Floret Farm Tour: Seed-Starting in the Greenhouse 

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Thank you for all of this information. You are so generous with your knowledge and your videos are always such a joy to watch!

💚💚💚We ordered the complete Floret’s Collection and this first succession we had an 83% germination rate overall with planting 100 Dahlia seeds, 250 Zinnia seeds and 300 Celosia seeds! First time sowing in a greenhouse and we have almost 600 seedlings to start hardening off over the next few weeks in Zone 7b! 💚💚💚

This is an absolute blessing all the way around. Thank you Floret crew for helping us all. I cannot wait to see the "proof" that everyone sends in to you all of their labor. Amazing...keep up the great work and I cannot wait to get started. Sky truly is the limit, it is up to how far we can climb. Appreciate it all, love from the Midwest!

Thanks Erin, great refresher!

I just got my seeds from you today. I am so excited to grow these beautiful treasures. Thank you

I am so happy that you did this Q & A!! I was sick and didn't start my seeds indoors, and thought I missed my chance. I was very sad about this. I love your knowledge, thank you for sharing it 😊, Audri

Thanks for touching on the hardening off process. I tried to kill my sweet little veggie plants with too much sun and heat. I got to excited with high 60’s in western WA for a couple of days. Need to slow my roll.😆

Wow!!! Such valuable info in one video!! Thanks Erin!!

"Don't kill em with kindness!" Sadly, I've done that in the past - too much water. Learned my lesson :) Many thanks for all the wonderful videos! Inspiring, encouraging and so informative!! Sending 💗~~~ to the farm from here in Michigan - where things are finally waking up!! 🌱

This is very helpful. Thank you

What a great video. Simple but well explained. Love it.

I always had problems with Poppies. I'm in a 4b so it does get pretty cold. The last few years I've been wintersowing them in milk jugs and it works great. I have probably 30 Iceland poppies germinated in one container right now. I just have to carefully separate them. It's a no fail way for home gardeners.

I just started my dahlias (Bee's Choice and Petite Florets) and Zinnias (Alpen Glow and Precious Metals) yesterday. *SO EXCITED* 😂

Do sugar ants eat seedling leaves? Something in my greenhouse is, I sprayed with organic pyrethian(spelling?) and put out cotton balls with cinnamon oil on them. Lol any ideas? Always a pleasure to watch your videos 😊

So helpful thank you. 💕

Thank you for all the information.

When I bump them up to a larger pot, do I use container soil or seed starter soil?

Thanks a lot for all the info!! Love your work❤!! I want to know how you manage to protect them, once they are out at the field, from pests. Could you give some basics ? (Sorry for my english)

Thank you for the great video! I’m just wondering if I can still plant my leggy seedlings? I think I saw somewhere that you could plant them so that a lot of the leggy stem is in the soil? Is that true? Or how would you plant them?

At some point you showed the difference in seedlings from amended vs non-amended seed starting mix, but at the time you didn’t mention what was added to the amended seed mix. Was it ever explained, have I missed it? I run into the same problem every year with stunted seedlings especially Orach which back in Europe I grew no problem, essentially as a weed and it’s just maddening that now all I get are stunted seedlings.

Thanks so much for this. Question about watering….what do you think about trays with water wicking mats?

What if you only have a window to grow with, the laggy stem, will it still grow a nice plant once planted in my raised garden.

I haven’t figured out how to use my greenhouse for seed starting- either too hot or too cold.

Thank you ,just wondering when you pot up your seedlings do switch to potting soil rather than the seed starting soil ?

I tried growing Delphinium with the winter sowing method twice but no success! Any tips or tricks you can share for growing delphinium from seeds? Thanks!

Thank you for the video! I was surprised that you still have to harden off the plants even from the propagation house. Could you explain more about this? I would have thought the greenhouse has enough light that seedlings are ready in that sense. Do you use fans for circulation in the propagation house? The constant shifting of the seeds indoors and out is a process I'm trying to avoid/minimize when growing on a large scale.

Do you use the same fertilize for all your plants

Please advise what to do about Earwigs !! I think we might have a surplus in my garden!

I am having trouble growing bacopa and angelonia inside. They came pelleted and some pellets seem to have more than one seed in them. Is that possible? And any suggestions on the seeds? Did they need to be statified?

Hi, can you please talk about the pests that can effect zinnia, dahlia and celosia and how you treat them at floret, i have been suffering with tunnel makers, thrips and something that's eating the leaves!!

What size trays are you using for sweet peas? Thanks so much!

My geraniums got to a certain size, then just stopped growing ! 🤔 Not a size that they were too big for the cell, they were well within the cells perimeter , just stopped growing . And they’ve been that size for awhile, what am I doing wrong ?🧐 Thank you for your time !❤️

All of my zinnias and some dahlias are drying out super fast.. should they be off the heating Matt already?

On my Snapdragons, oh no, I think I cut back to true leaves. Darn will the be OK? I think I should have waited for another set of leaves.

fertilizing seedlings?

Do the Rolly Polly bugs harm seedlings or plants?