still can't get over getting it identified so fast. We have the best FORUM IN THE WORLD.

Angie

[fleurbleue]

I like this annual which reseeds freely each year in my garden. Glad to have been of help to you 

[angie]

Here I go again. Put the plant label down and cant find it. Anybody any idea, leaves are quite fleshy. Must be a easy plant if I have got them to this stage 

Angie 

[angie]

Nobody any ideas    I shall pot them up today. Because they have fleshy leaves I will pot them up in a sandy soil just in case they are some kind of succulent. I have nothing similar in the greenhouse so must have received it from a forum member.

Hans my massonia seedlings are shooting up. I am so happy. When should I prick them out, or should I leave them where they are for this season. See I am worrying about them already. I never had family god knows what I would have been like bringing up children.

Angie

[t00lie]

Hello Angie

They almost have the look of seedlings of the Chatham Island forget me not 'Myosotidium hortensia'  .

Cheers Dave

[Hans J]

Hi Angie ,

I can only tell you ...those seeds for this seedlings are not from me !

Maybe you should have a book for all your records if you get new seeds or plants - this is my way  
Also I have a folder in my PC with a record of all seeds and when they are sown and when germinatet ...

Great with your Massonia seedlings - let them where they are - you can repotting in next rest season .
Here also a lot of Massonia came up - many with buds ...so I will have a rich flowering season

All the best
Hans

[angie]

Hello Angie

They almost have the look of seedlings of the Chatham Island forget me not 'Myosotidium hortensia'  .

Cheers Dave

Hi Dave

Perfect, that's what they are. They are my own seeds and I do have a large plant of Myosotidum hortensia ( what a name ) in my greenhouse. I only did them last month. Please don't laugh. I have told you how hopeless I am. Really pleased that I have baby plants. I just thought it was a succulent as the leaves were thick. A bit like me then   thanks Dave, worth keeping them now.

Hans I am logging everything that I get now.  I log the plant, the person I got it from and where I have it.  I have a good teacher  This one slipped through. I think I shall put a notepad in my greenhouse as if I don't do it straight away I forget, scary to think what like I will be in a few years time.
Looking forward to seeing some wonderful pictures of your Massonia. I only have one showing leaves. I look everyday.

Thanks

Angie

[Hans J]

Angie ,

yes ...I know that we germans are always called the most pedantic people ( sorry )
I'm really not in all parts of my life so pedantic ( you can ask my wife ) 
But after a lot of years with plants I have realized it is impossibly to store all in my memory ....so I have always to write a lot of records - shure the writing work is more and more ...but a plant without a name or source is a big problem

Hans

[Darren]

Angie is not alone. Every New Year resolution for about ten years has been to 'keep better records this year'. It usually lasts until february..

[angie]

Hans I wish I had have the brain that you have. My worry is I have seen the difference in the last ten years in my ability to remember things. I am 55 well nearly so in another ten years what will l be like. This is one of the reasons I keep on this forum, keeps me busy and away from watching all these silly television programmes.
See I am sitting out in the sun having a coffee and a nice chocolate biscuit and speaking to a friend miles away from me. Who cares what I will like in another ten years 
I am proud to be half German 

Darren I think you are more organised than you think 

Angie

[Hans J]

Angie + Darren :

We say :
"The way to hell is paved with good intentions"

 

[angie]

 

Angie