Hey canna friends how are your spring seedlings coming along? It won't be long until we plant them outside. Here in Sicily it's warming up with temps near 20 C, and skies are sunny. When I get home in a month I'll germinate seeds as quick as I can. My past experience is that if you get germinated seeds in the ground by May first they'll grow quickly. I've put germinated seeds directly in the ground and they developed well with thicker stalks and were tougher that seedlings started inside. My best example of early planting was about 15 years ago on March 5th. I made a mini greenhouse out of a clear gallon glass jug I cut the bottom out of and planted three germinated KC Brains KC 33 seeds and Ill be damned if a week later they were up. I harvested in late August and it buds were a nice up high that I liked.
Before I left for Sicily just for kicks I planted three seeds in the ground and put a plastic cloche on top. This time I did not pre -germinate the seeds, but we'll see if the soil gets warm enough in the sun to start them. Last year amazingly I had a dozen volunteer seeds sprout by my composter where I threw out some mouldy seeded buds and they were up by mid April so it may work. My experience is germinated seeds will grow in colder than normal temps because they fight to survive and the plants develop with tough, thick, stalks. Anyway it will be interesting to see how it works out. Arrividerci amicas.