Last night, I took a good look at all my seeds, and these are beginning to sprout:

• Geraniums
• California poppies
• Dianthus
• Hibiscus
• Rudbeckia

I do have some worries, though. The poppies had some mold (is it called “damping off?”) on some of the seeds. I took them out and rinsed them in a sieve, then put them back in a new moist paper towel (a little less moist). I may have to take them out of the baggie and just put them in some soil. My verbena seeds also looked like some mold might be forming, so I did the same with them.

While I was at it, I checked the maple seeds I have stratifying in the fridge, and some of them were getting moldy, too! Bummer. When I put them in the peat moss, I did not put Captan fungicide in like was recommended in that earlier post where I copied some instructions from a forum. I wish I would have bought some. I suppose I can try to add it now. One of the bags had a few Amur maple seeds, and I threw them out, because they were pretty bad. I kept the rest after rinsing them off and removing some of the peat (I think I had put too much in the bags). I hope they make it. No signs of sprouting yet.