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T & M Seeds Half Price!
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Posted by CrazyLady Norfolk (My Page) on Sun, May 8, 05 at 14:25
| Well, only a few - apparently it's an 'end of season' sale - but some things are now only 50p a packet! Great for people like me who begrudge paying today's inflated prices. |
Here is a link that might be useful: T&M Half Price Seeds
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RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| Sounds about right for seeds that are 50% likely to germinate and 50% likely to be the wrong species. LOL! |
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| I dearly love a bargain, but some of the seeds that I bought half price from Wy****e (from various seed-suppliers) have mysteriously not germinated, even cast-iron standards like sweetpeas. Makes me wonder how the seeds have been stored etc. Though I've also had appalling germination from full-price seeds, which is twice as annoying! |
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| shrubs_n_bulbs I would dearly like to know how you are managing 50% germination with their seed. As you know I know how to germinate Meconopsis and with T and M seed I germinated just 4!!! |
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| Geoff, at least you got some :( I did recently sow some self-collected Meconopsis seed for summer 2002. Admittedly, I sowed the whole lot to get rid of it, probably several hundred seeds, but a good many came up. Meconopsis is reputed to be a short-lived, but it will clearly survive several years if stored properly. 
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RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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You could have sent me some! I was too lazy or was away when the pods opened and did not have any last year.
Is that perlite or is it grit in your compost? I think I have recommended using grit cause it keeps the roots cooler. Try to sow in the autumn if you can. Its easier to keep the night time temperatures down then.
Look good seedlings, seem to be developing first leaves. I leave a link for a place that does GOOD Meconopsis seed, cause it is their own collected.
They have some nice varieties like the white betonicifolia, regia and napaulensis. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Plant World Seeds
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| You usually have buckets of those seeds, Geoff! That's vermiculite, but I'm having no trouble keeping night temperatures down at the moment :) Anyway, just leftover seed so I'm not too bothered if they live or die. M. betonicifolia (probably crossed with the nearby hybrids) in one half and M. grandis (possibly not crossed) on the other side. Since we are recommending seed places, here's one with an interesting selection of seed collected at an arboretum. They are in Canada, but will ship anywhere in the world (except USA) at very reasonable rates. The date of harvest is shown for each seed. |
Here is a link that might be useful: van Dusen
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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ah well this year is unusually cool remember. Other years i have lost all my meconopsis seedlings due to too high a night time temps....the professionals lose them by the tens of thousand.
I did feel that grit was better than either perlite or vermiculate. I felt it was because it kept the roots cooler. They do seem to like a cool root run.
I will book mark that site. late summer is the time when I buy in Meconopsis seed. |
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| I got three seedlings from my T&M Meconopsis Cambrica this year!!!!! I didn't, however, have any grit/vermicualite to nad when I sowed them, so was very surprised when a minth after sowing some little green started to form on the compost :-) Although mould and algae were already taking a very strong hold at that point :-( I've got them growing on in the shed (north facing window), so hope they will be strong enough to put out soon. One has gone a bit leggy, but has good roots. I've been trying for three years to grow these now, so hope this is my lucky one..... |
RE: T & M Seeds Half Price!
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| The only way I have been able to get M. cambrica to germinate well is to just leave the pot outside over winter. I'm sure there is some combination of warm and cold stratification that will do it for me, but no luck so far. The T&M instructions are completely useless for this species. I've been told by an experienced grower that three months warm followed by three months cold will do it, but its easier just to leave them outside to get on with it. Once they start, these are much tougher than other Meconopsis and I don't think you'll lose them. They will also self-seed all over your garden unless you are 100% efficient with your deadheading. If your T&M seeds don't work out for you, email me and I'll get you some more. |
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