{"id":4900,"date":"2019-01-21T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2019-01-21T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:30:33","slug":"seedling-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/seedling-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Seedling update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first worry when planting the seeds of the Australian plants was that none of them would grow\u2026that is no longer a worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forgive the strange lighting on the below photos, but I forgot to take them when the sun was up, so this is just the LED lights, and it casts a blue-pink tint on everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cIncubator\u201d\u2013Lights in the Bedroom Window with Cups Full of Seeds\/Seedlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The seedling setup is shown above. The cups are sitting on a heat mat and some are covered to up the humidity, while others are not. The ones that are not have shown signs of mold, so I\u2019ve dried them out a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hakea Seedlings\u2013About a Dozen of Them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Almost all of the Hakea drupacea seeds came up, and they appear to be robust, hardy seedlings. The first true leaves are showing. After they get two, I\u2019ll attempt to pot them on and move them to the greenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hardenbergia Seedlings\u2013At Least 20 of Them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hardenbergia violacea seeds came up quickly. There are about twenty seedlings with true leaves already. I\u2019ll transplant these to individual pots in early February and move them to the greenhouse\u2013hopefully they will adjust and grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acacia Seedling\u2013More \u201cPurpurea\u201d Than Usual Thanks to L.E.D. Lighting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Only one of the Acacia baileyana \u201cPurpurea\u201d came up so far. And a Hardenbergia seedling came up in there, too, somehow. I\u2019m hoping for more Acacias\u2013the color is already great and I can only imagine what they look like when they are trees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anigozanthos Seedlings\u2013Dozens of Them!!
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The Anigozathos manglesii seedlings came up looking like hair\u2013I wasn\u2019t sure the soil didn\u2019t have some nasty mold tentacles or something! But it turns out to be a BUNCH of grass-like seedlings. These have a long way to go to reach their full glory\u2013adults have flowering stems five feet tall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No photos\u2013but I was in the greenhouse this weekend and saw that some Cyclamen coum seeds that I planted over a year ago finally came up! There are two cute little cyclamen leaves in the tiny seedling pot! I\u2019ll get photos next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stumbled on an almanac that had the planting dates for food crops in Seattle. Surprisingly (or maybe not that surprisingly), all the dates were about a month earlier than I always believed. So, this weekend, I decided to get an early start on my peas. I planted most of them in pots today and then also planted some out in the garden. The pots are in the greenhouse and should give me some early transplants. It will be interesting to see if the direct-seeded ones try to come up soon, or maybe wait until February when it warms up a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peas are Spring Blush Tendril Peas from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring Blush Tendril Peas\u2013Photo (and Seeds) from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds\/rareseeds.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This cultivar did really well for me last year\u2013well, really well for our dog, Mona. She absolutely loves fresh peas and I picked a few every day as I came in from work and gave them to the dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first worry when planting the seeds of the Australian plants was that none of them would grow\u2026that is no longer a worry. Forgive the strange lighting on the below photos, but I forgot to take them when the sun was up, so this is just the LED lights, and it casts a blue-pink tint … Continue reading Seedling update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}