JK's free seeds

[zakhren]

Well thanks to a guy on cpuk, he sent me free unknown id nep seeds. Lots of them. Must have been like 100+ or something. From Hawaii, arrived today. He says they are N. Splendiana x Maxima -OR- N. Splendiana x Rokko -OR- N. Splendiana x (spectabilis x veitchii) -OR- a mixture of different seeds which is quite probable.

Well I put it in a seed tray with a plastic cover for humidity. Pic :

The left 2 rows are chopped dried sphagnum, the middle row is washed cocopeat/perlite, the 2 right rows are peatmoss/perlite.

He says germination rate has only been 5% in the past, but with this many seeds that's still ok haha.

[David]

Neat and nice, that's how I like my arrangements to be too.

It will be interesting to find out which media will have a higher rate of seed germination.

[zakhren]

Well i'm spraying each pot with water every morning. Humidity is high in that platsic tray. There are like 20-30 seeds in each pot. If 5% is the germination rate I have the possibility of getting 15 plants haha.

[zakhren]

They started germinating yesterday! ;D 3 germinating so far. All on cocopeat. I guess cocopeat:perlite really is the better medium for germination.

[zakhren]

Another germination! This time on the peat moss~ Though one of the ones germinating on the cocopeat didn't seem to form properly so I'm considering it dead unless it recovers. So I'm still gonna say 3 germinations so far.

[zakhren]

One more today! On the chopped sphagnum moss. Seems like germination happens faster on cocopeat, but doesn't seem to effect the final number of germinations. Well that's what I can tell so far.