DESERT ROSE SEED TRIAL PART 2

For the seed trial I decided to try four seeds and see what happens. The old standby yogurt cups with drain holes cut in the bottom will once again come in to use. They are plastic and hold up well to be used over and over to start seeds in. Four of the cups were filled with commercial seed starting mix. I have found the seed starting mix to be invaluable because it is finely ground and much lighter than regular soil to start seed with.

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Once the cups were filled with the potting soil they were put into an old plastic greenhouse tray. The soil was then wet down until it was moist with some collected rainwater. As per the advice from the Internet I cut off the fuzzy part of the Desert Rose seeds on both ends. Then the seeds were sprayed with a fungicide. I found spray Daconil and used it as the fungicide . I don't know if that is required but it was suggested to dust the seeds with fungicide so I did.
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The seeds were then placed on
top of the moist soil and covered with a very shallow topcoat of the soil mix.

You can see in this picture the seeds at the tip of the yellow arrows just prior to being covered over with soil.




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The clear plastic top of the mini greenhouse tray was put into place . It is supposed to keep the moisture inside and not let the cups dry out to fast.

It is not required but I had it and figured might as well use it for something.

So that's it . Now we wait to see if we get any results from the harvested seeds and the planting methods used. --------sanddune-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------