James Wong - seeds

[zazen999]

I just thought that as the caroselli are cucumber/melon crosses they sound the same as JW's watermelon/gherkins ................

I'll just stop thinking now.......... LOL

Melothrie as I know them are really tiny. Think the size of.....a 50p piece.

[zazen999]

So - the Agastache are up, have two true seeds and have just been repotted.

Stevia - 1 up.

Wild White Strawbs - lots up and will pot on when they have two true seeds.

The one I wanted to grow - Wintergreen. Nada. Will have to scrape the compost into a tray of it's own and leave in the greenhouse when I pot the strawbs on as I will need the space for the next batch of seeds.

[ancee]

Has anyone had any success yet then?
Wintergreen - not a shoot to be seen
Tomatillo - shoots seen - zero
Cucamelon - not a leaf nor a stalk
Musk melon - nothing again
I've got Inca berries shoots and electric daisies
I've planted them at the right time, other stuff planted is popping up nicely, but Mr Wong's recommendations are a poor show so far

[zazen999]

I have the white strawbs up [about half of them, wil count them when I repot them] and what I thought was stevia is not but stray strawbs. agastaches are ok. But not a jot from the Wintergreen.

I found my original purchase today so will be sowing those soon, may try 1/3 in heated prop, 1/3 in prop with lid but not heated and 1/3 in greenhouse.

I PM-ed the suttons guy who sent me the empty wintergreen seed packets saying he was hilarious. No response.

[stella]

Just come across this thread at the same time as looking at the Suttons/Wong seed catalogue, which I now think I shall put in the bin, thanks for the advice

[VirginVegGrower]

Just come across this thread at the same time as looking at the Suttons/Wong seed catalogue, which I now think I shall put in the bin, thanks for the advice

Look at Pennards and Chase organic.

[veggiechicken]

.....and Goggle the plant/seed names first and find out their more usual names - you may find you have them already. For example, Inca berries are what I call Physalis or Cape gooseberries - they're in the VSP!!

[binley100]

ooh cape gooseberries I have those .......

[veggiechicken]

Just running through the Wong seeds and the VSP!
Chinese Chives = Garlic chives = in VSP
Chop Suey Greens = Shungiku = in VSP
Inca Berries = Cape Gooseberry = in VSP
Japanese beefsteak plant = purple perilla (not in VSP)
New Zealand Yams = Oca
Purslane = in VSP
Quinoa = in VSP
Salsify (and Scorzonera ) = in VSP
Tomatillo = in VSP

I haven't looked up all of them - just the obvious ones!!

[kathycam]

Dahalias are doing great- only 2 inca berries came up. No cucamelons or chop suey green but only put in a week or less ago.

[Tripmeup]

Cucamelons up...
Inca berry...very shy!!

[Vixen218]

Just read this post...
I brought inca berries, Callaloo, wintergreen, sweet sunshine pepper, goji berries...

Didn't have many seeds in any of the packets, about 6-10 except for the pepper ones which only had 5 seeds but I thought that was how the packet should be, didn't look to see how many there should be...

Annoying thing is that not even half of them have sprouted and out of the 5 pepper seeds only 1 has sprouted...

Might have to write to them xxxx

[sammy_roser]

Musk Melon and Fiesta popcorn have come up quite fast, cucamelon and asparagus peas there are no signs of yet.

[Paulieb]

Cucamelons up...
Inca berry...very shy!!

I've grown cape gooseberries the last few years and from memory they always need reliable constant heat like a heated prop and seemed to take ages to germinate. Along the lines of chillis I'd say..

[kizkiz]

Had cucamelon, tomatillo and daisys
Both the first two had more than the average seeds in packet. I didn't count the hundreds in the daisys. lol
Planted 5 of each cucamelon and tom. 9/10 germinated within days and now potted on