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EmmaCampanula

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need your advice
« on: March 02, 2011, 03:53:38 PM »
First post - first questions...
Today I got some seeds of Anemonella, Isopyrum an Soldanella and am not sure about what to do with them. I guess some of them need a cold treatment to germinate; the temperatures at night are about 0 to -5 ° at the moment, but during the day they rise up to about 8 ° or more.

Have you any advice for me what to do best?

(So sorry for my bad english... ) 8)
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Kristl Walek

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Re: need your advice
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 04:04:43 PM »
My comment on the Anemonella (for sure) and Isopyrum (probably) is that these two should be sown from fresh (or kept moist packed) seed. Of course you should try anyway, even if the seed is perhaps dead by now, if you got it from last years' harvest; you might just get lucky. I would sow them both right away and place them in cold conditions.

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Maggi Young

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Re: need your advice
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 04:18:56 PM »
Welcome Emma  8)

I would sow the seed now in a substrate with some good leaf mould added and leave in a cool, shaded spot.

leaf mould is the wonderful dark, friable material you get from well-rotted leaves - I wasn't sure if this was a term you would understand in English  :-\
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EmmaCampanula

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Re: need your advice
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 08:49:36 PM »
Thank you Kristl and Maggi for your comments. None of the seeds were moist-packed, that was what I hoped too! So I will try my luck an sow them tomorrow - outside in a shaded spot. I first thougt, that putting them in the fridge in some moist perlitte would be fine for some weeks... because of the constant cool conditions.

Yes Maggi I know what leaf mould is, I was in the wood today collecting some.  :D

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