Fresh seeds, dried for months, now brought back to life with an overnight soaking.
Using old supermarket meat trays, carefully spacing the seeds on damp kitchen paper. If they are bunched together, the roots bind and are hard to separate.
77 seeds in each tray.
Another layer of damp kitchen paper and they are ready to go.
I've read conflicting views about dark vs. light for germination so I thought I would try for myself. I clamped the trays together to reduce evaporation and put them on the window sill. Green gingers crossed!
As it is January, a heat mat provides a constant warm temperature.
These new starter trays look promising.
Tools supplied.
Very tidy.
And built-in LED grow lights, with a timer!
Light for 12 hours per day and heat 24/7.
Taps Aff!
Looking good!
A little too much heat has resulted in dried soil and dead seedlings!
Luckily I had some fresh habs to take some new seeds from.
Straight into the soil with these as the cases should already be soft. This has slowed the process but there should be plenty of time for them to develop.
As good as the LEDs are, you can't beat real sunlight!
Coming on strong.
A bit slower than usual but racing along now that spring is here.
Time to replant a few into a bigger pot. Not quite warm enough for outdoors at night yet though.
Into the big pots for bigger roots.
Looking healthy.
Three in a pot should be fine.
