Thanks guys for the concern re my surgery, it's nothing really, just an arthroscopy on my knee I messed up. I expect though that by the time my knee is ready for gardening, we will have a good blanket of snow.
I've decided to pot them up in a better medium than last year and keep them on the bottom shelf where it's cooler and hopefully by January they will have had enough and senesce on their own or with a little help from me. Rick there was lots of moisture in the baggies of seedlings from my friend and temperature changes as well because they were in the fridge, condensation was really bad and I had to pull them out again to dry out, then back into the fridge.
Rick why do you say that being under lights will mean a longer time to flowering? Does growing them on when they should have senesced affect the bulb somehow so they are developmentally delayed from the others? I had a pot of henryi seedlings I started last year and they kept sending up new leaves when I was trying to get them to die back last fall so I gave up and kept them growing all winter. This summer, without ever having lost their leaves, the henryi started putting up 6 to 8 inch stems. I planted them back in September and they were still as green as ever when the foliage was frozen. Will they be alright after being frozen off like that?
