Flower Update Week 3

This week we planted a few more things: Emerald and Silver Falls Dichondra, most of the coleus, the first variety of petunias, and the second batch of Salvia. So far everything is going according to schedule. The photos are not very interesting, all we can really see now is growing media and small green leave. That will certainly change as the weeks go on.

The seed geraniums are starting to grow quickly, most varieties have started to put out a second true leaf, and by now nearly all of the slow pokes have sprouted.

Here's the Dichondra just coming up. Just think, in four months it will be trailing over three feet.

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The Ptilotus Joey (right row) and strawberries (middle two rows) are now visible, but the helichrysum (left row) is still hard to make out.

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.