Nicotiana species

[Rimbaud]

OK i'll start this one off Nicotiana xxxx (insert species here)

my place has turned into a native tobacco factory

[thymol]

Oh, don't you just hate it when you try to get a discussion going and nobody replies?

I've never had any problems with Nicotiana being invasive, though most reseed gently.

Speaking of your native species, I sowed the three you sent me last season about two weeks ago. N. suaveolens germinated within five days, but N. gossei and N. maritima have been stubborn; still no seedlings!

[Rimbaud]

Oh, don't you just hate it when you try to get a discussion going and nobody replies?

Happens all the bloody time

those seeds like a bit of light to germ, but apart from that should need no special treatment. Those seeds were fresh (as in, only weeks old) so perhaps just leave them a while longer?? i don't know...

[thymol]

I found maritima and gossei easy before i destroyed all my seeds and ripped out all my plants and threw them on the fire.

Sounds like they got just a little bit too wild for you to handle, eh? Well, I'm glad I got some before their destruction.

I've got these seeds on a heat mat under lights, but now that I think about it I may get much better results if I put them out in the cold frame. A lot of seeds seem to germinate and grow better out there; it may be the fluctuations in temperature.

[Rimbaud]

actually now that u mention it, i think darcy might have told me that at some stage too... the temp oscillations. The maritima is a weed so perhaps just leaving outside and "forgetting about it" will result in some surprise germs (a whole bunch if you're err... lucky? unlucky? )

[rev]

once many years ago.. before big tobacco and the tax office joined hands to stifle competition and tobacco was legal to grow..

had N tabacum and N gossei go to seed together in the garden and none have reseeded.
this is pretty unusual

[Rimbaud]

of course what rev means is that being an enthusiastic citizen of our bureaucro-capitalist nanny state, and being very concerned to make sure that the tax office claims its share of lung cancer excise revenue, and being a stickler for parliamentary detail and processes, and trusting the Tax Office's ignorance about basic botanical nomenclature and common sense, he is using his grammar/tenses in a poetic way here, but he certainly means that these activities were conducted many, many years ago, probably by someone else also with the name "rev", in a land far, far away

[thymol]

Turns out the temp variations worked; at least N. maritima is now coming up en masse. Is this a good thing?

[Rimbaud]

good to hear, well i spose it depends how much you like nicotianas you better start liking them!