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Post by Sher on Nov 9, 2020 16:16:51 GMT -5
Machine: Harvest 360 Seeds: Viola: Penny All Season Mix Vendor: David's Garden Sponges: Park Seed Nutrients: AG
3 seeds per pod to start
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 18:29:50 GMT -5
Those will be pretty and so delicate!  |
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Post by Sher on Nov 9, 2020 19:37:13 GMT -5
Thanks @cornne. I have so much pink and red, my eyes brightened when I saw the orange, yellow, purple and white. I hope I get all the colors.
I also plan to start Gerbera daisies tomorrow after I sanitize a Bounty. I don't think I will do it as a GAL because I'm hoping it will be a long term project that can be planted outdoors in spring.
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Post by Shawn on Nov 10, 2020 5:46:14 GMT -5
These will be so pretty
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 9:34:50 GMT -5
I hear you when you talk about hoping for a variety of colors. So many times I order a 'MIX' and get most of 1 color and very few of any other in the pack. I am hoping you get a good balanced mix in the pack.
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Post by Shawn on Nov 10, 2020 10:16:53 GMT -5
I hear you when you talk about hoping for a variety of colors. So many times I order a 'MIX' and get most of 1 color and very few of any other in the pack. I am hoping you get a good balanced mix in the pack.
I agree. That happened with my Happy Days Marigolds.
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Post by Sher on Nov 16, 2020 10:49:53 GMT -5
I see life in one pod this morning.
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Post by Sher on Nov 21, 2020 13:37:04 GMT -5
There are tiny plants in three pods. I added extra seeds to the remaining 3 pods just to up the odds of all of them germinating.
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Post by Sher on Nov 28, 2020 16:14:50 GMT -5
My GAL violas make @cornne 's sloth look like a road runner!
4 came up. I reseeded 2 pods and one of them has sprouted.
I did not remember adding nutes when I planted them, so when they were so slow growing, I figured that was the reason. So I added more nutes. Then I noticed that some of them looked burned, so I checked the ppm.
YIKES! They were way over fertilized.
So I just did an R&R. They may or may nor survive.
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Post by Shawn on Nov 29, 2020 6:10:18 GMT -5
Be positive  Hopefully they will do fine. I got rid of all my meters. It drove me crazy. I just go by looks and some corrections then decide. But that is just me  |
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Post by Sher on Nov 29, 2020 7:20:57 GMT -5
I am hoping that these will be one of those projects that takes forever to get going, but once it does, it will really take off.
It doesn't look like I killed them. Yet. 
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Post by Sher on Dec 4, 2020 21:35:06 GMT -5
The two pods I reseeded are up. I reread the planting instructions. You are supposed to grow them indoors for three months before moving them outdoors. So they are supposed to be slow.
I wish I had realized that before commiting a Harvest to such a pokey project!
Here they are almost one month after planting.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 9:58:55 GMT -5
Even though they are pokey they are worth the wait. Hang in there. You are impatient like me.How do we ever attempt peppers??!!
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Post by Sher on Dec 5, 2020 15:35:05 GMT -5
Even though they are pokey they are worth the wait. Hang in there. You are impatient like me.How do we ever attempt peppers??!!
You have me pegged! Waiting for peppers to ripen is agonizing!
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Post by ERR0R1755 on Dec 5, 2020 18:04:01 GMT -5
I look at slower plants as an opportunity to be more hands-off with my garden  |
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Post by waterphoenix on Dec 6, 2020 9:29:50 GMT -5
Yes.. violas and pansies take forever to germinate. But once they come up they will be so pretty and you will not regret it They are some of my favorite flowers. I have some Johnny jumpup violas I started from seed out on the front porch and they were worth the wait. |
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Post by Sher on Dec 6, 2020 9:40:26 GMT -5
waterphoenix, I bought some Johnny Jump Up plants one year to grow outside. They were such sweet flowers. They reseeded and came back on their own for a couple of years.
In spring we have at least 3 different varieties of wild violets come up on the back of our property. Sometimes a birdsfoot violet will show up in the front yard.
I just love them!
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Post by waterphoenix on Dec 6, 2020 10:35:47 GMT -5
Your lawn sounds lovely. I hope ours re-seed as well!
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Post by Sher on Dec 13, 2020 14:23:34 GMT -5
The violas are poking along. The darker green plants on the left are stealing light from an adjacent Harvest.
The later-seeded two on the right could apparently use more light.
I am wondering if bugs are causing the rolled up leaves in the center front plant. I plan to spray them with neem oil later today, just in case.
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Post by Sher on Dec 24, 2020 11:33:03 GMT -5
Well, they are finally starting to grow a little.
I think I have a bug problem with the two center ones. I pinched out the distorted leaves on the center front plant, then the one behind it started showing the same symptoms.
I soaked them in neem oil again last night.
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Hopefully they will do fine. I got rid of all my meters. It drove me crazy. I just go by looks and some corrections then decide. But that is just me 
