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Monday update while I get to catching up on the 450+ notifications I got when I was off the computer for the last few days!
Mostly this will be about the 1990's Afghani reg seeds that smokesbetter dropped off at my house a while back, with a bit of other stuff at the end.
Here are the 10 seeds I have to work with:
Yesterday I split them into two batches of 5 and dropped them in bowls for a soak in 3% hydrogen peroxide:
I always place a paper towel on top to force them down so the whole seed is covered rather than just the bottom half:
I dried them and placed each set in a quart mason jar, one set with a ripening banana and one set by themselves:
After that both jars went into a drawer laid so that the seeds wouldn't touch the banana and possibly rot.
This morning the banana jar was pretty moist inside:
I aired it out for a few seconds (which released all the ethylene in the jar) but I'm worried about the moisture going forward. I've read that a ripening apple puts out even more ethylene, so I'm going to test-jar an apple for a day and see if I get the same type fogging on the inside. If not, I may switch to the apple once this banana needs replacing (when it start to rot).
After 5 days of ethylene exposure I will take the seeds and put them in the jar between damp paper towel (not my normal route but it will increase ethylene exposure during germination) and include either an apple or a banana in with them. The control seeds will just be on damp paper towel. The jars will be placed in a box on the heat mat at 80ºF and we'll see how it goes!
If that doesn't work, I'll try to locate where I stored my gibberellic powder (GA3) as that is supposed to help with germination at specific concentrations. We'll see!
In other news, back in September I cut open a peach and the pit had split open revealing the seed. I googled how to germinate it and it said put it in a baggie filled with damp soil and walk away for a while.
That was Sept 13th and I completely forgot about up the side of the house until I needed some paint this weekend. which is stored in tubs at the far end. This is what I discovered:
So I pulled it out:
And planted it in a 1/2 gallon pot, soaked it, covered the whole thing with a ziploc, and put it back where it was. The nights are getting more chilly with each passing day so I may bring it inside for a better chance at survival. I'll let you know in a few weeks if it starts looking like a real plant.
That's it from me, and I hope your weekend went well, your week is off to a great start, and your teams played more like the Dodgers and the Chiefs than like Michigan's football team.
for the check-in!
Mostly this will be about the 1990's Afghani reg seeds that smokesbetter dropped off at my house a while back, with a bit of other stuff at the end.
Here are the 10 seeds I have to work with:
Yesterday I split them into two batches of 5 and dropped them in bowls for a soak in 3% hydrogen peroxide:
I always place a paper towel on top to force them down so the whole seed is covered rather than just the bottom half:
I dried them and placed each set in a quart mason jar, one set with a ripening banana and one set by themselves:
After that both jars went into a drawer laid so that the seeds wouldn't touch the banana and possibly rot.
This morning the banana jar was pretty moist inside:
I aired it out for a few seconds (which released all the ethylene in the jar) but I'm worried about the moisture going forward. I've read that a ripening apple puts out even more ethylene, so I'm going to test-jar an apple for a day and see if I get the same type fogging on the inside. If not, I may switch to the apple once this banana needs replacing (when it start to rot).
After 5 days of ethylene exposure I will take the seeds and put them in the jar between damp paper towel (not my normal route but it will increase ethylene exposure during germination) and include either an apple or a banana in with them. The control seeds will just be on damp paper towel. The jars will be placed in a box on the heat mat at 80ºF and we'll see how it goes!
If that doesn't work, I'll try to locate where I stored my gibberellic powder (GA3) as that is supposed to help with germination at specific concentrations. We'll see!
In other news, back in September I cut open a peach and the pit had split open revealing the seed. I googled how to germinate it and it said put it in a baggie filled with damp soil and walk away for a while.
That was Sept 13th and I completely forgot about up the side of the house until I needed some paint this weekend. which is stored in tubs at the far end. This is what I discovered:
So I pulled it out:
And planted it in a 1/2 gallon pot, soaked it, covered the whole thing with a ziploc, and put it back where it was. The nights are getting more chilly with each passing day so I may bring it inside for a better chance at survival. I'll let you know in a few weeks if it starts looking like a real plant.
That's it from me, and I hope your weekend went well, your week is off to a great start, and your teams played more like the Dodgers and the Chiefs than like Michigan's football team.
for the check-in!
so let's talk... Dude if you get a dude... Because I have a female in heat... Sorry I'm sweating over here 
we'll be talking 
