The seeds were sown, germinated and grown in the polytunnel for approximately three weeks on average. |
After Apollo 14 landed, a Forest Service scientist germinated the seeds at NASA's manned space center at Houston. |
In actuality they are waterproof capsules containing a long radical of germinated seed ready for growth when proper conditions are encountered. |
They germinated well, and in the autumn the little plants were potted up, and placed in the greenhouse for the winter. |
Others were picking spinach, potting up tomato seedlings and re-sowing courgette seeds the first batch of which had germinated poorly. |
Of an estimated 45,000 oospores spread onto germination plates from each isolation, 500 germinated. |