Hot weather seeds

The last 2 days we've been in the low 80's and my vine seeds seems to like the weather responding immediately to germination, they were sowed around 2 weeks ago and around 5 days later only two of five germinated at that time, but I think it was because on the germination days we had 2 days of 80 degrees then we had cooler days and nothing, the other seeds didn't showed up, until today!, yes, yesterday and today we touched the low 80's again, so obviously the plants like this temperatures. Same thing happened to my zinnias, hot weather annuals start to grow fast from seed when the weather is right!, it a lesson I just learned.

By mid January I sowed several seeds indoors(marigolds, calendulas and other hot weather annual seeds), from my experience it was not a good choice, the weather was still too cold for them and when is colder than 35 F you cannot let them in the outside because they are not pansies or violas and at those temperatures they could die; so bringing them in and out becomes tedious with the weather fluctuations.

Next time you think in sowing this kind of seeds, wait to last week of february and watch the forecast to see if the next week will be hot. If some weeks later you have the misfortune of a cold front heading your way, then cover your plants to protect them.

White cypress wine and giant white moonflower.

At the corners zinnias envy and candy cane.