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Mar 1, 2013 1:46 PM CST
Name: Denise Warner
Bordentown, New Jersey, USA (Zone 7a)
Vegetable Grower
Wrote a longish post and then lost it. grrr! Here's the shortened version:

I had read...somewhere...that disturbing the roots of double zinnias when transplanting might make them revert to singles. Recommendations were to sow them in individual cells or peat pots--which is not part of the process of winter/spring sowing.

Googled the premise and saw it in several sites, including this one:

http://books.google.com/books?...


If the link doesn't work, it's from the Seed Starters Handbook.

But then, how much "disturbance" is too much?

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