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Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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Posted by wayne_county_man WV_6b (My Page) on Sun, Dec 11, 11 at 0:53
| Had no success getting the seeds to germinate. Any suugestions? |
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RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| How are you trying to grow them? I did average indoor seed starting techniques in late winter/early spring with these and had great success. FataMorgana |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| I did the traditional seed flat method under fluorescent lights - no luck. I tried outside in a pot - no luck. I am a pretty experienced seed starter. Just wondering if there are special methods for germinating the seeds (e.g. Refrigerator for a couple of weeks). I am beginning to speculate bad batch of seed. Sure is a shame because this was a large package of seed. :-( |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| I did nothing special. No pretreatment and started them in indoor seed flats under lights. They were even seeds I got at a seed swap and weren't anything fancy. I would try other seeds. FataMorgana |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| Yeah - that's what I was thinking. It was a large bag of seed from china. Maybe they roasted the seeds or something (for cooking). Oh well - Thanks for the response. |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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- Posted by t-bird Chicago 5/6 (My Page) on
Thu, Dec 15, 11 at 13:25
| I had a hard time with these as well. What I did was take a plasted food container from take out, with a lid and seeled it up. They do take a very long time to germinate, and the constant moisture is important. |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| If you keep having problems getting the seeds to sprout just maybe it will be cheaper to just buy a plant and place that in the ground. In my area it re-seeds itself and I have to put it up to keep it from taking over my herb bed. I have found for me in this area it does not do will in our spring-summer season but does best here in our fall season but once established it grows great. |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| chinese chives aka garlic chives are used in traditional chinese medicine as a yang tonic with an affinity for the lungs. if they won't sprout, throw em out and start over. even easier to get a start from a friend or garden center. |
RE: Chinese Chives not germinating! Help?
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| It was a large bag of seed from china ***
Well there's your answer right there. They have a reputation of reputable quality goods. Who knows WHAT they've been through?
Note: this is NOT a racist comment. Just one based on observation of Chinese goods in general over recent years. Luckily a pack of garlic chive seeds is easy to find and cheap. |
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