Have another :grin: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/g1PLIAc4MNSbfackwSZonPR_s2qzqRcqohXBYCdHS1gzzGvJvypDunhjAALy5Qv2iU-xESP7sJUcxKe7eIZFan8gnyDPw2X86i7PsTWidakL1rp1OsHS3-YAh3CHk168hsuYZncJQR8=w1920-h1080 Having just spent hours (or it seems like days) planting mesemb seeds (the first time I have ...

FredG wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:38 pm

Nananthus vittatus

You are wrong ..... that's a large portion

Chris L wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:39 pm

The way I found very effective at reducing moss in my seed pots was to buy the very ratest moss spores I could find, ideally those at four times the price of my cacti seeds....

Nice one (or should that be two?)

Absolutely. And I would throw in an additional thought or two. Would the ones which failed in the moss environment, have changed the course of evolution, had they survived? By creating artificial environments, do we change the course of evolution? By creating artificial environments, do we change t...

Both really :mrgreen: But I had the plants/seeds in mind. Under consideration here are examples of the seeds that made it, how many of the seedlings did not make it in the same pockets of moss? And how the odds differ while exposed to other conditions? Sowing seeds "in captivity" is all about maxim...

Seen a few Zoom presentations, recently, of trips to the far flung locations on this planet, wherein the presenter commented upon seedlings growing quite well, in the wild, tucked comfortably in a pocket of mossy material, in the nook of a hillside. Then we have those who pontificate upon following...

Jura wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:04 pm

It seems that I was actually cooking my seedlings with the grow light.. ...........

Yup
Did that last year. So easy to do. Cooked the most expensive seeds. The cheaper seeds seemed to cope.