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Originally Posted by GoDawgs
Last night's 1/2" of rain wet down the corn bed nicely. This morning I scribed the circles again and seeded the Spring Treat. It was a tad tricky reaching the edges of the circles midway across the bed but I grabbed a piece of pvc pipe, put one end where I wanted the seed and fed the seed down the pipe. Perfect! Why haven't I tried this before? 
Gardeneer, do you know what your soil temp was/is? I've got a germination chart that shows expected germination percentages at various temps and how many days it would take. http://tomclothier.hort.net/page11.html
For corn:
At 50 degrees soil temp, 47% should germinate in 22 days.
At 59 degrees soil temp, 97% should germinate in 12 days.
At 68 degrees soil temp, 97% should germinate in 7 days.
At 77 degrees soil temp, 98% should germinate in 4 days. This one is listed as the optimal daytime soil temp for maximum production in the shortest time.
This morning the soil temp was 60 but we have some 80 degree days coming this next week. |
No, I don,t know what the soil temperature was. I thought that the nature will take its course.
BTW, yesterday i saw few poking. Now with the night lows in 50s , th should pop up soon.