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garden5
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I wonder what it is about the moon phases that encourages better germination.

If absolutely none of your seeds have germinated yet, perhaps you should just cut your losses and replant, this time using the heat mat. If you can, replant in a separate bed and see if the current seed bed ever does germinate.

How old are the seeds? How were they stored? You just may have some bad seeds.

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G5 I think you must have missed my post, I just replanted them yesterday. As for the moon phases I think it's the electromagnetic influence on the seeds that helps germination, which tends to give creedence to my thread a while back about electromagnetic seed stimulation at ancient stone circle and mound sites that are on ley line intersections.

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Did the original brussels sprouts seeds ever show anything at all??? Or were they a complete bust? :(

I had that happen with some chard seeds in the ground in perfectly nice weather April 2008. Three 3-foot rows (two or three weeks before I acquired the cement blocks for Bed #1), two chard seeds in each finger-dented planting "hole."

Nothing. Nada. Nichts. Zilch. :x

That bit of territory is now under Bed #1.

So I know the feeling.

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They didn't show anything at all :(.



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