How to Plant Impatien Seeds
- 1). Fill the cells of your seed flat with the soil mixture up to 1 to 1-1/2 inches from the top.
- 2). Dip the seed flat in water up to the level of the soil.
- 3). Pour your seeds from the seed packet into a small bowl.
- 4). Wet the tip of a wooden toothpick and use it to pick up a single seed. The seeds are extremely small, so this will allow you to manipulate individual seeds.
- 5). Move the seed to a single cell of the seed flat, and press it down into the soil about an inch or so. Pull the toothpick back out and make sure the seed isn't still sticking to it, then repeat for each cell of your seed flat.
- 6). Dip the seed flat into water one more time after you have planted in each cell.
- 7). Cover the seed flat in plastic wrap and place in a place where the temperature will remain between 70 and 75 degrees.
- 8). Remove the plastic wrap as soon as the seedlings sprout, which should occur in two to three weeks.
- 9). Place the seedlings in a window that gets a lot of sun or under a fluorescent shop light, hung 6 inches above the plants, watering only occasionally when the soil gets dry, and keep the temperature at 50 to 60 degrees.
- 10
Place the plants outdoors, still in the flats, seven to 10 days before you transplant them into the ground. Transplant individual impatiens plants after no more frost is likely.
Source...