Monday, March 15, 2010

Transplanted lupine Sunrise and Sweet Woodruff today. Hopefully the lupines will survive since they dislike being transplanted. They seem to grow on long taproots. Next time, it would probably be better to plant each lupine in its own peat pot instead of together in flats. Also watered Aquilegia in egg crate which had dried out. No signs of life there yet, but supposedly it takes 30 days to germinate. Running out of space on my growing shelf that C set up for me. Already went through two bags of Miracle-Gro seed starting mix and need to get more for transplanting into 2" pots. Gardener's Germination mix has a better texture and less debris; there seems to be some shiny silver mineral flecks in the soil too. A faint odor of something like ammonia can be detected when seedling trays are placed inside a plastic bag for humidity. There doesn't seem to be a difference in germination rate though. It would be useful to do a side-by-side, A/B test with the two formulas.

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