Frazzled seeds

Hi all : whats happened is I came home from a days fishing which was red hot I thought I had better check my seeds which had already shown signs of growing as I had little shoots coking threw so I checked them
And they had all looked to have scorched well basically they are dead , now I am wondering will the seeds tht haven't shown signs of growth be ruine too or should I just. Basically leave thm and see what becomes of it, cheers for reply

 

Depends what it is you've sown. The heat might've put the in-germinated seeds back into dormancy, so they will need that to be broken. My advice would be to pull out and discards the already germinated and frazzled seed and throw them away. Soak the seed tray/container and put it in a plastic bag and pop it in the fridge for a week. Then put it back where you normally germinate your seeds and wait and see what happens. With a bit of luck you might get some more germinating.
I would also suggest that in future when you go away for the day you move your seedlings out of the scorching sun or provide them with some shade

 

They where only pansy chilli and and some marigolds , I would also add I am a extreme novice at it lol

 

They where only pansy chilli and and some marigolds , I would also add I am a extreme novice at it lol

 

You say they were scorched. Had you watered them with sun on them or before the sun had moved round. If so, this would be why.

 

i had returned from fishing and i had them in a propogater aswell to give thm a bit of extra protection ,when i removed the lid to see what they where like they wheer just like dry bitd of grass and the steam what came off the soild was really warm

 

It was probably to hot for them. I don't see that you have much chance of reviving them, sorry.

 

no i dont mate , like i said in a the preious post i am a total noob at this , its my 1st time at trying to grow anything never mind just seeds

i am a person who will try anything and learn from mistakes but i do take advice onboard very stonglly

 

That's what gardening's all about noksucnow, keep trying. We're all still learning and it doesn't matter how much experience we've got, there's always something new to pick up.

 

Last year I sowed about 1,000 seeds (my first year) God knows how many of them germinated, but I sowed quite a lot, probably August time, and they were a couple of inches tall, went out for the day and came back, they were all dead.. that was in a plastic greenhouse, so now I always make sure I leave the doors open on it if I'm going out for quite awhile that day. Good luck with future sowings!

 

can i just say to all the peopel who took the time to reply ,thank u for ya time.............. so ok i went and bought a thermometer to read the temps at various times of the day , night time 40 degrees miday 90 , big differance to say all the seeds needs to be kept at 60 lol ...........best thing bought tht thermo , now lets see what happens lol

 

I went to buy a Max Min thermometer at Home base about six weeks ago

Only problem was
All the thermometers on the shelf were showing different ranges from 10c to 22c Max and current, and between 6c and 19c Min
Therefore not much confidence in their accuracy

I bought one of the three showing Min 12c Max 19c as I thought that to be more realistic

Jack McHammocklashing