Who says you need a germinating medium?

[Kamipalms]

It's probably been a good couple of weeks since I've checked my seeds for germination

Heres what I found today...

It appears that as long as there is moisture , germinating seeds realy don't care!

J.

[palmazon]

Interesting way you've divided your community bucket; I tried a similar method on an already divided 'color flat' with 4 species of Coccothrinax - one day, it was knocked over and everything got scrambled. No big deal - by the time I'm able to identifiy what's what, they may be worth something

[Logolight]

Am I looking at the date right, did you sow those seeds last October?

[Zac in NC]

no I think he sowed them on the 10th day of a month. I think the US is the odd one out yet again with our Month Day Year, rather than the day month year. Amazing stuff Jason.

Zac

[Kamipalms]

Yes , your right Zac. Never figured out why you guys go month/day/year ?

Logolight, they were sown 10/5/06 - thats day/month/year and the ones on the bottom left were sown on the 30/6/06 just for  a growth idea.

Danny,

I just divided everything with plant tags- I hadn't considered what would happen if it was knocked over...EeeeK!

[Zac in NC]

Jason- Don't know why we do it that way either. The only yhting I can think of is rebellion against the Crown? Perhaps its an old thing they did to rub the Brits nose in the fact we won the Revolutionary War? Who knows.

Zac

[bgl]

I guess we're getting off the topic here, but I believe the explanation is much simpler. In normal talk, a date (here in the USA) is almost always referred to as (for instance) September 10th, 2006, so modifying it to all numbers, it becomes 9-10-06. As far as I know, the USA is the only country that concistently uses this system. (In Sweden, for instance, you would say 10th September 2006 - in Swedish of course..., which becomes 10-9-06).

Incidentally, the official international way is year-month-day, i.e. 2006-09-10, which doesn't really lend itself to "normal speech", but it's great when you add date information in a database, because the computer will automatically sort on year, then month and finally the day.

[MattyB]

Jason, so you just lay the seed on top and do not cover up with more medium?  Do you sterilize the medium via microwave or something?

[Matt in SD]

I had some Livistonas chinensis seeds that my son and I had collected and put in a ziplock bag.  The sealed bag (with nothing but the seeds, maybe 15 of them) got lost in my sons room for a couple months.  When cleaning out his room we found it and several seeds had sprouted.  So I guess in some cases, no medium, and no moisture other than the thin fruit on the seed.

Matt

[amazon exotics]

Thats the way Mother nature does it. She doesn't put anything in baggies. Let the seeds fall as they may, they'll do the rest theirselves.

[Zac in NC]

(bgl @ Sep. 11 2006,00:39)

QUOTE

I guess we're getting off the topic here, but I believe the explanation is much simpler. In normal talk, a date (here in the USA) is almost always referred to as (for instance) September 10th, 2006, so modifying it to all numbers, it becomes 9-10-06. As far as I know, the USA is the only country that concistently uses this system. (In Sweden, for instance, you would say 10th September 2006 - in Swedish of course..., which becomes 10-9-06).

Incidentally, the official international way is year-month-day, i.e. 2006-09-10, which doesn't really lend itself to "normal speech", but it's great when you add date information in a database, because the computer will automatically sort on year, then month and finally the day.

Thanks Bo. I guess I was just over-thinking about it. Oh well, no harm meant towards the Crown and to any British people out there in cyperspace.

Zac

[Kamipalms]

(MattyB @ Sep. 12 2006,01:25)

QUOTE

Jason, so you just lay the seed on top and do not cover up with more medium?  Do you sterilize the medium via microwave or something?

Hey Matty,

I usually only just cover the seeds with the medium but with the container their in , a lot of condensation falls from the inside of the lid and washes it away.... they don't seem too bothered by it.

I sterilize EVERYTHING. The medium is Coco peat and I buy the compressed blocks and expand with boiling water. The blocks are suppose to be sterile but just to be sure....

J.

[Trópico]

I am curious as to what species ar you germinating in there Jason?

[Kamipalms]

Aww..C'mon Frank!

I'm sure you can guess.... theres only 100 odd species to choose from .....

Seriously, I've scrubbed out the tags for the reason their a "new" species and I don't wish to make claim to having anything untill it can be properly identified.

- all in good time.

Heres a pic of the same taken on the 18/8/06 ( thats day/month/year for the northeners)

Jason.

[Trópico]

-What's that one in there?

-That's a Chamaedorea "velocirraptor"