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summer showers ivy geranium seeds: problems in germination..
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Posted by twep Italy (My Page) on Tue, Jan 29, 08 at 6:48
hello I started last month for the first time 2 types of ivy geranium seeds, bought from swallowtailgardenseeds.com:
SUMMER SHOWERS BURGUNDY IVY
SUMMER SHOWERS WHITE BLUSH
Seeded indoor in the same container and same conditions...: now after 4 weeks after sowing I obtained 50% germination of the burgundy type but only 2 plants of 12 of the white ones!!!
in your experience they have a different germination time and I only have to wait a bit more? or I made something wrong??.... or maybe the white seeds weren't good and I should complain with the web site??? what is your opinion? thanks!!!
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RE: summer showers ivy geranium seeds: problems in germination..
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| I am growing both Tornado Mixed colors and Summer Showers mixed colors this year. My Tornado have done well with 90% germination but my Summer Showers only did 50% and they were uneven in emergence. My seed was fresh and marked as to having 87% germination when tested. I have more seed and am planting this later today. Anyone else tried Summer Showers from seed? Blueflint |
RE: summer showers ivy geranium seeds: problems in germination..
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| I just germinated a packet of Burpee Summer Showers mix with a 100% success rate. I do all of my geranium germination in damp paper towels, stacked in a sealed container. I put one variety in each towel labeled with a permanent marker, and stack them all in a single container. When I check each day for sprouting I also rearrange the stack of towels. This year, out of approximately 150 seeds of various varieties I've got 121 now in soil, and only 12-16 seeds left in the container which have until Sunday to sprout. Try that and see if you get better results; just be sure not to use too much water. |
RE: summer showers ivy geranium seeds: problems in germination..
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| You must have had something right if a couple of them germinated. Pick those out of there and pot them up and then put the container with the remaining seeds in a plastic bag or cover them somehow and put them in a warm place like on top of the refrigerator, or on a cookie cooling rack on top of a heat vent and see if more don't come up. I've found that all geraniums seem to come up in flushes. |
RE: summer showers ivy geranium seeds: problems in germination..
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| I got the summer showers mix from swallowtail. I have about 10 or so healthy looking plants which is good since I ordered 10 seeds and got 13. I put them on the heat mat and they came up in less than a week. |
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