Oxygen and seed germination
michaelcmace@gmail.com (Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:55:19 PST)

Peter wrote:

What is this snow stuff? It sounds great. Can I order some online?

(Sorry, it's a very rainy day today so I can't garden and it's making me
loopy.)

Mike R. wrote:

batch not germinating, that I put the whole thing out in gentle rain
(temperature permitting) and ....Presto! ......... germination within a
few days.

I've seen something similar, and not just with reluctant seeds. Often I'll
get a flush of germination after a rainstorm, even if I've been watering the
seeds faithfully for weeks. The trouble is that a rainstorm changes a lot
of variables all at once: less sun, cooler temps with less of a swing from
night to day, higher humidity, and of course the water is different. I've
never known what was the actual germination trigger.

Mike
San Jose, CA

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