May 13th, 2006
Up side down
Well, you’re supposed to soak the morning glory seeds in water before you plant them. Then they sprout. Then you plant them in the soil. Then they grow.
Unless.
Yep.
I planted them with their future roots pointing up.
Yep.
But I was right about one thing. Life has a zest for itself. Some of the sprouts have curled themselves over back into the soil so the correct side can come up as a little leafy sprout.
I over-planted each of the 22 pots I put seeds into that night, so I’m still hopeful that I won’t have to start all over again.
I said I’d probably have to get in the way of the seeds if I wanted to stop them. Could I have done a better job of that if I tried? Too funny.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Please tell me that you CANNOT plant a seed upside down.Doh.
I nicked mine with a knife then soaked them in water for,oh, about several hours. If you planted them too thick in your pots, you can thin them out when they get to be a few inches tall, I don’t know if the ones you removed will be able to be replanted, but at least you won’t have to start ALL over from scratch.
p.s. you are watching them WAAAYYY too closely ;)
May 16th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
I let mine soak for about 24 hours then I had to pour off the water and just put damp paper towels over them so they would neither dry out nor drown. (I thought I’d have time - make time - to plant them sooner, but didn’t.) So mine weren’t merely seeds when I planted them. Some had sprouts well over a quarter inch long. And I planted them sprout-up.
In any case, thank you for the encouragement. I will try to BACK OFF and let them do their thing.
May 17th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Can you drown them? I left my sweet peas soak for oh, about several days. Are they dead? I planted a few today and was going to get around to the rest this weekend sometime. I am too lax with it. I should start over from scratch. Now if I start over, they’ll ALL come up and kill eachother. WOW yours had already sprouted over 1/4 inch long? Mine hadn’t even sprouted, perhaps I knicked them too violently. Some people make gardening look so effortless.
May 17th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
You’re asking ME? I know nothing, I just looked online for what to do and when I did a search for which way to plant the sprouted seeds, I found nothing.
Don’t start over, just plant ‘em sprout down - or how about sideways, just in case your’s are different!?
Almost every pot has at least one growing in it, and I definitely did it wrong. (I won’t need to thin them, at least.)
I started nicking mine but got bored with it after one or two so I quit. And yes - a lot of them were over a 1/4 inch.
May 19th, 2006 at 8:32 am
what sprouts? There are no sprouts.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Just stick ‘em in the dirt and see what happens.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Loser! I hope they grow.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Their insertion angle needs to be no greater than 20 degrees variance from a vertical cotyledon, and only after minimal external radicle development (via aqueous initiation of 2-3 days). Radicle pointing down, obviously.
Chill, chickies. Do you think farmers are strolling along after their tractors righting errant seeds?
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:18 pm
HEY!
I don’t see a lot of “farmers” nicking and soaking their morning glory seeds after which time they pop nearly half inch sprouts and then machine planting them a half inch under ground.
So there.