🤣🤣🤣. Love your "wrapping dance". And didn't catch any fish! Lucky it was only a 3 day germination lesson learnt. Plenty of time to start again. Happy days. 👍
I have been doing this for a couple of years. I started covering in plastic wrap when I was starting seeds in solo cups because I didn't have a humidity dome for the cups. I also figured out, for those that don't want to waste plastic and are starting in cups, that I could use the clear party favor bags on the cups and reuse them the next time.
Never needed any cover for my seed starting thus far. Just water them when media starts to dry due to light and heat mat. I know it’s about saving time but, if you don’t keep an eye on a high humidity setup, then damping off can wipe them out fast. Might try some like that.
I've got a big roll of that also. So what do u think about kinda Makin a homemade greenhouse with it. Maybe big enough for 3 or 4 162 trays. If u could make it with a door or something do u think that plastic would work? My problem is I've only got so many grow lights and heat mats and all that is done inside the house. So once my transplants get good and growing I'd like to take em outside but it's not warm enough all the time yet I don't think. I live about 45mins south of ATL Newnan ga
Germinating inside can be tricky sometimes, maybe with more strict environmental controls its easier. I bring my seed trays into my bedroom and on top of my playstation or an old laptop I don't use anymore for heat, but sometimes they do it overnight and turn out 2 inches high on translucent stems, (which happened with my marigolds, but not the tomatoes I had with them just a week ago). Does that mean its too warm? I would guess its around 80-85 between the room and heatsource.
The worst part is you didn’t catch any fish! Dang that’s rough. But hey a day on the lake with a fishing pole and good times is better than any day at work 🤣
The only watermelon accident I want to hear about is "John, I picked too many watermelon and they're ripe and perfect all at once, oooooweee!" Greg, I think I can help.
Depends what you plan on growing. Watermelons would be April 15th. Be careful though. I sounds like we in the same zone. Last year we had a frost on may 29th. Farm report this morning made it sound like El Niño is going to give us a late spring. Which they said leads to late planting because of cold soil.
Hi. Starting seeding this year and I’m a little confused. Does it matter how many times you wrap the layers of plastic over the tray? Just once, twice, 3 times etc. Does it change from types of seed you use? Thanks.
I haven’t used enough. I only have to 2 sprouting. I have very little moisture under plastic. Tomatoes and peppers. So should I remove plastic wrap it’s been three days. Mine aren’t like that. Okay then I will remove from tomatoes and leave over peppers for two more days.
I get the part of heat and humidity, the confusing part is the moisture. Primarily how much to wet the soil, many so called experts say you don't want a wet mix but sometimes the soil dries up when it's on the heat mat. What am I not getting?
wet the soil before planting. You want it to hold up and stay in a ball when you compress it with you hand. Keep it moist until the plant pops up through the soil.
roflmao! Do your work first! Anyway been using the saran wrap for years now but, I don't wind it up a bunch like you do. Saran works better than those dome lids at least for me.
Got to use less plastic in this world. Maybe some old window glass would be better. I know it isn't nearly as convenient, but we are now all breathing micro bits of plastic. Just saying...
