Just thought I'd post some photos of the babies.
The next few photos are how much they can grow in a day or two. I used a tape measure to show this. I've circled the fan I want you to look at (you may have to click the photo to enlarge it to see the circle). It just amazes me that they can grow about 1/2" a day. The reason I took photos is because I sprayed them with something new to get them to speed up growing since some where really small and I wanted to see if it actually helped. I wish I would have taken a photo of this particular one from the get go. When I plant some more seeds I will actually do an experiment with different things to see if they actually help, if the weather helped them, or if it's just my imagination and they grow this fast anyway.
What I sprayed them with was "MegraGro", a gibberallic acid type spray. The website claims it's gibberellic acid ( a growth hormone), the container says Sea Kelp and inert ingredients (which I assume some of the inert is GA). If you look at the MSDS sheet on this product it says it's GA3. A lot of companies don't list the complete ingredients (such as SuperThrive) because some states consider some of the ingredients pesticides and there are certain regulations on sales to certain states (whole other subject)
I have some seeds that are just whatever crosses that I will experiment with once I get the Essentials Plus 1-0-1 that has lots of good stuff in it (thanks for the photo and info on your cubits Lyle
) that Trimmer, Lee Pickles, and others have used on their seedlings.
Anyway, back to the photos
At 2 1/2" on 02-29
Not at a good angel, but it's at 3" on 03-01
Just a smidgen (Sp?) below 3 1/2" on 03-02. The smaller foliage to the left of it at 2 1/4"
At about 4" on 03-04 and starting to bend over more now. The smaller foilage to the left at 3"
These next ones aren't of a seedling, but I thought I'd show the growth anyway. This is one I almost lost to rot. Some of the daylilies here almost got wiped out with the weather, not freezing them mind you, but with rot. With the way we had warm spells and the center would start to grow on the foliage and then the freeze would come and turn the tender foliage to mush and then the warm spells would turn the mush to smelly rotting mush we started to have a problem. If that mushy stuff doesn't get cut off and treated (I treat with BanRot and Subdue Maxx because I have had no luck with bleach) then that mushy rot just keeps going down that center foliage right into the crown and then you have a real problem, crown rot. The one I'm showing I almost didn't get in time. before it got to the crown. To keep this on topic it has happened to seedlings as well so just pretent this is a seedling
2 1/2" on 02-29
3" on 03-01
3 1/2" on 03-02
4 1/4" on 03-04
