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 Wow!
It has only been a week since we last saw our field. You can see
green plants.
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|
 If
you look down you can see the rows of wheat seedlings. Let’s
look closer.
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 Here
are several seedlings that have only one leaf.
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 If
you look closely you can see the second leaf starting to emerge.
There’s a system that identifies the different stages the wheat
development. It is called the Feekes staging system. There are
many different staging systems, but I like this because it is
pretty easy to remember. Our seedlings are in Feekes stage 1 or
seedling stage.
|
 This
seedling almost has two leaves fully emerged. But I don’t think
all the seedlings have emerged yet. Let’s dig in the row to see
if there’s anything there.
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| Just
as I thought. Here’s a seed with its coleoptile almost to the
soil surface. It will probably emerge tomorrow. We prefer to see
all the seeds germinate and emerge at the same time so they can
better compete with each other. |
