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Post by daylilydude on Apr 2, 2019 5:09:13 GMT -5
How long do you wait after you planted your seeds before you determine it's a "no show" on seeds?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 2, 2019 5:43:33 GMT -5
Oh gosh, I guess it would depend on the seed. Last year, those darned ol' pelleted seeds were the last thing to germinate. I had given up on them and all of a sudden there they were. If it were a time frame, I dunno, let's say 2 weeks.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 2, 2019 7:15:59 GMT -5
I just replanted a few tomato seeds yesterday which is 7 days after the first planting. The others were up on Day 3. Red oxheart popped up in 3 days in one pot but not at all in another one so I think that something was wrong there. Another one that didn't germinate yet was Kiss The Sky ladymarmalade so I planted the rest of the seeds that you sent me. I am still hopeful. They are on the heat mat. Sun sugar didn't germinate either. They are my oldest seeds but not really that old at 3 years.
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Post by coppice on Apr 2, 2019 7:35:49 GMT -5
For say tomato, or peppers, 30 days max. For tree seeds, a full winters slumber. Or a year and a few months.
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Post by carolyn on Apr 2, 2019 8:16:09 GMT -5
usually on tomatoes 2 weeks max peppers I restart at two weeks just in case they don't come up. I need to be sure. I would rather have too many than none.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 2, 2019 9:10:29 GMT -5
Agreed, carolyn, but I give tomatoes 2 weeks and peppers 3 weeks. Having said that, in my experience, one of the best aids to germination is to sow replacement seeds. I can't tell you how often the original seeds came up within a few days of the replacements being sown. Logically, that argues for not sowing replacements. However, not sowing replacements seems to invoke Murphy's Law: if I don't sow replacements, I almost always find myself at the big box store at planting time, grumbling about the lousy variety selection but buying plants anyway.
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Post by paulf on Apr 2, 2019 9:10:31 GMT -5
Two weeks and I know something is wrong. Replant after ten days.
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Post by september on Apr 2, 2019 9:13:39 GMT -5
10-12 days on tomatoes, 2 weeks on peppers. Usually stragglers come up eventually, but I'm running out of growing season if I wait much longer. I don't re-use the empty cells for the same variety, so I know what's old and what's new. Often the old pops up about 2 days after I planted the new.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 2, 2019 10:21:58 GMT -5
Depends on the type, and the age of the seeds. With tomatoes around 10 days, and peppers and eggplants around 14, what I do is plant some of the similar, excess seedlings in the pot (making sure to re-label!) and sometimes the old seeds will eventually come up. Then I watch the old one closely - often they are weak, and unless I need that variety, to save some new seeds from, I don't keep the old one. Otherwise, I just snip the replacement. I don't usually re-plant, unless it was only one or two that I planted the first time.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 6, 2019 8:08:52 GMT -5
Another one that didn't germinate yet was Kiss The Sky ladymarmalade so I planted the rest of the seeds that you sent me. I am still hopeful. They are on the heat mat. Don't know if it was one of the original seeds popping up on day 17 or one of the re-planted ones popping up on day 4 but I have a Kiss the Sky sprout! The seed coat is stuck so I am spraying it with water and trying to be patient. The Red Oxheart were replanted and now they ALL seem to have sprouted overnight. 3 seeds are at day 17 and 3 new ones at day 4 in the same pot. Sun sugar has still not sprouted so I will buy a seedling at the local greenhouse.
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