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9 BIG MISTAKES Made When Starting Seeds Indoors



In this video, I share 9 big mistakes made when starting seeds indoors. Seed starting indoors is a great way to save money and add variety to your garden, but even experienced gardeners can make mistakes that can cost you your seedlings. These seed starting tips will have you starting transplants from seed like a pro by avoiding these common seed starting mistakes!

Related Videos:
How To Start Seeds Indoors: https://youtu.be/cHO23cPR-ZA?si=CtRQZSRz38S51RxW
Where To Buy Seeds: https://youtu.be/7y3hPQr7Nek?si=oPOLupDnX74TCDCt
How To Make Seed Starting Mix: https://youtu.be/jbsIHN3Zb0w?si=5iQJsMVLXYyOOpLY
How To Make Bulk Potting Mix: https://youtu.be/t3kx5PhCJU8?si=tjzc8d5IKqzgY_Lx
How To Build A Grow Light Stand: https://youtu.be/h1rrHl8oSJY?si=Y7nCZytkyUaiAzp8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Seed Starting Mistake #1
2:08 When To Start Seeds For Warm Season Crops
3:08 Seed Starting Mistake #2
4:38 Timing Transplants In HOT Summer Climates
6:35 Seed Starting Mistake #3
8:52 Seed Starting Mistake #4
11:05 Seed Starting Mistake #5
12:08 Grow Light Schedule
14:22 Seed Starting Mistake #6
17:19 Seed Starting Mistake #7
19:59 How To Fertilize Seedling Transplants
21:36 Seed Starting Mistake #8
22:44 Seed Starting Mistake #9
23:44 How To Harden Off Seedlings To Sunlight
26:15 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to start seeds indoors, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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23 Comments

  1. @TheMillennialGardener

    If you found this video helpful, please LIKE it and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 🙂TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
    0:00 Introduction
    0:36 Seed Starting Mistake #1
    2:08 When To Start Seeds For Warm Season Crops
    3:08 Seed Starting Mistake #2
    4:38 Timing Transplants In HOT Summer Climates
    6:35 Seed Starting Mistake #3
    8:52 Seed Starting Mistake #4
    11:05 Seed Starting Mistake #5
    12:08 Grow Light Schedule
    14:22 Seed Starting Mistake #6
    17:19 Seed Starting Mistake #7
    19:59 How To Fertilize Seedling Transplants
    21:36 Seed Starting Mistake #8
    22:44 Seed Starting Mistake #9
    23:44 How To Harden Off Seedlings To Sunlight
    26:15 Adventures With Dale

  3. @user-iv5ji4dg7e

    literally in the middle of watching this, happy bc im on the right track ( 4 week old tomato & pepper seedlings ) but paused the video to look over at my two dogs going to town digging. They ate all of them. I had kept them on the floor like you have with a grow light. Call me dramatic but i’ve been crying. I am so angry !

  4. @sandreawhite7534

    Great video. We live in Bradenton, FL. We don’t worry about frost here. It’s the summer heat. I start my garden around the end of August with seeds, seedlings and direct sow. It’s been productive for 9 years. Apart from growing for food, I get the most satisfaction from the entire growing process. Babying each seed or seedlings. Watching the plants progress, the vegetables that we always share with neighbors or friends. In the end enjoying a satisfying meal of God’s wonderful bounty……sometimes it’s hard to eat your young…….

  5. @61mab

    Wow what a link list! I made my own pads from spooled heat strips many years ago that I wired with clip's and taped. I ferment my own Natto using a controller with a dial needing to be around 100F in the oven so setting temp digitally would same a lot of bother in the 24hrs needed. Put it in my shopping list when I have $ 🙂 Thanks

  6. @PureBlooded

    Just cause the big stores use non organic why would you push that? that's why I start mine and NOT buy them from stores. Health 1st

  11. @growagarden54

    I don't germinate my seeds inside my home where it's heated. I grow them in our unheater workshop. Should I leave the germinated seedlings on a heat mat and grow lights?

  15. @taililly2483

    ❓️I have a 3×4 little inexpensive plastic greenhouse with a zip opening. Would it be okay to start seeds in Peat pellets outdoors in this where they are exposed to sun & wind? Do you think the seeds would germinate & the seedlings grow okay. This way I don't have to move trays in & out if they were started indoors. Im in zone 8A. Morning temp ranges from 50s to 60s & day high low 70s to mid 80s. Thxs

  18. @funsized924

    Thank you SO much for all your information you provide. You are by far my favorite gardening channel on YouTube! You provide so much amazing information that just makes sense! I live in Illinois growing zone 5a but your information is so applicable to my climate because we have extremely hot humid summers, often getting into the 90s by June and having several days in the 100s every year. Yet with all that humidity most of our days are very sunny and the sun just beats down so intensely. Im so excited to put your suggestions into practice this year! ❤

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