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Post by Cherry on Mar 10, 2013 15:12:52 GMT
Sweetpea would say your seeds would be fine. He has also said the seeds come true from the parent plant, which is not the case with most plants, and they can even be frozen.
Sweetpea will let you know the best place to sow the seeds now. You should be ahead of me in climate, but probably similar to Sweetpea in Wales. I have to sow in the cold greenhouse because of the mice, birds and rabbits.
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 10, 2013 17:17:32 GMT
I have just sown a lot yesterday. Mainly in small pots and placed on the g'house bench. No heat. Pots covered with newspaper to stop drying out when the sun shines. (Chance would be a fine thing)  I have sown two seeds per 3" pot and three seeds per 3 1/2" pot At this time of year you could also direct where they are to flower and I will be doing some like that in my daughter's garden later. |
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Post by edwin on Mar 10, 2013 17:24:43 GMT
Ok, so i can still use some off the seeds i got this week. Will put them in the greenhouse because on the allotment there are to many pigeons and i only got few seeds of some varieties ;D
Thanks Sweetpea.
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Post by Cherry on Mar 11, 2013 8:11:31 GMT
I have just sown a lot yesterday. Mainly in small pots and placed on the g'house bench. No heat. Pots covered with newspaper to stop drying out when the sun shines. (Chance would be a fine thing) I have sown two seeds per 3" pot and three seeds per 3 1/2" pot At this time of year you could also direct where they are to flower and I will be doing some like that in my daughter's garden later. Just sowed mine too SP on the same day as you did. Mine are in the cold greenhouse shaded by the solid top bench. I always have to do mixed pots for neighbours every year anyway. |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 11, 2013 15:18:55 GMT
Hope they all grow ok. I have noticed that every seed of mine has germinated and is well through now, all that is except Anniversary. now I know that this has a hard flinty seed and normally I would chip ALL my seeds but since my stroke it isn't easy for me to control a razor blade to do this. Looks like I will have to try some more and this time chip them and draw blood too  Who said gardening was easy? ;D BTW the temp. dropped to 32F in the g'house last night but all is okay. |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 12, 2013 11:14:15 GMT
30F. last night one anniversary now showing through so still hope for the rest.
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Post by marynz on Mar 17, 2013 7:34:26 GMT
I found some mixed winter and spring flowering sweet pea seeds - the selection is called Equinox - and planted them direct where they are to grow today. We have had some rain today, although we are still technically in drought, so I felt sufficiently optimistic to plant something.
Is there anything different in that care of winter and spring flowering varieties? We have frosts but no snow here. It is our autumn.
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Post by scrumpy on Mar 17, 2013 9:19:58 GMT
Oh dear. I just hate the weather forecasters. Last night a bit of light rain was forecast. My daughter came home from the pictures at 11 o'clock covered in snow. Couldn't believe it. Poor sweet peas took a real battering, looks like a few have bent over too much.  Ah well, theses things are sent to try us. |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 17, 2013 11:53:42 GMT
They can cope better than we can scrumpy  |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 22, 2013 13:57:31 GMT
Checked the g'house earlier and the door had blown open during the night's storms. The newspaper covering the pots was saturated so removed it as anyway the first sign of germinating seeds was evident.
Goes to show that even with all the sub zero temperatures of late the SP seeds will still germinate. Hopefully more will follow in the coming days.
my g'house door slides open with the lightest touch so I will have to fasten it closed when the weather is bad. Usually a bungee cord does the trick,
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Post by steve2t on Jul 10, 2013 10:43:13 GMT
What are judges looking for in a vase of sweetpeas? (Marion is doing ok in the containers but some of the others are loosing buds at a very early stage)
I now know why they are grown one stem up! what a difference!!
steve.
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 10, 2013 14:30:18 GMT
What the judges look for as far as my memory goes and in no particular order are, Condition, (ie no pests or disease evident)
Trueness of colour for the variety and uniformity (no good a vase of 9 white with one a whiter shade of pale.
Weight of bloom (size) with no gappiness between the florets and not bunched up either.
Stems which are straight with the length proportionate to the head of bloom and last but not least, staging. No staging material to show over rim of vase and the correct amount of stems as per schedule. No foliage other than sweetpea foliage unless allowed in schedule.
A well balanced exhibit will not get you more marks but if competition is tight then that will swing it your way.
Flowers should be fresh with no sign of the keel opening or florets drooping no tucked wings or any deformities.
All commonsense stuff really. ideally with the top floret just opened and before the bottom one fades.
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Post by steve2t on Jul 10, 2013 22:14:32 GMT
Many thanks sweetpea!!!
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Post by Bess on Jul 23, 2013 23:39:38 GMT
I seem to have completely lost my ability to grow sweet peas in pots - bit puzzled! Does anyone else do this? Apologies if I've missed a thread about it. I first started to grow them in big pots in my parent's garden, around a big mesh ring, as otherwise the chickens/dogs/ducks etc were the end of them. About 2 plants to a pot, fairly big deep 8-10L pot. They were great, lots of flowers. Now I am trying to do the same thing on a patio in town, same compost, and the past two years they've been short, spindly, yellowing really fast and looking really unhealthy. Does anyone have a sure fire sweet-peas in pots 'recipe?'  I wonder if I might be giving them too much fertiliser or something as I don't see they could have too little, they're too small to have outgrown the pots! |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 24, 2013 9:32:29 GMT
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I wonder if I might be giving them too much fertiliser or something as I don't see they could have too little, they're too small to have outgrown the pots! 
