CP Water Germination Experiment: Potting Up
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:18 am
This February, I have been germinating a large number of seeds in Water Filled Test Tubes.
I'm using warmer than usual temperatures (80 - 85 F) and results have been superior.
Transferring newly sprouted seedlings to pots entailed.....
1A) dumping out the test tube onto the surface of the medium, or...
2A) dumping the test tube into a Petri Dish and using an eye dropper to schlurp up the seedlings and deposit them where desired in their new pot, and then...
1B/2B Bagging or doming or putting the new pots into a terrarium to minimize environmental change shock, going from water medium to peatmoss/perlite medium.
1C/2C Removing bag, dome, or terrarium after a month.
Today, I tried a different technique to pot up the plantlets out of the test tubes and into regular media-filled pots.
I filled a non-draining 6 inch pot with a 4:1 Peatmoss:Perlite mix.
The mix was almost saturated with ( Distilled ) water.
I added a little more water until there was about 1/8 inch standing water on top of the pot.
I slowly dribbled the test tube over the pot in a spiral motion, dumping out the plantlets, hundreds of tiny Drosera burmannii "Green" babies.
After they were all in, I very gently shook the pot to distribute the seedlings evenly.
I put the pot under lights.
The seedlings are in a shallow puddle and as the water evaporates, they'll slowly be exposed to the surface world and dry air, no sudden shocks.
I'm hoping for a massive colony of Burmannii "Green"s in a community pot.
I don't know if this will work better, but if it does, it's much less work.
And if it doesn't work, oh well, that's why they call it an experiment.
I'm using warmer than usual temperatures (80 - 85 F) and results have been superior.
Transferring newly sprouted seedlings to pots entailed.....
1A) dumping out the test tube onto the surface of the medium, or...
2A) dumping the test tube into a Petri Dish and using an eye dropper to schlurp up the seedlings and deposit them where desired in their new pot, and then...
1B/2B Bagging or doming or putting the new pots into a terrarium to minimize environmental change shock, going from water medium to peatmoss/perlite medium.
1C/2C Removing bag, dome, or terrarium after a month.
Today, I tried a different technique to pot up the plantlets out of the test tubes and into regular media-filled pots.
I filled a non-draining 6 inch pot with a 4:1 Peatmoss:Perlite mix.
The mix was almost saturated with ( Distilled ) water.
I added a little more water until there was about 1/8 inch standing water on top of the pot.
I slowly dribbled the test tube over the pot in a spiral motion, dumping out the plantlets, hundreds of tiny Drosera burmannii "Green" babies.
After they were all in, I very gently shook the pot to distribute the seedlings evenly.
I put the pot under lights.
The seedlings are in a shallow puddle and as the water evaporates, they'll slowly be exposed to the surface world and dry air, no sudden shocks.
I'm hoping for a massive colony of Burmannii "Green"s in a community pot.
I don't know if this will work better, but if it does, it's much less work.
And if it doesn't work, oh well, that's why they call it an experiment.