Early Sunday update with Saturday's news.
There was still no CapJunky sprout this morning, so I decided to start digging around for it. It took a lot of careful scraping, but after finally breaking apart the peat, this is what I found at 9am:
I think I packed the peat too tightly when I squeezed the water out when I first soaked it, and the sprout was having trouble getting through. I covered it up gently with more peat, watered it, and three hours later it was at the surface:
And four hours after that, it was above ground:
So that meant planting time. The tap root was already working its way out of the bottom:
And into a cup of FFOF it went for a couple of hours of late afternoon sun:
The cots look pretty tight (no membrane though) so I hope it opens up a bit by morning. We'll see!
In Candida seed-making news, it was the end of the line for the STS plant with the pollen sacs, but not before I did my best to get every last bit of pollen from it.
To that end, I cut off each branch, took off the big fans, stuck it in a tall glass vase, and - with my other hand covering much of the top to keep the pollen cloud contained - knocked it against the sides, spun it, and then reached in and smooshed the buds around to get all I could off each branch.
When I was all done, this is what I had:
I tipped that into a strainer over a pot:
and collected this:
Then I went back to the vase to get the rest:
And this is what I ended up with in total today:
I kept that separate from the previous pollen but both containers are in with the dehuey. Sunday night I'll find suitable vials,
dry out the silica balls per Stunger, and put some in the fridge and some in the freezer just to cover all bases.
That's it for me (so far)! I hope your weekend is going swimmingly.
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Thanks Lerugged, and you'd know!
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Might be a side effect of Zetrisil.
CL
) Candida, which blew over! The wind also flipped open the lid on the hot tub so I had to tie it down. 
Thanks sb!
