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- From: BillOhio <billohio AT gmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] starting pepper plants
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:00:20 -0400
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 helpsCharles 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 OhioOn 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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- Re: [Market-farming] Potting up Pepper Starts, BillOhio, 05/07/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Planting out Plugs, Liz, 05/07/2009
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- Re: [Market-farming] Planting out Plugs, BillOhio, 05/07/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Planting out Plugs, Allan Balliett, 05/07/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] starting pepper plants, BillOhio, 05/07/2009
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