Baggie over pot question

Joined : 26 Apr 2008 Posts : 119 Location : brisbane

I have been trying to germinate seed with mixed sucess, with my method i have the bag tight over the top so condensation drips down back onto the seeds. If that bad? Its probably whats been giving me problems

Subject: Re: Baggie over pot question Thu May 15, 2008 4:23 pm

Could be your problems........ or if the soil was too wet to start with especially if fungi is growing.

Get the zip lock bags and put the whole pot in them. You can get fairly large one now if needed. Just get the el-cheapo black and gold ones.
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Betty

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Joined : 26 Apr 2008 Posts : 119 Location : brisbane

no fungi just often no germination

Subject: Re: Baggie over pot question Thu May 15, 2008 4:38 pm

Seeds not viable or not enough heat ????............ where did you get your seeds from
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Joined : 26 Apr 2008 Posts : 119 Location : brisbane

i'm thinking seeds were old, there were from a euopean seed supplier, its just lithops and 1 mamm i had probs with, astro's went fine but they were grown with no bag, just had the pot in water all the time

Subject: Re: Baggie over pot question Thu May 15, 2008 4:44 pm

Sounds like the seeds were the problem then.

Mesa Gardens has a good reputation for seeds as does Kohres. I have my first lot from MG now and have found Kohres to be good.

I have given up on the Aussie guy could not get any lithops to germinate and cacti were terrible. That was a few years ago though
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Subject: Re: Baggie over pot question Thu May 15, 2008 5:03 pm

Alternately you can just buy them plastic containers used to store food with the re-sealable lid. Drill holes in the bottom half fill with you fav cacti mix and sprinkle seeds then seal the lid. Now every day or two just carefully open the lid and dry the top. This stops the condensation falling onto the seed and thus promoting rot and also allows some air flow which will reduce bacteria building up.

I have sed this method may many times and it works.

Joined : 02 May 2008 Posts : 88 Location : Bendigo Victoria

Hi Betty, good to see your pics of Bruce's garden again. the plants you kindly gave us are going well in our poly house ..also had a visit from our friend in Mildura where we got our trailer load of plants from. he was pretty impressed with our work. took almost a month to pot them all up.Lois and Rod

Subject: Re: Baggie over pot question Thu May 15, 2008 11:22 pm

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