What's germinating - January 25
Robin Carrier (Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:12 PST)

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

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