Germination
19 February 2023 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeWell, that didn't take long -- I filled and sowed the trough, and squirrels/birds have almost immediately come down and started tossing the fresh earth out :-(
(Maybe I should try a mini-scarecrow consisting of a few sticks with streamers of cloth on; I had my socks hanging over there for about three days and had no trouble during that period...)
So far I have germination in the pak choi in the mini-greenhouse, I *did* have germination in the trough (there seem to be a few surviving sprouts round the edge...), and, somewhat embarrassingly, I appear to have germination in the chillies in the kitchen, which are now likely to get extremely aetiolated! I wasn't expecting them to make any move for at least a week, or maybe two.
I'm assuming these seedlings really are chillies, and not just some random fast-growing weed seed that happened to be in the soil I used -- there is at least one more deeply-buried seedling that I can see through the transparent sides of the pot which ddefinitely *isn't* a chilli, being far too big. Probably another calendula. But the current crop are all about the right size to be chilli seedlings, and all coming up the same...
(Maybe I should try a mini-scarecrow consisting of a few sticks with streamers of cloth on; I had my socks hanging over there for about three days and had no trouble during that period...)
So far I have germination in the pak choi in the mini-greenhouse, I *did* have germination in the trough (there seem to be a few surviving sprouts round the edge...), and, somewhat embarrassingly, I appear to have germination in the chillies in the kitchen, which are now likely to get extremely aetiolated! I wasn't expecting them to make any move for at least a week, or maybe two.
I'm assuming these seedlings really are chillies, and not just some random fast-growing weed seed that happened to be in the soil I used -- there is at least one more deeply-buried seedling that I can see through the transparent sides of the pot which ddefinitely *isn't* a chilli, being far too big. Probably another calendula. But the current crop are all about the right size to be chilli seedlings, and all coming up the same...