GARDENING DISASTER >> find lemonade and silver lining

[applestar]

I'm having a bad day. This morning, when I checked my pepper and tomato seed incubating bucket of water with "thermostatically controlled" aquarium heater, it was very nice and warm... Like a hot tub... Like TOO HOT! Quick check the temp with an accurate thermometer ...
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN DEGREES!!!!

Well, so much for the pepper seeds and some tomato seeds I'd hoped to fast track

So the bad news is there were a quart and pint deli container full of seeds I was incubating to germinate and sprout.

Now for the lemonade --

- I had run out of zip bags and was running low of spoon and forks. I decided that I won't buy any more, and *only* start more seeds as old zip bags become available after all the seeds have sprouted and are planted. (But I had so many more varieties I wanted to grow...)
- I had some pepper and eggplant varieties for which one or two seeds that had sprouted but there were remaining seeds that hadn't, and some that didn't germinate at all -- I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. Now their condition is definite.

>>> I have empty zip bags to more varieties of tomatoes that I wanted to grow <<<
>>> I was able to review the varieties and decide to try again or give them up for this season <<<

[Mr green]

Is that really a disaster? Most seeds should have survived that? 115 degrees is just above the limit for whats considered alive raw food, so I'm thinking most seeds would survive a short time of that amount of heat.
I may have calculated wrong with the degrees since I'm on a different system here in europe than you... If so never mind my post at all.

[applestar]

Now you tell me ....

No. It's for the best. I need an excuse to start over that batch. If I don't take action now and they don't grow, I'll be forever kicking myself.