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This is an excellent find! I'm in AZ and starting seedlings out side seems to be a big challenge. They burn up as soon as the pop, so shade growing it shall be. Thank you for your awesome video 🌱🌞
Great subject, have yet to come across anyone talking about this. Thank you for this awesome video, very concise, informative, and timely. Looking forward to future videos from you.
Hi Jared, great video. When you state the ages of your seedlings are these the time since the seeds were sown or since the seedlings germinated and were first visible? Thanks!
I have said light quality is the most important to a lot of people advocating for fans or other alterations for strong seedlings. However, are you using a grow light to supplement or are you reliant on sunlight? I know natural light is typically best but I am guessing in your short season climate that you don't get enough of it early in the season for seed starting. Is that right? I grow all year round in my greenhouse and I need to start adding supplemental lighting in December.
That was just a folded piece of corrugated plastic that I cut to that shape. Anything stiff and smooth should work pretty well for you. There are more complicated seed dispensers out there, but the ones I've tried are slower and less effective than this method.
Hi I just came across your channel! I bought a few green and red pepper plants from a store. They looked healthy and still do after transplanting them but they haven’t grown much at all. They all have tiny little peppers. You said it’s not really good when that happens. Should I pluck them off to encourage growing ?
Yes, it is. It's all about the relation between light, temperature and also moistur of the soil and the air. The temperature depends on the plant you want to grow. For cucumbers its about 20°C. Peppers like it a lot warmer, about 25°C to 28°C.
Yes. Temperature is especially importance during the germination period. After the young plants have emerged, room temperature is adequate for most crops, but they will all appreciate some time to adapt to the wider range of outdoor temperatures they will experience out in the field. Our nursery greenhouse helps with this because the temperature there varies more than our indoor seed starting shelves. In general, our cool season transplants will gradually experience lows down to 5ºC and highs up to 25ºC while warm season transplants will experience lows down to 10ºC and highs up to 30ºC.
