@AnnofPA
Good for you doing the winter sowing and starting indoors. I don't really have a good place to put winter sow containers and I would rather start early indoors as few as I do. This year I am starting pretty late. I would say don't give up too quickly on your seeds indoors. Even though I had problems and lost quite a few, I do have some good looking seedlings. And I had my most recent seedling appear only about 3-4 days ago (seeds were sown 03/15 and the first of this type was up within a week, the rest at various points between). I debated putting this thread in the seeds forum or propagation but since I mainly follow this forum I thought there might be others that do the same so that is why I posted it here. My biggest mistakes were getting my mix too moist, not having my lights close enough to the seeds/seedlings. As for the light bulbs I am using, they are daylight fluorescents so they don't put out a lot of heat.
What I have left all are getting their first true leaves!! I am thrilled to say the least!! I have a decent amount of the Summer Jewel Lavender, one lone S Stolonifera , 2 leggy but healthy S Penny's Smile, and 5 S Guaranitica var Purpurea. I lost all of my S Alegria seedlings. I have one little seedling that just appeared within the last week and I am not sure whether it is Penny's Smile (which is what the cell it is in contained) or one of the S Guaranitica var purpurea that is in the next section that maybe landed in the wrong cell. It looks more like the latter but so small I can't be sure. Guess I will find out when it grows. Pics are of all 5 of my S Guaranitica var purpurea seedlings and then a pic of the first to appear and largest of them that is taking up better than half the cell now. The true leaves seem to be growing fast now. I still have no S Guaranitica Santa Maria seedlings but am going to leave them be because I don't need to use the container for anything else and just maybe I will yet get one or more.
