[Market-farming] starting pepper plants

BillOhio billohio at gmail.com
Thu May 7 09:00:20 EDT 2009


Thanks, Charles, I wasn't sure if I had too much or too little heat. I
rigged a germination chamber 2x2x4' with 2" styrofoam and was using a
200-watt halogen light with a thermostat as a heat source. Pretty crude, but
it did successfully germinate several thousand seeds other than those 2
trays. Downside was that I had to pull the flats out when germination
started or the early sprouts would get spindly. I'll add fluorescent
lighting next season and figure out a way to get the heat underneath the
flats. Overall, for $30 and a plug-in thermostat I already had, it worked
well enough.

Thanks again,
Bill Huhman

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM, <deberryemail-website at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  If the seeds on the outside of the heat mat came up and the middle did
> not  it sounds like maybe you have to much heat.  I used to teach highschool
> agscience and once saw a highschool greenhouse where only the seeds in the
> trays that were near the edge or actually off the heat mat would germinate.
> Students did not use the thermostatic controller and the heat was to high.
> I have also seen the middle of trays stay to wet if  the table or bench
> under the mat is not level and water ponds on the mat.
>
> Not sure if that helps
>
> Charles DeBerry
>
>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* BillOhio <billohio at gmail.com>
> *To:* Market Farming <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 7, 2009 5:31:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Market-farming] starting pepper plants
>
>
> I had a couple of plug flats that only germinated in the outside rows all
> around the flats, with several varieties in each flat. Other flats came up
> close to 100% at the same time. Looks to me like it had to be a case of
> either more heat or less moisture in the outside 2-3 rows of cells, but I'm
> still scratching my head a bit about the whole thing.
>
> Bill Huhman
> central Ohio
>
>    On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Marcy <mlynn at pcisys.net> wrote:
>
>>  I second all the advice about bottom heat and patience, but all the time
>> and temps aside, I did have one flat last year that was a total failure –
>> Red Knight, a bell. Same soil, same day as all the others and not a single
>> one germinated.
>>
>> This year it’s the Mosco hot chili that’s making me antsy and taking
>> forever.  3 out of 72 and I think  that’s all that are coming.  The Fresno,
>> Anaheim and Jalapenos are all coming great guns!
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcy
>>
>> SE Colo
>>
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