Monday, February 8, 2010

Flower Update Week 2

It's Monday, and it's been a week since we started with our flower planting, so it is time for our weekly update.
We are still in our grow room, we haven't planted anything new since last week, but everything that we planted last week has sprouted!

The first photo is of our seed geraniums. The cotyledons (seed leaves) are fully open now for most of the varieties. Germination is very uniform except for Horizon Orange Ice (you can see them on the right side second flat from the bottom). If you look at the enlarged image (click on it), you can see that HOI is smaller and not all of the seeds have emerged -don't worry, that's normal! Germination is probably 102%. Geraniums seed is sold with 4% extra seeds, so a package of 100, actually has 104 seeds.
Next we have Salvia. So far, so good.  Salvia seed is tiny, so it is planted in rows.


Here is rosemary. It grows slowly and the seeds will germinate over the next three weeks.


There are four rows of plants in this flat. On the left is helichrysm (commonly called 'Licorice Plant'), the leaves are so small you can barely see them even on the enlarged image! The middle two rows are strawberries -again, the leaves are very tiny. On the right is Ptilotus Joey.

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