Cabbage germination times

[Pies]

This afternoon I sowed my Minicole cabbage seeds into modules which had been filled with compost last week just to settle it a bit.Came back from mothers tonight to find half a dozen have already popped up.Thats about 6 hours

[oldie]

My minicole took 5 days. Maybe yours are miracole.

[gillian62]

What's a minicole?

[Dave & Kate N Wales]

wow that was quick, hubby sowed our cabbages yesterday but no sign of anything yet!!!

[sewer rat]

Are you certain that they are definitely the Minicole seedlings - I had a bad bag of compost last season and I had loads of small weed seedlings emerge before the true seedlings appeared.
If they are the true seedlings, sounds like a record to me - I know you can make parsley germinate really quickly by watering with very warm water, but never heard of it being a matter of hours for seedlings to emerge. Well done.

[King Carrot]

Are you certain that they are definitely the Minicole seedlings - I had a bad bag of compost last season and I had loads of small weed seedlings emerge before the true seedlings appeared.
If they are the true seedlings, sounds like a record to me - I know you can make parsley germinate really quickly by watering with very warm water, but never heard of it being a matter of hours for seedlings to emerge. Well done.

sorry to wet your chips but this is probably the case

[chriscross1966]

What's a minicole?

A small (very small) dutch white autumn cabbage.... which reminds me, I need to get some seeds......

Brassicas generally and cabbages especially, tend to be through fast, I sowed a lot of modules of various veg last weekend, 20-something varieties across 120 modules in the propagators, and the Kalibos cabbages were coming through by Wednesday evening, IIRC the Hispi's I sowed a few weeks agoi were up in days too.....

chrisc

[Pies]

If they are weeds coming through they are very organised and coming through in two to three per module

[Liza]

Well done pies !

their only jealous

[pipscariad]

Well, all I can say is......Wow.

[pjh75]

That's amazing! I'm waiting weeks for everything to germinate.

As you left a week between filling up the modules to settle the compost and sowing your cabbage seeds, could any other seeds have been sown in that time?

[Magiccat1978]

Some of my cauli, broccoli and lettuce started to poke through the soil in 24 hrs, I was shocked

[King Carrot]

Just interested to know if they were they cabbages popping up in record time?

[Pies]

yep they are cabbage,but they have gone a bit leggy

[King Carrot]

Amazing - where did you get the seed from?