Today is Wednesday, January 30th, 2013. On Sunday night, I got the wild idea (after Mark inspired me with his research and R&D, of course) to germinate a bunch of seeds in wet paper towels in ziploc bags. With the exception of cucumber seeds (which promise to germinate in 3 days), all of the seeds require seven or more days to germinate, so I didn't have any concern about making it to next weekend before I had to worry about the seeds and plant them.
WRONG! In one day, the cucumber seeds were taking off and had to be planted. No prob, had that covered. The rest could wait.... or maybe not..... I checked tonight, and all of the lettuce seeds (regardless of whether I had them in the cold by a window or on a heating pad) had germinated and were ready to be planted.
The Lettuce, Red Sails, promised to only germinate in 40 to 60 degrees fahrenheit.... Wrong again! I exposed them to 85 degrees and they exploded in three days.
Same with Collards.... supposed to germinate in 8-12 days in 65 degrees (85 is way too hot), but they shot open like rockets in 85 degrees in three days.
What does this tell me? I'm never germinating in peat pellets again! Everything will germinate in bags, and then get moved to some soil (or hydroponic system heh heh).
I'm very excited about this warm, humid environment, and what it does to seeds! How much time I've wasted waiting for freakin seeds to germinate!!! Never again!
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