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Thank you! I am starting my indoor planting today using your seeds and supplies. This video is perfect timing! I am new to starting my garden early by planting seeds indoors. I always buy my plants and transplant them. If all goes well, I will be saving tons of money. Thank you so much for inspiring me to expand my knowledge.
Start seedlings? It is -20C (=-4F) today. Spring is very far…
Good video, but the intensity of the light falls off by the inverse square law.
So if you start at 4 inches you get
1/4 the light at 8"
1/9 at 12"
1/16 at 16"
1/25 at 20"
etc.
First time customer, long time subscriber! Just received my package of 20 plus packs of seeds. So excited!
Good examples are given.
Most everything was spot on. However, your light frequency AKA color temp explanation needs work. You were describing the amplitude or intensity of a wave not the frequency. f=1/t
It’s all about the light footprint
Enjoy the snow! Calendula will make tons of seeds and will reseed. The camomile will reseed too. They will batch sow themselves next year. 😊
To any that don't know it. When you order seed from his site…the chat isn't AI. It's a real person. So please be patient. I just tried ordering seed from him (My boyfriend made an order, he thought went through "that didn't") The customer service was as quick as can be expected in a small business doing many things at once. A real person responded not a chatbot. Was very polite and professional (even though my boyfriend wasn't very nice) Boyfriend did apologize to him later. Again, please be patient he will get back to you as quickly as possible.
Great science lessons. Easy to follow. 👏👏
Luke. Do you ever think you will have grow light available in your shop?
Luke, if you have a $4 budget for your garden you can not afford any of these lights. Your channel is for rich people. I am unsubscribing.
I invested in a light meter. It helps so much! Great explanation of light intensity and type. I know most of this because I have been gardening for over 45 years. I still learn from you !
Does the wattage matter?
Even experienced, large volume growers uses standard shop lights. Why r we confusing newbies unnecessarily? I easily spent 10 times what I needed to when starting out by listening to this type of advice. DON'T BE A CYNTHIA! 😂 Go to Lowes! Lol
Great information on lighting-learned a lot! Received an order today-did not disappoint. Starting my cool weather seeds soon in zone 8A. Thanks for all you do for home gardeners like me.
I anna say depending on the type of seed you are doing indoors the light might have to also give off heat like a heat lamp even if you are not starting in winter before the last frost as some things just love more heat. Potato plants are a good example since they are more of a summer crop they love heat so a thing that gives off both light to grow and heat would be perfect, well normally they like temps between 68°F and 77°F for optimal growth however if it has not sprouted much then 45°F-86°F is great to make the greens sprout up like crazy so it can start photosynthesizing and then making the tubers. So for a potato you kinda need a balance between temps if you wanna harvest the tubers and not berries, but even then a potato is kinda similar to starting peppers and other crops for summer harvest a few weeks before the last frost so about 4-6 for potatoes while for peppers usually 12-8 depending on the pepper as Carolina Reapers are notorious for refusing to germinate even if the seeds are fresh so it takes longer
Like i have germinated a Chinese Giant which requires the same amount of time and temps that a Carolina Reaper does yet i still have problems with the reaper as it refuses to germinate as they can take up to actually 4-8 weeks to germinate if you are unlucky. So knowing what you are starting really helps to mitigate a lot of these challenges for seed starting, and just for fun i bought a dragon fruit from the store took some seeds and all the seeds i took germinated well before the reaper and i never germinated dragon fruit before so i guess i am stuck with growing dragon fruit seedlings for the next 7 years
Though if i could ask you any 1 question it would be, can i soak the seeds of slow germinators like the reaper in some tea to help them germinate faster? Like i have plenty of chamomile leaves as i like drinking it and brewing tea from actual leaves instead of those tea bags you can get at the store as it taste different like better, also my sister won't stop giving me random things such as pathos plants and random small cacti as you can stick them anywhere and they just do fine to random seed pods of flowers she grew, and this time it was marigolds and she said and i quote "This one should be a good companion plant to the onion you are trying to make bolt"
Though the Yellow Bulb onion that is refusing to bolt i buried a dragon fruit peel in the same pot it is in and now it won't stop sprouting leaves like crazy so i have to prune it every few days now as apparently dragon fruit peels like the outside skin have a lot of nitrogen in em…whoops
More awesome information. Happy birthday!
Kelvin isn't a measurement of the color of the light given off, but the temperature of the light source, it's used in astronomy in the classification of stars like the Sun which is a Yellow Dwarf Star ranging from 5300-6000 Kelvin, in contrast with a hypothetical* Blue Star at >30000 Kelvin.
*The Universe is too young for any Blue Stars to have actually formed at this point and their existence is based purely on scientific theory.
Excellent info! For those of us that don't have full spectrum grow lights for starting seeds, I can recommend LED shop lights that are rated at at least 2000 Lumens for a 2' fixture double tube or a 4' fixture 4300 Lumen double tube. Mine are both rated at 5000K (Kelvins). I have two 4' shop lights for starting seeds. Plenty of room for a small garden. I find that for my 4' LED shop lights a distance of 4" from the veggie seedlings does just fine. But I would suggest starting at a higher distance (6") when using a LED just to make sure that plants don't burn. LED shop lights have improved immensely in the past 10 years and are so much better than fluorescent shop lights we all used in the past.
And please let newbies know that no matter what you read about putting seedlings in a sunny window just doesn't work for veggies. Destined to fail with floppy seedlings!
We couldn't go to our place on the Gulf (7" of snow this week!) so I stayed home and worked on my seeds. Thanks for selling a quality product at a super price (free ad – lol). So far, I have planted at least 1,000 seeds / 30 kinds and now my top two floors are bursting with seedlings in shelving next to the large glass windows. I've been a follower since you were a kid in highschool but only found out about your site a couple years ago. Germination is near100% and I've wondered if the seeds were pre-soaked. I do nothing special – start with the 72 count trays, seed soil from HD, place on heating mat, cover, wait a few days and instant seedlings. A couple of weeks later I transfer to bigger pots (potting soil) and repeat. Stay warm.