Restraining myself from pestering the seeds I planted only yesterday...
Gotta have a goal! And given the way the climate is going, tolerance to some extreme conditions seems a sensible precaution. I'm not counting on there being LEDs and mains electricity in a decades time...Yeah something that can handle heat and drought from June through August and then heavy rains and even frost both before and after would be nice. Maybe that's asking too much.
Yeah, thats exactly the technique I would use if I've got limited numbers of seeds and every one counts. But I worry that I'll be inadvertently selecting for seeds that *need* that kind of pampering - and as this is a breeding project & I have hundreds of seeds, I want to weed out any seedlines that cant germinate without a helping hand. Planting lots direct to the medium without any special treatment and seeing which can stand on their own feet is a lazy way of selecting.
