Germination
11 March 2023 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeOne of the coriander seeds I planted back on the 13th of February has finally put out a pale root, which means that everything has now shown at least some sign of germination. Except for the exceedingly elderly mustard and cress seeds I have on wet paper on the windowsill, where only a single mustard seed has done anything at all (that one has now opened its leaves, whereas the other seeds are just lying there damply and will presumably eventually go mouldy). I wasn't expecting much from those as the germination rate was very poor the last time I tried; I just emptied out the last of the seed to use up the packets in the hope that I might get at least some sprouts. In the case of the cress that was apparently too much to ask!
Encouraged by this, I have put out a pot with a quarter of last year's sheet of towel-tomatoes in it; everyone else seems to have been starting their tomatoes indoors for a month or so, but I'm afraid mine just have to be hardy as I haven't got light or space for them inside... I see that I actually planted some tomato seed on the 2nd of February last year, which eventually came up halfway through April after the soil was disturbed -- the tomatoes planted on March 21st came up a week earlier!
I have taken the top off the mini-greenhouse in order to harden the pak choi and dill off a bit, and must remember to put it back on before tonight. It is easy to weed the pak choi, as the seedlings are purple in colour and very large and chunky -- distinguishing dill seedlings from poppy seedlings is rather more of a challenge :-D
The chilli seeds are, I think, developing very slowly, although they have yet to show any signs of activity beyond a single root or two a month after they were originally sown. Meanwhile all the other seedlings in the pot are busy romping away; definitely a calendula, some embryonic corn-marigolds and corn-chamomile, and what I think are probably chickweed seedlings rather than the poppies I'd initally assumed ;-p I shall probably have to harden my heart and pull them all up, but it's interesting to note that this 'indoors' calendula is far more developed than the seedling calendulas that have been outdoors and germinated earlier...
When uploading "Chick nor Child" to AO3 I discovered that the mis-wrangled 'tag' for 'Comte Philibert de Chagny' (which someone had helpfully redirected to point to Philippe, presumably on the assumption that 'Philibert' was a typo...?) has now been fixed -- I reported this on January 23rd and when I last checked the tag was still linked to the wrong character, but at some point recently it has been dealt with.
(And, somewhat to my surprise, the wrangling team accepted my (documented) statement that 'Philibert' was in fact the canonical spelling, so all the occurrences of Comte Philbert de Chagny -- presumably a typo originating withanotherdiana back in 2014 and prompted by the autocomplete for every entry since -- have now been mapped to "Philibert". Which should at least help to prevent the appearance of any further Philberts by default!)
Encouraged by this, I have put out a pot with a quarter of last year's sheet of towel-tomatoes in it; everyone else seems to have been starting their tomatoes indoors for a month or so, but I'm afraid mine just have to be hardy as I haven't got light or space for them inside... I see that I actually planted some tomato seed on the 2nd of February last year, which eventually came up halfway through April after the soil was disturbed -- the tomatoes planted on March 21st came up a week earlier!
I have taken the top off the mini-greenhouse in order to harden the pak choi and dill off a bit, and must remember to put it back on before tonight. It is easy to weed the pak choi, as the seedlings are purple in colour and very large and chunky -- distinguishing dill seedlings from poppy seedlings is rather more of a challenge :-D
The chilli seeds are, I think, developing very slowly, although they have yet to show any signs of activity beyond a single root or two a month after they were originally sown. Meanwhile all the other seedlings in the pot are busy romping away; definitely a calendula, some embryonic corn-marigolds and corn-chamomile, and what I think are probably chickweed seedlings rather than the poppies I'd initally assumed ;-p I shall probably have to harden my heart and pull them all up, but it's interesting to note that this 'indoors' calendula is far more developed than the seedling calendulas that have been outdoors and germinated earlier...
When uploading "Chick nor Child" to AO3 I discovered that the mis-wrangled 'tag' for 'Comte Philibert de Chagny' (which someone had helpfully redirected to point to Philippe, presumably on the assumption that 'Philibert' was a typo...?) has now been fixed -- I reported this on January 23rd and when I last checked the tag was still linked to the wrong character, but at some point recently it has been dealt with.
(And, somewhat to my surprise, the wrangling team accepted my (documented) statement that 'Philibert' was in fact the canonical spelling, so all the occurrences of Comte Philbert de Chagny -- presumably a typo originating with
anotherdiana back in 2014 and prompted by the autocomplete for every entry since -- have now been mapped to "Philibert". Which should at least help to prevent the appearance of any further Philberts by default!)