Post by Syble on Sept 2, 2006 16:43:55 GMT -5
Some of you may remember the following post about my water bottle method for starting seeds:
Re: Sarr seed question- should I try them outside?
« Reply #5 on Apr 29, 2006, 8:39am »
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The water bottle method is something I came up with after a few problems with stratifing sarracenia seed with out an enclosed area.
Start off with some clean water bottle, cut them nearly around about a third of the way up from the bottom, but not all the way, leave 2-3cm of plastic uncut. Flip it open and put a few inches of premoistend media in the bottom, firm it up a bit, sprinkle your seeds on, spray with a fungicide. Flip the top up, tape the seam all the way around so that it's tight, keep the lid on the bottle and voila! Your own personall individual mini gree houses! I'll do an illustrated story for the newsletter some time.
On a side note, mine are all beginning to sprout, very good germination rate again!
Thanks,
Sib
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Thought I'd give you guys an update and let you know why I love this method so much. I think I did about 58 bottles, some of the seed I was using was quite old and I didn't expect anything. Others were new to me, but how old that made them was a whole different matter! At any rate, the ones that grew, grew quite well, they all ended up getting moved from the back of my house to the garden area which, is in the middle of the side yard and completely exposed, sun all day. I got swamped during the summer and they got forgotten, and when I thought about them about a month latter, I just figured they'd all died, 100+ temp, full sun...yeah....
Well, I was cleaning up round there today and forced myself to look at them, low and behold they are actually doing quite well! Most of the ones that sprouted are still alive, there was the odd one that the seal broke and they dried out, and according to my notes, ones previously unsprouted germinated! there were 23 not growing and atleast 90% of which never had anything growing, but the remaining 35 are growing nicely! Everything from D. filiformis to dozens of hybrid and species sarracenia. I'll be bringing them in shortly to grow them over the winter under lights.
Thanks,
Sib
Re: Sarr seed question- should I try them outside?
« Reply #5 on Apr 29, 2006, 8:39am »
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The water bottle method is something I came up with after a few problems with stratifing sarracenia seed with out an enclosed area.
Start off with some clean water bottle, cut them nearly around about a third of the way up from the bottom, but not all the way, leave 2-3cm of plastic uncut. Flip it open and put a few inches of premoistend media in the bottom, firm it up a bit, sprinkle your seeds on, spray with a fungicide. Flip the top up, tape the seam all the way around so that it's tight, keep the lid on the bottle and voila! Your own personall individual mini gree houses! I'll do an illustrated story for the newsletter some time.
On a side note, mine are all beginning to sprout, very good germination rate again!
Thanks,
Sib
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Thought I'd give you guys an update and let you know why I love this method so much. I think I did about 58 bottles, some of the seed I was using was quite old and I didn't expect anything. Others were new to me, but how old that made them was a whole different matter! At any rate, the ones that grew, grew quite well, they all ended up getting moved from the back of my house to the garden area which, is in the middle of the side yard and completely exposed, sun all day. I got swamped during the summer and they got forgotten, and when I thought about them about a month latter, I just figured they'd all died, 100+ temp, full sun...yeah....
Well, I was cleaning up round there today and forced myself to look at them, low and behold they are actually doing quite well! Most of the ones that sprouted are still alive, there was the odd one that the seal broke and they dried out, and according to my notes, ones previously unsprouted germinated! there were 23 not growing and atleast 90% of which never had anything growing, but the remaining 35 are growing nicely! Everything from D. filiformis to dozens of hybrid and species sarracenia. I'll be bringing them in shortly to grow them over the winter under lights.
Thanks,
Sib