Bluesunshine
Well-Known Member
So it was almost midnight on the 31st of December and somehow the planets had not aligned in the last few months to spur me into starting some seeds and a whole new year was about to begin.
I had to start the new year off afresh and get some seeds going. Anyway the moment was almost upon me so I rushed to the cupboard and got to plates soaked a bit of tissue in carbon filtered water and through a complicated system of mathematics eventually managed to decided the correct number of seeds was 8,,, I might be completely wrong on the number but it seemed correct at the time.
Then to only decision was finding a place of safety to keep them,, which turned out to be a little corner cabinet that belonged to my grandfather it is so high up it almost touches the ceiling and is protected by a stone gargoyle,, perfect!
I looked at them excitedly the next morning,, I was not surprised to find:
1 that they were still there
2 they looked just like they did when I put them there 10 hours before.
So I kept the tissue moist for a few day and eventually had a root out of the 8 seeds.
I wanted to start washing out buckets filling them with soil and putting them in but having read a few grow journals the condenses seemed to be tiny pot spoonful of fine soil and a spray bottle of water.
I went round to the local garden center and got the smallest available pots. There just happens to be a huge bag of Peat Moss lying unopened in the garden and a bag of worm-cast in my kitchen,, don't ask me why a bag of worm-cast has been living in my kitchen for a few weeks,, it seemed the right place to put it when I brought it in and it's still there.
I wasn't sure if I should put some into the peat-moss pondered about it for a while and thought "Oh go on and after careful consideration chucked about 20% on top of a bucket of peat-moss and mixed it through filled the little pots and got the seedlings in and at a bright window.
The next day we had seed leaves so I got them into a big plastic box with a 2 ft square 40w 4000k LED ceiling panel plonked on top the type that goes on a suspended ceiling in an office.
I was afraid of the LED light somehow being to strong for seedlings so I kept it about 12 inches from the seedlings.
In 24 hours they looked rather lanky, so I decided to leave them for another day.
By this morning they were decidedly leggy.
I had to start the new year off afresh and get some seeds going. Anyway the moment was almost upon me so I rushed to the cupboard and got to plates soaked a bit of tissue in carbon filtered water and through a complicated system of mathematics eventually managed to decided the correct number of seeds was 8,,, I might be completely wrong on the number but it seemed correct at the time.
Then to only decision was finding a place of safety to keep them,, which turned out to be a little corner cabinet that belonged to my grandfather it is so high up it almost touches the ceiling and is protected by a stone gargoyle,, perfect!
I looked at them excitedly the next morning,, I was not surprised to find:
1 that they were still there
2 they looked just like they did when I put them there 10 hours before.
So I kept the tissue moist for a few day and eventually had a root out of the 8 seeds.
I wanted to start washing out buckets filling them with soil and putting them in but having read a few grow journals the condenses seemed to be tiny pot spoonful of fine soil and a spray bottle of water.
I went round to the local garden center and got the smallest available pots. There just happens to be a huge bag of Peat Moss lying unopened in the garden and a bag of worm-cast in my kitchen,, don't ask me why a bag of worm-cast has been living in my kitchen for a few weeks,, it seemed the right place to put it when I brought it in and it's still there.
I wasn't sure if I should put some into the peat-moss pondered about it for a while and thought "Oh go on and after careful consideration chucked about 20% on top of a bucket of peat-moss and mixed it through filled the little pots and got the seedlings in and at a bright window.
The next day we had seed leaves so I got them into a big plastic box with a 2 ft square 40w 4000k LED ceiling panel plonked on top the type that goes on a suspended ceiling in an office.
I was afraid of the LED light somehow being to strong for seedlings so I kept it about 12 inches from the seedlings.
In 24 hours they looked rather lanky, so I decided to leave them for another day.
By this morning they were decidedly leggy.