seeds were planted in sunshine seed starter in plastic 6 or 9 unit cells. i get a compressed bail, and use it over several years. planted five seeds of each variety initially. after 10 days started the remaining seeds after seeing what germinated. i placed the planted seeds in a large empty plastic spinach container, the kind you buy in the produce section of your grocery store. works good for an incubator. they were placed underneath our wood stove to germinate. warm area, not too warm.
all seeds were planted 8 or 9 seeds of each variety. here is what happened.
alices egypt 4 germinated, 2 helmet heads, 2 plants repotted
bulgarskoye chudo 3 plants
colgar papuo zero germination
honey and sugar 1 plant
novosadski jabuchar zero germination
reinhards chocolate heart 4 plants
Reinhards purple heart 1 plant
i typically have lower germination with seeds from our seed offers. i don't know why that is. just an observation.
started in the same manner, i have 14 year old seeds that germinated with no special treatment. those ones are a red field cherry cross that came out of craigs north carolina garden most were weak helmet heads, but i have 3 plants growing from this rediscovered project.
keith
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