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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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pumpkinpal2
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Syracuse, NY
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SO, once your little glasses (or plastic cups, to be discussed later) of AGAR have cooled enough to handle
(15-20 minutes), you can then be amazed by how opaque it is, wonder why it couldn't be more CLEAR,
and note that your kitchen smells like spaghetti cooking before the sauce has been opened and added, etc.
oh, yeah, don't forget to turn one upside down and see how hard it is to...well, you don't need a mess
on the countertop - i'll tell ye, it stays in there pretty good!
As per the picture, (sorry, it's horrid) what you'll do is NOTHING to your test seeds.
just grab each one with a pair of tweezers so that you can place said each one TIP-UP in the agar at a 45-degree angle;
i found that planting them in the vertical, tip-down fashion does not allow any air to get to the radicle and/or
allow the seed to sprout for me at all.
perhaps YOU will have it happen for you, but not for me on this end, just yet.
SO, do the 45-degree thing, as shown. the tips need to JUST be sticking outta the agar, no worries about SLIGHT
submergence, either, if by accident - it HAS happened:
the seeds WILL try to squeeze out of the agar, so, some jockeying and periodic checking of the
positions will be warranted, for a FEW minutes, anyway----see more>>>!!!
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