I just stuck the most recent two seeds in a cup with potting soil to germinate day before yesterday. I took a nail file and filed down the end slightly where it looks like the leaves emerge, after seeing one that my SIL has that has just started to ‘sprout’ - she did no prior soaking. Hers were planted probably a month before my first two. So ... I have 1 of the first two still in a cup & just planted the two more that soaked from Fri. a.m. to Tues p.m.
My Trombetta di Albanga squash went out to the garden yesterday. They have 5-6 leaves and were really getting ‘leggy’ - about 12 inches tall. They look good today (it’s 90 here) & as soon as they adjust, they should start growing like crazy. I don’t have enough trellis for them (just some woven wire fence) so they’ll have to go up, down, maybe up again. I don’t have any long lengths of woven wire or I’d make the 6-8 ft. trellis they are supposed to need. I’m excited to see how they turn out. :-)
This afternoon (because I thought it would make it hail, and at this point will take moisture in any form), I put one cucuzza that has two true leaves, and is about four inches high out by it’s cattle panel home.
And no, it did not bring hail, snow, or any other form of moisture...
I did remember that for a science fair that my child once did an experiment with sound vibrations (as in bass) on plants, and the ones exposed to rumbling sounds grew faster and bigger than the ones not exposed to vibrations.
If I could remember what she used to “rumble-ize” them, I’d try that on the cucuzzi.