What gender are your seedlings?

[veggiechicken]

I know its a daft question but - When you greet your new seedlings do you regard them as male or female?
Mine are most definitely male - so I say things like "'Morning chaps", or, as I said on another thread - "Hello Big Boy".
Is this a female thing or do you gentlemen treat yours as little ladies, or boys?
And yes, the men in white coats will be along shortly!

[zazen999]

VC - put the goat down and step away from the redcurrants.

[Pa Snips]

Although I have been told on numerous occasions that I'm as mad as a box of frogs, I don't talk to my seedlings. I think it has something to do with the fact that I'll eventually eat them and if I personalise them then I'll feel guilty for devouring my little green friends.

You, however, are nuttier than squirrel poop. Congratulations!!!

[veggiechicken]

I'm not casting spells, Zaz, honest!
Come on, admit it, you do talk to your seedlings, everyone who cares about them does. So its simple, are they boys or girls? I won't accept "in between" as an answer!

[Creemteez]

Not really thought about it, but having done so, and due to the fact that I greet my seedlings with , "Hi, Guys!" - I suppose they must be boys. Last year, my Black Russian Tomato plant (Rasputin) definately was a boy, though I have a couple of dozen "Sons of Rasputin" coming up at the moment - so was he their father or mother?????

[veggiechicken]

You, however, are nuttier than squirrel poop. Congratulations!!!

Thank you Pa, that's one of the nicest compliments I've been paid in a lifetime of insults.

[Pa Snips]

Thank you Pa, that's one of the nicest compliments I've been paid in a lifetime of insults.

You are most welcome, us slightly bonkers folk need to look out for each other, the world is a scary place full of 'normal' people.

[super trowel]

Lol! Brilliant !!
I don't talk to the seedlings, but I do talk to kermet

A resident frog in the poly tunnel

[Snadger]

If you'll excuse my French I usually say "C'mon you little sh**s...........GROW!!!!!!!!

So at least I can't be accused of being sexist!

[veggiechicken]

Sorry Super Trowel - but talking to Kermit doesn't count. Its a well known fact that everyone talks to their frogs. Try again!

[Pa Snips]

Lol! Brilliant !!
I don't talk to the seedlings, but I do talk to kermet

A resident frog in the poly tunnel

Now that's a different matter altogether. I talk to spiders and worms and any other creature that I happen across during my working day, and have been known to stroke the odd bee here and there whilst saying "Hello fuzzy little bee, how much pollen have you collected today?"

[veggiechicken]

If you'll excuse my French I usually say "C'mon you little sh**s...........GROW!!!!!!!!

So at least I can't be accused of being sexist!

Hadn't realised that sh**s was a French word. Are you sure you don't mean "she's"

[SlugLobber]

Now that's a different matter altogether. I talk to spiders and worms and any other creature that I happen across during my working day, and have been known to stroke the odd bee here and there whilst saying "Hello fuzzy little bee, how much pollen have you collected today?"

Yep, I'm a talker to things not veg or mineral, which includes all of the above - right down to stroking bees!! Lately I find myself saying 'Hello, cheeky!' to a blackbird and robin (taking advantage of freshly tilled earth, whilst I'm still there!) and same to my pheasants who come for brekkie when I feed the ponies!

[veggiechicken]

You are most welcome, us slightly bonkers folk need to look out for each other, the world is a scary place full of 'normal' people.

Would you like to join the Nutters Club? You seem like a prime candidate for membership!

[rinabean]

I don't talk to them, but if it makes you feel better I'll tell you what I do that's silly. I have a makeshift heated propagator I'm germinating things in (some propagators stacked on a radiator) and whenever I go to check on their progress I put on a little straw hat that's kept near where I sit and tell my husband I'm off to check on the "farm". But they're not boys or girls, though, that would be mad