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Germinated wonderfully

Maybe these are tricky to grow. We have some success and have moved the small sprouted seeds to bigger containers. They seem like they are surviving. The others are slow. One just popped up.

I tried a tip from a friend for germination using about 20 seeds. The germination rate was almost 100%. Steps as following (1) soak the seeds in water overnight (2) sandwiche the soaked seeds in between moist paper towels (3) keep the seed/paper towel “sandwiches” in a dark place (I used a black to-go plastic food container with lid on (4) allow ventilation to avoid mold growth (I simply opened the lid daily to check progress). Here is my observation of the germination process. For the first 12-ish days there seemed nothing happened. Then a few of the beans started to swell in size and then started to sprout in a few days. The skinnier/weaker looking beans took longer to sprout, about 3 weeks. But eventually I have more seedlings than I need out of the 20 seeds. In April I planted one seedling in the ground in a sunny spot. And another one in a gallon size pot. The one in the ground really took off after July when the day light became long and temperature gets high (in Houston Texas).it blooms profusely, attracting bumblebees. And hummingbirds like the flowers as well. The one in the pot did grow to reasonable size but barely has any flowers.

I planted about 25 of the seeds I purchased from this seller, but none of them have germinated. It’s very disappointing. I used the same soil and planted seeds from other sellers on the same day, and those have already sprouted. It has now been 15 days. In the photo, the lower right shows the purple pea seeds I bought from here.

Beautiful flowers to look at and great for teas when they dry.