You can really expand your food choices when you get to pick exactly what you grow.Īnother great reason to start your own seeds is to make sure you’re growing the right kind of plant for your needs. Think about how much you can choose when you start from seed: flavor, varieties, and the stories behind different heirlooms. Don’t leave it up to what’s available at the garden center. If you love your edibles, decide what you want to eat and which varieties you want. And what a rewarding feeling it is to start your plants from seed, and enjoy the journey of bringing them from seed to plate. In our world of instant gratification, what’s better than starting your gardening season way sooner than most gardeners?! When you start seeds indoors, you get your hands in the dirt and get a jump on the growing season. īefore we dive into the how of seed starting, let’s understand the why. This blog is inspired by Episode 114 of Bloom and Grow Radio –where host Maria Failla interviewed Joe Lamp’l–the Joe behind The joe gardener Show. Starting edible plants from seed can be intimidating, but we’re here to break it down and answer all your burning questions. but anything clear that you can set over the plant can be a dome.Seed starting is upon us in the gardening world! There is no better way to connect with the food we eat than by growing it ourselves. Cloning is about the only thing I am just good at when it comes to growing this weed.I can always clone them, and I never kill them, I just like ICU injur them from time to time.Anyway I feel like everything else is hit or miss, but cloning I have down.then again some people have pretty clones.how? I don't know.īut to answer your actual question.I have used just about everything.when cloning in dirt I put a ziploc baggie over the top of the cup and the clone within, an upside down drinking glass, bottle halves, and my best one yet.I made a cloner, I used to do hydro and I would just clip off a branch and stick it in another net pot in the same bucket with the plant it came off of and that always worked 100%, but then I switched to soil and it came time to clone.so I cut off a branch dipped it in rootone and stuck it in a dixie cup and put a baggie on it.almost always worked 89% or so.makes for some serious ugly clones.but the plants turn out alright.anyway seems like it just takes way way way longer in the soil.so I got a bucket from when I was doing DWC, and a water pump, used some PVC and put in some water sprayer things.drilled holes in the bucket and grabbed some neoprene collars.anyway put some cuttings in there.and they all wilted over.and I was like WHAT?! never had that happen and this way is supposed to make the healthiest fastest clones.?! Anyway, I took a kinda largish plastic bag that something for my recent upgrade to the tents came in, and I rolled it up a few times and put it on top of the bucket like a hat.just kinda loose.and in a few hours I took it off and all the clones were doing great and standing up and they have been ever since.a few started looking a little off and I checked and yep-they're getting roots. I wish I had taken a pic of what the clone itself looked was maybe 2 inches tall, with bits of leaf left that were smaller than my thumb.if seedling grew fan leaves right out of the gate it would have looked like a fat ugly seedling, and now she is beautiful.Īnyway do not worry at all.as far as my "research" shows this is normal and part of the process. Now these 2 are the best.those weird yellow speck things are all that is left of what this clone used to be.3 weeks ago I was about to just kill it because the top of it had already withered away, and all it had left were 2 half fan leaves that looked totally dead except right by the stem it was still green so I left it and the next morning it was growing a top from each side.and then it just started growing like crazy.3 weeks.for real. This is a clone taken in flower, so excuse all the weirdo looking green leaves, do notice the weirdo yellowed leaves now covered by new growth. In the below pics we have a clone that is growing looks like hell but in a few weeks it will be a whole awesome looking plant.so who cares?. Think back on the cotyledons when the seed first sprouts.those are just food stores until the plant has grown enough roots, and leaves to survive without them and they turn all yellow and weird, but the rest of the plant looks great.well the oldest leaves on the clone become the cotyledons.actually when your clone turns yellow like that it is what lets me know it is getting roots.Since I was cloning in just FFOF.my normal soil.good rates, sad looking clones.
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