Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Gabriela]

2016 seedling photos, all at an advanced true leaf stage now, from my original posting at the NARGS forum:
https://www.nargs.org/comment/27343#comment-27343
https://www.nargs.org/comment/27344#comment-27344

Nice grown up seedlings. I try not to start that early without a greenhouse but here are a few with the true leaves. I hope for an early spring!

[Gabriela]

I have attached a picture of seedling which I got as seed of Pulsatilla bungeana from SRGS this year.
Does it look right?

I grew other Pulsatilla spp. from seeds and the first leaves can be sometimes a bit out of character, but I don't know if that much.
Here's a link with it in wild habitat - Virtual Guide to Flora of Mongolia
http://greif.uni-greifswald.de/floragreif/?flora_search=Image&record_id=12666

[Karaba]

Linnaea borealis
Seeds from Gabriela 
As i was late, I put the seeds in a zip bag with wet kitchen towel so that I can put them in the fridge during 2-3 months. As always, I keep the seeds at least 15 days before putting them in the fridge (to wake them up or if some of them want to germinate) and 6 of them germinated very quickly. Here's 3 of them, the fourth one has been chewed by a slug (so the blue pellets)

[Gabriela]

Great discoveries are done usually by chance Yvain It may be a warm germinator after all (tell the slugs to stay away, this is Russian Linnaea - there can be repercussions if they don't stop attacking the seedlings...  
I didn’t have enough seeds left to try both ways so my pot is outside, I’ll bring it in the house today. We need more seeds to test again!!!

[Garden Prince]

Genus/Species: Jeffersonia dubia
Seed Source: Yuzawa Engei, Japan
Seeds Sown: August 2015
Germination: First seeds germinated in late February and since then more seeds have germinated.

[Michael J Campbell]

Good germination of Trillium rivale this year.

[Maggi Young]

No shortage of seed to sow in the first place, eh. Michael? !

[meanie]

Puya berteroniana germinated a while back but I've just got around to splitting them up and potting into their own pots. One of the five seedlings has already divided and produced an offset...............

[Chris Johnson]

That's some beast ... no wonder you haven't done the crossword 

[meanie]

That's some beast ... no wonder you haven't done the crossword 

Give it a few years and it will be a beast!
I've just received seed for Puya alpestris as well.

[ashley]

P. berteroniana isn't quite as vicious as P. alpestris, but still worth keeping it well back from paths and ideally fenced off from children/pets/sheep.
Wonderful flowers though, well worth the wait (and the almost inevitable bloodshed) 

[meanie]

P. berteroniana isn't quite as vicious as P. alpestris, but still worth keeping it well back from paths and ideally fenced off from children/pets/sheep.
Wonderful flowers though, well worth the wait (and the almost inevitable bloodshed) 

All of my Puya have had me already. I'm sure that they'll continue to do so as well especially as I pot them up (which is a really dangerous pastime) 

[Gabriela]

All of my Puya have had me already. I'm sure that they'll continue to do so as well especially as I pot them up (which is a really dangerous pastime) 

Very nice seedlings; since they all look the same when very young I will show my Puya coerulea from another year with a warning - Puya beware!
Do not to make my mistake to prick out all Puya seedlings (unless you really have just a few). They were very cute, wild collected so I couldn’t stop…I cannot say how many pots I had, it would seem insane. The toughest plants ever….

[Gabriela]

Few seedlings germinated outside and brought indoors last Friday before the new cold outburst.
The two Stylophorum sp. can be distinguished even at this early stage. There is one seedling of S. lasiocarpum with three cotyledons 




Allium cupuliferum

[Tristan_He]

Erythronium revolutum, from own seed.



Cremanthodium rhodocephalum, from SRGC seedex this year. The cat (which you can see a bit of in the photo) decided to see what I was doing when I was inspecting seed pots earlier in the year and knocked the pot over, so I had to scrape up the contents. It doesn't seem to have affected germination too badly.



Viola calcarata, again from the seedex. Just potted on which is why some are a bit lopsided.



Oxytropis campestris ssp. rishirensis.



Primula secundiflora from the Meconopsis group exchange.