Once I tried sterilizing peat before sowing CP-seeds on it hoping to have
less problems with algae or mold. The opposite was true! Never before have
I observed such a quick growth of these. I suppose that boiling breaks
down the peat, probably by opening still closed cells within the remainder
of Sphagnum. Keeping this substrate under non sterile conditions after
boiling as e.g. your propagating case makes it a good medium for these.
Have other people observed similar things?
Andreas
Andreas Wistuba
Mudauer Ring 227; 68259 Mannheim; Germany
Tel.: +49 621 705471 Fax: +49 621 711307
e-mail: a.wistuba@carnivor.rhein-neckar.de
a.wistuba@dkfz-heidelberg.de
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