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#16
Hi Uli,

Thank you.

No, they are in a secure position and there is no chance of any sort of disturbance, and if I move them I am careful. I placed them away from the window under a 15W LED lamp, and the jug holding water is enclosed in a large plastic ziplock bag. Maybe I should open the bag? The temperature is around 20oC during the day and slightly less at night where they are. I did not want to put them on the windowsill or even close to the window because there would be substantial temperature fluctuations (from around 14 at night to 28oC on a sunny day).

I used tap water, as others observed they had better results with tap water. I do live in a hard water area though - I suspect that might affect germination to some degree, but most likely would not cause root detachment, would it...?

Yes, I got two packets specifically to try one in the spring and one in the autumn. There were very mixed opinions regarding the best seed starting time in that discussion, so I wanted to see for myself.

I could maybe try planting some, but from what I read, most people observed that when they planted seeds with roots which did not have any leaves yet, they all died.

Have you tried that Uli?

#17
Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and my apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place.

I have read a lot about the floatation method for germinating seeds in the Topic of the Week, and I am currently using it to germinate some Rhodophiala bagnoldii seeds I ordered from Chile. I am based in the UK, so we have spring now. I got two packets, each was supposed to be around 30 seeds, but the one I opened had over 60 - and I would say almost 100% of them germinated. They still have not grown any leaves though. It has been a week since I put them in water, they started developing roots after maybe 2 days, but now some started dropping the roots, which float on the surface detached from the seeds. I have counted around 5 or 6 so far, but I am worried they will all do it and that will be the end of it.

Has anyone encountered this issue before with this method and Rhodophiala seeds? What did you do?

Thank you,

Piotr