The catalogue information on geranium Maverick white claims there are 10 seeds to a pack. I only count nine. I rip the pack apart but no lost seed. The pack cost $3.85 or over 38 cents a seed - a bargain really. In Thunder Bay small geraniums sell for a buck or more. Other plants are much cheaper. The lavatera pack holds 100 seeds at $1.95 a seed or just under two cents a plant. Wave petunias seeds are usually the most expensive annual seeds in the catalogue.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell how many seeds are in a pack. Some seed companies omit this important information. Sometimes it is in the catalogue and sometimes not.
Last night I took the wet paper towel packet with the NINE germinated geranium seeds and lifted them out holding on to the tiny leaves. They came away from the towel easily. I pressed them into the plastic four packs (saved from nursery purchases. Some of my four and six packs are so old they are held together with duct tape). Accordign to the directions on the packet, the four packs have to be left under lights continually for three days and then drop to 16 hours a day.
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