Topic: SEEDS ARE AMAZING!!!

[Duke Ellington]

I chitted these saved seeds to make sure they are still viable.





Duke

[elvis2003]

gues thats a positive then duke!

[antipodes]

Beautiful! Great pics. Peas, are they?

[Duke Ellington]

Yes they are a purple poddded pea with a long name that I can't remember and can hardly pronounce ???
But they produced a lovely mange tout pea and a very pretty purple pink flower. You can leave them to  grow to a mature pea but I didn't think much of the taste of the pea.

Ezeta Krombek Blauwschokker is the name ;D

Duke

[Tulipa]

They are lovely photos  :)

[artichoke]

On Saturday I set some old mixed sugar pea seeds to chit to see which were worth putting into a gutter of compost, and am amazed today, Monday, to see longish white roots sticking out of the old "J cloths" I use for this. (They are not J cloths but some cheaper equivalent, tattered after long use, final service before compost bin).

[Alex133]

I'd love to take close up pictures like that - do you need a really expensive camera?  Mine's useless at that sort of stuff.

[Robert_Brenchley]

You don't need a very expensive camera to get close. Most half reasonable digital cameras have a close-up facility; it's a question of comparing how close the various models let you go. You can then trim away unwanted background in processing.

[galina]

On Saturday I set some old mixed sugar pea seeds to chit to see which were worth putting into a gutter of compost, and am amazed today, Monday, to see longish white roots sticking out of the old "J cloths" I use for this. (They are not J cloths but some cheaper equivalent, tattered after long use, final service before compost bin).

This year I had a lot of old pea seed to use up from 2003 and 2004.  I expected poor germination, so slung them into the sprouter.  Worked very well and most still sprouted to my utter amazement.  I took them out a bit smaller than yours (yes - very nice photos) and stuck them in pots once I could see signs of life.

Anybody used a sprouter for other seeds?  Carrot, parsnip? For peas it was easier than the usual damp kitchen paper, folded over in ziplock bag procedure.