Michele - Raven (adorable) looks like your little gardening buddy and maybe even future hybridizer!!! My oldest (3 1/2 yrs old) granddaughter was over on Thanksgiving Day and she kept wanting to go out into the backyard. She loves being outside at my house. And she wanted to dig in the dirt. (Which is funny because she is otherwise very much the little clean princess!), but her and I turned dirt in an area I've been piling removed dirt. She loved it and I thought it was funny! But that's how it begins ....
I also use cut-up blinds as tags. Cheap and durable!
So let me have you clarify something for me, please ...?
You collect/harvest seeds no later than June 1st? I know you do not chill any of those seeds as I've read that in one of your previous posts. Do you then dry them out and then plant or do you plant the seeds right away after removing them from the pods? You start them in the seed trays. And then move them at 6 weeks old into the ground or a pot? Or am I getting confused?
I grow mine in rows in small plastic shoe bins (with holes burned in the bottoms for drainage). I then transplant to styrofoam cups. 12 oz. cups. And then into another outdoor rectangular container where they grow until Fall. But I know they are not getting enough root room, so that is likely my dilemma. I need them to grow in something much larger or individual pots like you do.
What do you use to mark the pods? I have seen some tags hanging from some pods, but I don't know what those tags are?
