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Old April 22, 2006   #43
betsylt
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Default seedling vigor & salt peter treatment

Hey there folks,

My least vigorous seedlings at this point appear to be Aunt Ruby's German Green. I was wondering if it's typical for them to have teeny-tiny cotyledons and start out looking especially wimpy?

I'll admit that those and some of my other seeds were older; I used the salt peter soaking treatment that Carolyn recommended (I think I saw her posting about it on GW originally) and I'm amazingly delighted with my germination rate on those oldies.

Gives a new/different meaning to "better living through chemistry," huh?

-BLT
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