Potting Up The Young Homegrown Wallflower Plug Plants

Pricked Out 10th July Into Individual Plug Trays

Sown on the last day of July, see blog entry for the 31st July 2018 'Sowing Seeds For Winter-Spring 2018/19' , and pricked out on the 10th of August into individual celled plug trays, the young seedlings are ready for the next step in their journey which will eventually take them out in to the college border and container displays.

Young Wallflowers Plugs Ready For Re Potting

For three weeks they have continued to grow in their own little spaces putting on a healthy amount of top growth and developing a strong root system within the soil below.

Plug Plants

White Fibrous Roots

The tips of the white fibrous roots have now begun to spread beyond the confines of the plug tray's cells indicating the young plants are ready for their next move, the move to their own pot.   

Potting Benches Set Up Within The Shade Of A Large Evergreen Holm Oak

Today, within the shade of a large evergreen holm oak, the first of the young plants, Wallflower 'Sunset Orange'; Wallflower 'Sunset Primrose'; Wallflower 'Giant Pink' and Wallflower 'Blood Red Covent Garden, were gently eased out from the clutches of their cells and carefully placed into 10x10x11 centimetre pots filled with a 50/50 mix of John Innes soil based compost and Petersfield seed compost, all in all 347 plants. Having been placed out in to the empty cold frames these young wallflowers will remain in their pots until it is time for them to be planted out in the gardens in about four to five weeks time.

Empty Cells And Plug Plants

Placed In The Cold Frames