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22 Comments
Plastic chicken roaster container after done eating all the chicken, a good way to recycle used containers for seed starting
Pros and cons of soil blocking please
Which do you like? Shallow or Deep?
I say just start seed planting! I dislike this stuff…just plant a seed for God's sake, take care of it, and enjoy your fruits if labor. I love Luke, I'm subscribed and I order from him. But starting out, let's not turn off people. I use them and anything else I can find to plant seeds, and I don't have problems.
I grow mostly peppers so I prefer the deep trays. Way more sturdy, especially once they are in 3.5" pots, the area underneath staying moist is very important as I always have roots hanging out by the time transplant time comes. I upgraded all my trays/pots to bootstrap farmer last year and super happy with them, strong enough that my son can help me carrying stuff out come hardening off time.
This is probably wrong but ive done it for a few seasons now no problem i just fill the bottom with a few inches of water and leave the water until its gone then refill never have dumped out the remaining
I bought the Burpee trays after using those black junk trays. Burpee's are super heavy duty, they're deep and plant removal is really easy. This isn't a commercial I'm just super pleased with them.
Good pros and cons. As a small gardener I have to take my seedlings from the basement to upstairs to outside to harden off. So the deep trays work much better. I just have to be patient when watering.
It’s gonna be my first year starting everything from seed, I got the seed trays from Epic Gardner, the quality is amazingly sturdy but the cells are about the size of a quarter or a large thumb.
Video on seed starting medium? Make your own? I do.
I prefer deep trays, I'm the one always trying to carry stuff with just one hand 😂 I don't know how many pots I've dropped due to flimsy trays… 🫣😂
I hadn't thought about the trays beyond their stability & the ability to hold water. My best location for starting seed is on an upper floor with a double wide south facing window; keeping the area clean & the floors free from water dirt etc is priority, so I go with the deeper flats. Except for the tomatoes I've no problems with carrying the normal trays through the house to the garden when the time comes.
The tomatoes are the exception as I like to use the red party cups with holes cut in the bottoms – throw an inch or soil moist potting mix in to start, about five to six weeks later when the tops are usually about four to six inches above the rim I'll attempt to carefully fill the cups to the rim with more moist potting mix as the root development is very vigorous at that point. The plant will sky rocket as I anxiously await my area's last frost date, ~May 5th. The trick I use to carry them to the garden is a tall cardboard box that only fits about nine cups.
I use deep trays to bottom water, but I transfer the cells to a shallow tray if I have excess water since tipping the tray usually causes issues for me, like stem breakage or a cell falls out, so I move them first and then return them to the deeper trays. Yes, it's time consumming when you have 20 full trays, but I enjoy it. 😊
Can you do a video on starting onions from seed and when to take the cover off? Do you remove the dome or plastic once you see the first germination or wait? Also it would be great to have the series continue so we grow, trim, fertilize, plant, water, and know when amd what to use to fertilize once planted to get large onions.
I have never been successful growing large onions, they are small/medium and I would like to learn how step-by-step, if possible.
Love the bootstrap stuff! The air pruning 4 cells are killer. Like the shallow trays except the deep ones are easier to move while full
Great work Luke! This is a must watch for new gardners.
What kind of potting mix do you use?
My reason for liking deep trays is because my starts don't topple out of the tray when I almost trip over my cat while taking my seedlings outside. Happens every time 😆
Great Video! Wonderful Ideas.
interested in the Geothermal Citrus greenhouse you mentiined in Missouri… please do add a link so we can check it out.
Im’a deep trayer
Thank you for the pro & con video
Learn the weight of dry cells compared to wet cells
This is the best way to tell when to water
Smaller seeding flats like 120 or 240’s will not seat properly in deep flats