Posted by mark on December 7, 2010, 10:31 am
I have a Sankey heated propagator. Can anyone recommend seeds or anything I
could put in it now to get some benefit out of it?
mark
Posted by Derek on December 7, 2010, 10:50 am
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:31:28 -0000, "mark"
>I have a Sankey heated propagator. Can anyone recommend seeds or anything I
>could put in it now to get some benefit out of it?
Onions?
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Posted by <vicky on December 7, 2010, 5:22 pm
> The sort of things I do is onions, as said, tomatoes, peppers, french&
> runner beans. You can gain three weeks or so. But you have to have it
> planned so that stuff can go to the greenhouse (with heating?) after
> the propagator.
When I did tomatoes early last year they were terrible. Suggestion was that
they didn't get enough light rather than warmth.
Posted by <vicky on December 8, 2010, 5:14 am
>> When I did tomatoes early last year they were terrible. ?Suggestion was that
>> they didn't get enough light rather than warmth.
>
> Any plant that has insufficient light is usually tall &lanky. So it's
> easy to tell. Normal problem is failing to harden off plants grown in
> lots of heat.
My early tomatoes (and aubergines) just didn't thrive. They grew very weedy
and never got going, most died off by the time they got to repottable size.
The implication to me would be dodgy seed (but later sewings of the same
seed produced better results) or dodgy soil (what I put it down to, but when
I said that at the time everyone threw their arms in the air, etc :-)
Posted by Pete on December 8, 2010, 7:08 am
>>> When I did tomatoes early last year they were terrible. ?Suggestion was
>>> that
>>> they didn't get enough light rather than warmth.
>>
>> Any plant that has insufficient light is usually tall &lanky. So it's
>> easy to tell. Normal problem is failing to harden off plants grown in
>> lots of heat.
> My early tomatoes (and aubergines) just didn't thrive. They grew very
> weedy
> and never got going, most died off by the time they got to repottable
> size.
> The implication to me would be dodgy seed (but later sewings of the same
> seed produced better results) or dodgy soil (what I put it down to, but
> when
> I said that at the time everyone threw their arms in the air, etc :-)
Propogating Toms in December must be a not starter except for the pro's who
create their own little glasshouse world.
The plants need continuous good growing conditions - An April start would be
optimum in my non-pro, non- heated glass house.
Regards
Pete(The uncouth)
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>could put in it now to get some benefit out of it?