thanks. sorry i didn't want to put you on the spot publicly ----- Original Message ----- From: "AW" <awilson@avonia.com> To: "'Robin Carrier'" <robin@no1bird.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:32 PM Subject: RE: [pbs] What's germinating - January 25 >I am in zone 10 but don't put much store by those zones! They are effective > over most of the country where climatic gradations are low. Here in > southern > California you can go through three zones in a matter of 10 miles. Down > the > hill, a mile away it is one if not two zones lower. Higher up the hill, a > few hundred yards away it may be Zone 11. > > The germination times depend not just on Zone but on provenance of the > seed. > > > Robin, I'd prefer to hold these discussions at the PBS site. > > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Carrier [mailto:robin@no1bird.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:44 PM > To: awilson@avonia.com > Subject: Re: [pbs] What's germinating - January 25 > > it would be great to know what zone you live in > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "AW" <awilson@avonia.com> > To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:27 PM > Subject: [pbs] What's germinating - January 25 > > >> Finally, Romulea seedlings! R. hirsuta is the first species to >> germinate - >> that's over 4 months. I await the others. Watsonia species and >> Ornithogalum >> (only 1 species, from Namibia) germinated after a month, Sparaxis after >> 2, >> Gladiolus and Lachenalias after 3. Nearly all were sown outdoors but >> protected from rain in the latter part of September. All were kept moist >> from below with rain water. >> >> A late December sowing of 9 Pelargonium species (mostly geophytic) >> germinated in three weeks. They received otherwise identical treatment. >> >> Lesson - it's very difficult to predict germination times. >> >> Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > >