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hi everyone welcome back to my channel my name is Allison and on this channel I talk about um things such as my candle business or things that are happening around in my life whether it’s on the farm gardening or just um trips that me we might take um such such things like that today we’re going to be talking about um planting up seedlings to grow flowers later in the season so I’ve purchased a lot of flowers that I’ve never grown before here um so we’re going to go through those and we’re going to plant those up to grow inside until they’re ready to go out and be planted outside so follow along with me and let’s see what we have so here are the seeds that I have purchased ahead of time um so let’s walk through what I have um and then can go from there so Johnny Seed is a new company that I’ve never purchased from before until this year um they have a lot of good information on their seed packets which is one of the things that I like um you can see here they have a lot of information about how long it takes the seats to germinate what type of light requirements what temperature they need to germinate uh all of that sort of information um so the different uh flowers that I have are um so the first one is Lizzie anthus um Snap Dragons I have grown Snap Dragons before and I love them um so I got a new a variety that I’ve never tried before I have saloia which I have grown this before as well these I just get it like Walmart or wherever um the next one is azer Adam tall blue planet then I have status Johnny’s pastel mix I have stock cat’s formula mix then I have two different kinds of straw flow so this one is silver rose and I also have bright Rose then the last one from Johnny that I ordered is pen cushion flower and then also some other ones from Walmart all of the the other ones I just mentioned are all listed as annuals these three are listed as perennial so they should come back year after year so I have Hol Hawk Indian Spring Mix I have carnations I’ve never pled Carnation before so this will be a new Venture for me and English daisies double mix colors the seeds are pretty small and they’re in a a tube these are pelleted seeds you can see they’re very little I’m not sure that’s zooming in very well um so we these are what we’re going to plant first and I’ll probably plant two in each cell so to start getting our soil ready what we’re going to do is we’re going to use seed starting seed starting soil mix um and that’s important when you’re doing seeds so we’re going to take this and actually I have a bag that’s already open we’re going to pour it in this tray that I have I’ll just use what I have in this bag first and then we need to mix that with some water I’ve got some water down down here so we’ll just pour some water in here we’re going to get in here and mix this up it’s very light and fluffy so it’ll take quite a bit of water and we want to get it to where it is um moist and holds a form but is not dripping dripping wet and this is so dry it’s um my water is at the bottom so I need some [Music] more I need to find me a better seed starting um tray where I can mix up a bigger a bigger batch of this something for me to get in the future everything that I’ve learned um from gardening over the last several years I’ve learned from another um YouTuber that I watch all the time um it’s Garden answer um they’re based in Oregon um I love that channel it’s been so helpful for me in learning um about different Garden things um so if you’re ever interested check that channel out um all right so my soil I think looks pretty good now I can um make a fist of it and it sticks together but it’s not like dripping sing wet all right so what I’m going to do now is take my trays and I have these these trays here I’m not sure if you can see that very well move my soil out of the way for a second here’s my trays um I purchased these from Gardener Supply um online they have the tray they have the bottom that they sit in they also have a clear Dome so that when you’re first starting your seeds they can um keep that humidity um while they’re trying to germinate and and start to grow so what we’ll do to begin with is we’re going to take our um soil and I don’t have the best setup here just trying to figure this out um I’m just going to put my soil in here and probably make a big old mess while I’m doing it but that’s okay you don’t want to pack it down in there super tight I’m here in the basement so I can make make a mess and be able to clean it up easier all right I am going to tap it down a little bit get a little bit more soil in the ones that needed to be tapped down all right so now I’m going to take my seeds these are the lizan seeds and I’m going to put um this is is a 24 cell tray so I’m going to put two seeds per cell and um that way if something doesn’t germinate I’ll have um hopefully another one that does come up in its spot and if I have um all of them germinate to in a Cell then I can um transplant um I can separate them once they get up and put them in bigger containers and or I can just them out um these need light to germinate so they say not to be covered with soil um I am going to cover them when I’m done with with vermiculite that helps with um any kind of algae or anything that wants to try to grow on it um so I’m just going to take these they’re super small I’m not sure if you guys can can see those um and I’m just going to hopefully get to in each so might have lost one there these are super tiny so this is really hard three in that one and I’m trying to space them apart but it’s not working the greatest because they are super tiny but we’ll do our best and again this is a flower that I have never grown before so we will see how it does I am not sure if I got one in that cell so hopefully these these germinate well I’m really looking forward to having trying some new flowers in my garden this year all right I think I had definitely more than said there were 50 a minimum of 50 and I’ve put two in each sale and I have have extra so I’m just going to um usually because these are pelleted um because they’re so small they will not last very well the germination rate will not be um great if I were to save them for next year so I’m just going to go ahead and put extras in all the sale that way if um something doesn’t come up maybe I can just thin them and and have more um all right so that is all of my litha seeds um so like I said the next thing I’m going to do is put vermiculite on the top I have that up here all right so this is my vermiculite and what I’m going to do here is just lightly sprinkle that on the top so that it still gets light and can germinate but it helps retain the moisture and helps keep the seeds from um moving around when I do start watering it and helps with any kind of algae or other kind of growth that might happen right so that is my vericite now so I’ve got my SE tray um lid so we will put that over top of it um the last thing that I need to do is make a label so I’m going to move this out of the way and I’ve got these labels here plant um labels that you can right on with sharpies they will um fade as you put them out you know once you plant your flower out side and it gets rained on and things like that the writing will fade but for now this will help me know what I have planted in my tray so I’m just going to write the name on here and I will stick that in my tray um so the other thing we’ll want to do is water this in even though I pretty much moistened the soil I do want to do a light layer of um watering it in and so let me go grab what I need for that and I’ll come back and and show you what I’m going to do there okay so for right now I just have this bottle with some water in it and it will do um a light mist spray so I’m going to just do that on the top of here and this is how I’ll Water um the trays as well uh for the first till I start getting some seedlings coming up and then once they start coming up then these trays are um called self-watering so they have a platform with a self- wicking mat that will Wick up the bottom and the plants can get water from the bottom uh I can show you that at a later time all right so we’ll put our lid back on there and and now we’re going to go put it under our grow lights so so for my next two flats that I’m going to be doing I’m going to be doing my Snap Dragons and I’m going to be doing my saloia and so I’m going to go ahead and make the tags for those Snap Dragons and sosia so I’ve got my two tags um here is the setup that I think that I’m going to do for these I know this is hard to see um but I have 30 seeds in my snap dragons so I have these trays that I have kept from other things that I have purchased um I think impatients were in here from some previous year um so I’m going to put I’ve got enough to have 30 CS for my Snap Dragons and then I think I’m going to do eight um of the sosia and I have these little bitty trays and I’m going to put them all together in this let me see if I can show in this um one tray here so I have underneath here I have this um tray that they all come in to hold them and then I have this pan that can catch the water um if any drips out so I think that’s what I’m going to do with this and then um they can all fit in here pretty good to go under my grow lights and then I will them with this Dome here and so I think I can make that work and then I’ll figure out something for this side to cover Thea so um next we’ll work on getting the I’m sorry about my hand was in the way there um next we’ll work on getting the soil in here so we can plant the seeds all right so I’m going to go ahead and take my uh labels stick them in here for the things that I’m doing my sosian Snap Dragons All right so we’re going to do the Snap Dragons first and like I said there’s supposed to be [Music] 30 um seeds and these are in a small these are super super small so they’re in this packet here within the packet and you can see just how small these seeds are that’ll Focus maybe not super super tiny so we’re going to try to be careful and get all of our seeds you can see just how tiny those are go with that and I’ll leave this one out so I’ve got them in these 24 hopefully oh there’s a couple more seeds so I’ll just put those in there hopefully we will have good luck with that all right so now let me turn this around so hopefully you can see the sosia better all right so we’re going to plant these These are pretty tiny seeds as well so I have quite a bit of these so I think I will try to get to in each cell might end up with three but we can always thin them out as they grow up and these are not pelleted so I can try to save some for if I want to um start some more seeds a little later or save them for next year I’m gonna I’m going to do a little more than two just just because all right and so I have quite a bit left over of these I will just save them all right so then let’s do our vermiculite again I layer on all of this let’s get our tray I’m going to move these a little closer so maybe I can use the same tray we’ll see how that works all right so let’s go put these under the grow light thanks for coming along with me today and um following with me while we’re doing some seat starting um keep checking back uh for progress on how the seats are doing I will uh be showing those in future videos and please um follow along with me on future videos or ones I have done in the past I can grow a lot of things around this Farm um but I can’t grow this channel without your help so please feel free to subscribe and that helps my channel grow just a little note if you’re not familiar with YouTube to subscribe is totally free so just click the button um it should be linked in here uh to subscribe it like I said it’s totally free um um what it does is it just brings my video on your channel so when you come on YouTube to view you’ll my channel will pop up for you to view future videos doesn’t 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