[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Congrats on the germinations--yeah, watching the seedlings grow and mature is definitely cool. What method did you use to germinate the liniflora?...just curious.
I did a warm water soak, then a quick 1:10 bleach:water wash, then let them sit in clear water again. The funny thing is that all of the purple pigment washed out of the seeds during the first soak, not during the bleaching!
After that, the seeds went in to 2 different pots. The mixes are something like 1:1:1 peat:sand
umice, I think the smaller pot has more sand/pumice. I pot a thin layer of peat on top, just to get an germination surface that isn't too rocky (more for my benefit than the plant's; it's darn hard to spread these things out evenly!)
I start days off when I wake up and I turn the growlight on (a single growlight, nothing fancy.) When I get home from school, they go outside (covered for humidity) in to the blasting sun, or stay inside under the light if it's rainy. The smaller pot that is inside of the carrying flat with the Sarra seeds and Drosera gemmae are on a heating pad whenever inside.
Germination rates have been pretty good! I just found another straggeler germinate a few days ago, though. Hoping that I can get these guys to flower and thrive!
BTW, chloroplast, you were asking about germinating devil's claws a while back, weren't you? Did they turn out?!
--Edit: Well, what do you know! I just read where you mentioned them in another topic... I hope they germinate SOON!