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  • From: "Gary & Sarah Rowland" <hcf AT moment.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: pelletted lettuces
  • Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:16:16 -0600


Which seeders are you using?
I've got a easy vacuum seeder that works real good for plug trays, but am
using an old David Bradley for field work that I'm not completely happy with
but beats an earthway by miles.
Gary Rowland
Hairston Creek Farm
Burnet, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: pelletted lettuces


> Pelleted seed became popular back in the seventies as the stanhay seeded
became
> the standard in precession planters and when the greenhouse plug industry
was
> born, from the start we noticed a drop in germination percentage, what
happened
> was the coatings would absorb moisture without letting in oxygen and the
seed
> would rot, some coats would not split and many seeds need light to
germinate and
> could not start until the coating melted away, we solved this in the
greenhouse by
> surface seeding then misting a couple days to dissolve the coating, today
there is
> very little coated seed sold since we have very accurate raw seed planters
in the
> field and the greenhouse...
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
>
> MJ Barnes wrote:
>
> > Needing some help getting the pelletted lettuces to do anything,
> > germ., break out, etc. What are the ideal success stories to make
> > this happen????????? Thanks in
> > advance.
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