Early Snowball A
\nExpected germination: 8-10 days
\nExpected harvest: 55 days<\/p>\n
9 seeds<\/p>\n
06\/02: Planted 1 per cell in 9 cells.
\n06\/06: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots just visible at surface.
\n06\/10: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots 3\/4″ to 1″ tall.
\n06\/14: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots 1-1\/4″ to 1-3\/4″ tall and another 1 (11%) is struggling at 1\/4″.
\n06\/19: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots 3″ to 4″ tall and another 1 (11%) is struggling at 1\/2″.
\n06\/21: Planted out.
\n07\/01: Heat stressed – added shade.
\n07\/05: Removed shade.
\n07\/18: 10″ to 13″ tall.
\n07\/19: Hosed off as a precaution against aphids which we had found on related plants nearby.
\n07\/22: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
\n07\/24: 14\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 18\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 14\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 17\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3. Some aphids but much fewer than before.
\n07\/28: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad.
\n08\/01: 17\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 20\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 17\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 19\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3.
\n08\/02: Sprayed some leaves with 0.001% spinosad against aphids.
\n08\/07: 15\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 25\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 13\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 20\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3.
\n08\/15: 17\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 27\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 16\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 20\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3.
\n08\/23: 21\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 28\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 18\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 22\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3.
\n08\/30: 21\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 29\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 tall, with foliage diameter 14\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 to 24\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3.
\n09\/18: A few plants have 1\/2″ to 3\/4″ heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Early Snowball A Expected germination: 8-10 days Expected harvest: 55 days 9 seeds 06\/02: Planted 1 per cell in 9 cells. 06\/06: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots just visible at surface. 06\/10: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots 3\/4″ to 1″ tall. 06\/14: 8 of 9 (89%) have shoots 1-1\/4″ to 1-3\/4″ tall and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-annuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}