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Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 17 update: Seedlings were all looking pretty happy today, though it’s been a little colder the past few days, so they aren’t “praying” as much as they were last round when it was still warmer outside. Soil was definitely starting to dry out on a bunch of...

Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 14 update: Seedlings still looking happy and healthy (other than a single leaf on one of the Soak to Soil group) so I decided to remove the dome completely today. Expecting that a bunch more may want some water when I check them tomorrow, but at this...

Nice! Blumats rock! Your plants are gonna love you for installing those! ❤️

Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 11 update: Started seeing a little deformation on a couple of the leaves today, which IME is the result of too low of RH (or at least too rapid of a change), so gave the ones that looked like their soil was a little drier some more water and left the vents...

Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 9 update: Seedlings are all looking happy and healthy. Gave them some water yesterday as I could see that the soil was staring to dry out a bit. Also have been slowly opening the vents in the dome to start to harden them off.

Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 7 update (end of Week 1): Not too much has changed since yesterday. The Soak to Soil group is still firmly in the lead with all 10 seedlings up and growing well. The Paper Towel group is still in 2nd with 9 out of 10 seedlings up and growing well. The...

Seed Sprouting experiment Round 2 Day 6 update: The Soak to Soil group is still firmly in the lead with all 10 seedling up and having shed or at least partially shed their seed shells. But, the Straight to Soil group had a couple casualties; 2 seedlings came up but were unable to shed their...

Day 5 update: Looks like the Soak to Soil group has taken the lead! All 10 seedlings are up and have fully or partially shed their seed shells. The Straight to Soil group and Paper Towel Group are currently tied for 2nd place with the former having all 10 seeds up, but 2 of them appear to be...

Day 4 update: As predicted, based on last Round’s results, today saw the beginnings of life in the tray. So far the Straight to Soil group is in the lead with 10 out of 10 seeds up or at least starting to poke through the surface, the Soak to Soil is in 2nd place with 9 out of 10 seeds up, and...

Day 3 update: All 10 of the seeds in the Paper Towel group popped tails (some longer than others; cue Braveheart joke) and while they weren’t all 1/4” long or longer, several were and had even started to grow into the towel. So, I decided to plant them all into 50/50 mix rather than waiting...

Few updates to post so will make these in the timelines they occurred. Day 2 update: All 10 of the Soak to Soil group sunk as did all 10 of the Paper Towel group. So, planted the Soak to Soil group into 50/50 mix and put the Paper Towel group into moistened Paper Towel, which then got put...

Round 2 is underway! Last round saw the 50/50 mix come away as the pretty clear winner (even with my operator error it was clear that the Compost would require more upkeep), so that is what I’m going to be using this round. But, this round is going to compare 3 different germination methods...

Looking good! Can’t wait to see how they turn out! :cool::blsmoke:

Seed Sprouting experiment Final update: Today was Day 25 since these seeds went into soil (no soaking) and I decided that I had collected enough data from this little experiment to call it a rap. So I decided to transplant a few more seedlings and also snap some pics of the root systems of the...

Day 21 update: Decided to transplant a seedling from the 50/50 group and also one from the straight Compost group. Neither rootball was as solid as I would have preferred, but the straight Compost one was the slightly more solid of the two. The taproots were pretty long though, so thinking...

Day 18 update: Starting to see some signs in the leaves that suggests some of these girls need to be transplanted, so gonna transplant a few of the biggest ones tomorrow and take a look at the roots.

Day 14 update: The seedlings are looking happy and healthy today, but decided to leave the vents as they are for one more day. Tomorrow I’ll open them a little further and less them acclimate to that. Looking like the 50/50 mix is still likely to be the winner of this round by the looks of things.

Day 10 update: Surprisingly, the M3 wound up catching the 50/50 mix in terms of germination rate (one of the 50/50 mix seedlings didn’t wind up making it and the same thing happened on the M3 side). But, the 50/50 mix seedlings look to be the happier and healthier group, so I’d still say that...

Day 7 of the Seed Sprouting experiment update: Looks like the 50/50 mix has no intention of giving up the top spot in this race! All 10 (actually all 11 as I planted an extra seed in the leftover mix I had in a solo cup) seeds popped. Both the M3 and Compost only have 9 out of 10 seeds up...

24 hours after the last update, the M3 has made a huge comeback and now the 50/50 mix has actually taken the lead! And I’m a surprise turn of events the Compost is now in last place! To be fair to the Compost though, when I opened up the dome today it was noticeably dry. Being my first time...