to get their little night caps on they are still in the winter mode just kind of they do a lot of standing around a lot of preening a lot of eating standing out in the stuff for last forty minutes wish i had a big down jacket problems into the controlled environment here where there are no predators for it to do is like giving a little ice wipe off any dirt the little ice and all that moisture out of  and problems careful don't burn yourself ask your parents kids s talk let us have this fragrant choi under the lights here and it hasn't come up you know we've been doing these flat all you know two weeks has gone by and i still haven't seen that letters come up as i've said light less can be a light germ dependent germinate or which is what we're doing here we've got one thin layer of paper moistened on top of these seeds so they can see the light near red light stimulates germination in the lettuce seeds he's been on the cotton for two days now and i don't see a single sprout  this is the fragrant choy lettuce that i got from the asian seed company and it's supposed to have jasmine scented lettuce leaves you know it's a lack to cause the t v like any other lettuce but it sounded like it had a fragrance to that i thought that was pretty cool so i'm thinking i might have some seed because the lettuce is fairly easy to sprout particularly you know even if it won't grow for you a good should sprout under these conditions here old little email to the company there if this doesn't come up the other thing i may try however is warm up a little before i pull the plug on the project  most lettuces inhibited about seventy two degrees in the germination will slow down or stop once you get up to the five it's really a cool weather germinate or that's why you generally grow in the cooler kaleidoscope of colors the problem is they don't seem to want to come up for me nothing in the instructions says that they're particularly difficult but they never work for me so i started looking at these guys and i thought well you a little bit of fun ness i could get that outer seed coat off dormant chemical dormancy and you really have to soak that out of the seed coat to make them work so i've done is i've set up a little experiment here with three cups i've got four clocks where the only thing i did was clip the top i just left it at that and i got to sew twelve hour or so so just clipped you know just to let the water in this is this would be saying that the what if the water gets in and it sprouts just fine then we're going to say that this coating has no inhibit siv qualities for the germination  once they're open to the water so these were i was a little more careful with the water because they obviously started soaking it up right away and i don't want to turn mushy peas of expanded about a third of their size already and there are still looking good not too mushy so in this case if if the clipped ones don't sprout you know they've got the water inside and these ones do sprout i'd say that the seed coat does have some inhibitive qualities to  which allows me to deliver my factoid of the week so let's take a look at the carob seeds this is kara you might remember from the seventy's this was going to be the big chocolate substitute spain is the main grower for and again hard shiny coat very water resistant and the first time i tried these i so pleased for two or three months and they did not take any water up they did not change size they did not mold they did not the water didn't even get bad so they seemed almost to have a microbial quality to them soaking in that water which should be probably investigated and then after two months of soaking i nicked a couple of them put them back in the water and immediately like the next day they started swelling within a few more days they were sprouting that's what we've got  e make them so dumb and started them on cotton you know much like we're doing with the lettuce here within a few days these guys started sprouting i let him go for maybe another day at which point i pot of them up about three eighths of an inch deep for a nice big seed like that and at this point see we've got a hundred percent germination nice healthy seedlings and we're off to the races  care of real cuss be whether it can grow here let's have some see that was getting old had to had to try one more time what i found with this with the care of particularly is very dry  i watered this in just enough to settle it like this much water on top and i set it in about this much water on the bottom for just a dip and that's all they've been getting the they will rot out  know this is a really long season crop you know even overwintering you know semi perennial you know it's a big fiscal the artichokes grown up on these big stocks it's very spectacular plant and i'm starting i'm very early to get maximum growth so we can try to produce artichokes in the first year and what we did was we had these things on cotton plant of these up on the show last week and we got one that did not sprout out of the whole package you know some of them sprouted really strange artichokes have a habit of like us they'll sprout the the leaves out first rather than the group like most plants and you'll actually if you just plant in soil sometimes it looks like they're doing a headstand the root comes up when the leaf goes down call those out that's bad gene pool right there i haven't seen albino ism in artichokes lack of korra fill is not good for a photosynthesizing plant so you won't have to call out the albinos they'll pretty much die as soon as they use up the starches from the sea and overall you know you get weak ones and you know weeks lanes and runts with artichokes you're going to get a few outstanding plants out of the package so you will tell you who they are for instance first are the ground was a good potted them up in a fairly deep pot because these do have a long tap root and that's basically you know of the perennial part of the thing that will over winter and so  take a look at its parts more because i had some more success in this here what i did was i noticed this a couple days ago it's not good to leave  on that wet cotton because they will start to get a little slimy they need once you're up and running you need to get a dry him out a little bit as you can see i put them in a low coconut coyer here is a temporary solution they are no exception to the good drainage i'm going to take some recycled mix through the whole pot and then i'm going to throw in the big promise here a big chunk of all right so let's find out how many we've got in here you know you're seatle come up will have emerged out of the soil will still have that seed code on it happens if it happening to you you might want to try that particular species a little deeper because you know these things kind of curl up and that motion strips the seed coat off but occasionally you can just go in and if it's just a matter of point it off like that that one is easy occasionally if they're stuck you want to get on that seam you know that around there and then you know give it all squeeze you know you can see that kind of opens up the the you do it right you know it's it's like squeezing the little chinese finger trap open and can help release that plant sort of these guys with my special stick here to break the soil you know obviously this needs to be fairly close to the surface because you know if they had been grown in soil they'd be right about there on the soil so that's where i want to end up maybe a little bit deeper to help them shed that seed but not much going very deep at all it's just getting started this is the emerald variety and we've had a hard time finding it sort of a new variety in the last ten years american made the people who bred it say it does great things hope that's not just parents pride these things do good for us all right enough and with this stuff it's not it's really not pretty easy release because just enough resistance to pull those seed coats off and then slight disguise i like to put a little mineral mulch the appropriate amount once a week but say it also hold that moisture at the ideal for longer before it starts died of this i'm going to give it a little bit of water on top and a little bit of water for i don't want to with a pot this big i don't want to start soaking these baby plants all that much back and put a little nutrient at the bottom stretch for it