Seed germination
Marguerite English (Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:21:13 PST)
I've had some of these, also. I have several 4 inch pots that germinated in 2001, then didn't show any growth (or I missed it) thereafter. I barely bothered to water them last summer; they were outside in the shade. I've been dumping some of those into my raised beds to give them a final chance, and keeping the label with them. I have found tiny bulblets in 3 of those pots, and one Romulea had started showing a green shoot. They are amazing little critters.
At 09:25 PM 1/23/2003 -0800, Jane wrote:
Reagrding Diana Chapman's and John Lonsdale's observations of seed
germinating a year later than other seeds in the pot: I have often seen
this, and so when I pot up my seedling bulbs to put in the bulb frame, I
dump the rest of the seedpot soil on top of them in case there is any
viable seed left over,
Jane McGary
Marguerite - Gardening with bulbs and perennials at 3700 feet in the
mountains of southern California. Extreme temperatures in our
Mediterranean climate from 0 to 110 degrees F. Average temperatures 15 to
90 degrees F. A few days of snow in winter and a few days of extreme heat
in Aug-Sept. Drought conditions seem to be changing to an 'El Nino'
year. (I think that's long-hand for USDA zone 7B.)