Hello!

How about on a piece of oasis ( that green foam used in flower arrangement )
?


Claude

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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| Ted Byers wrote:
| "K Barrett" wrote in message
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|
| Ted Byers wrote:
| Now that would be a fun thing to try... put a few herbs in s/h and see
| what happens... I wonder about the hard woody varieties vs the soft
| plants (like thyme vs basil for example) Come to think of it, I think
| most herbs get a better taste from hard rocky growing conditions... but
| that may be just another myth.
|
|
| There's one way to find out, but alas, I don't have suitable space. Oh
how
| I long for a greenhouse! :-(
| A much bigger kitchen with a much MUCH bigger window would be terrific
too!
|
| I think that in principle any plant could be grown in semihydro, but
expect
| that in practice there are a few that would either need special
treatment or
| simply would not take to it.
|
|
| I'll bet if you started growing seedlings standing in water then
| transferred them to s/h you'd get a better survival rate... in order to
| allow for morphologic root changes between the culture methods.
|
|
| I've not tried starting seedlings in standing water. Just how do you
get
| seeds germinated in standing water? What would you suggest doing to
secure
| the plants in their pots once you transfer them to semihydro?
|
| I was thinking of starting the seeds in a rehydrated peat plug, and then
the
| mightmare of separating the peat from the roots of the seedling without
| damaging the roots, and THEN getting them into semihydro and trying to
| figure out how to secure them in place.
|
| I wonder if I could make a gel, using R/O water with my usual
fertilizer,
| and something to make the gel set at room temperature, and get the seeds
| germinated on that. Then, the "slab" of gel that is populated with
newly
| emerged seedlings could be placed on the top of a pot with something
like
| PrimeAgra, so the seedlings' roots could grow down into the pot and
secure
| the plants within the pot. Hopefully the plants would be well
established
| in the pots before the gel has been completely dissolved as the plants
get
| extra water. What do you think?
|
| Cheers,
|
| Ted
|
| Nono, I meant seedlings like those in a 6pack.
|
| I college we tried germinating seed standing in water placed amongst the
| folds of a papertowel.... I never had success with that, but that's all
| I can come up with.
|
| K