Hardening seeding temperatures
Donald V Zone 6 north Ohio
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Comments (3)The site you found (clickable link below) is excellent. I use it as a source of info for starting seeds indoors. By using optimum temperatures germination can be very quick, two or three days in some cases. I think you are wise to not rush planting seeds outdoors, except the ones, such as peas and spinach, which like lower temperatures. Jim Here is a link that might be useful: Germination Temperatures...See MoreTemperature Range for Hardening Off
Comments (3)Hi Flora_uk, thanks for your reply. Sorry I haven't been checking because the temperature have been cold anyway.... I have some marigolds, celosia, and salvia. According to the seed packet, I can start them outside now (since we have past our last frost date). Does that mean I can harden my seedlings off now? Or could it mean that I don't have to worry about hardening off and can move them outside directly since there won't be any frost anymore? The weather forecast says for the next 10 days, the minimum is 41....See Morehardening seeds off in your car
Comments (17)Jay, I love, love, love my screened-in porch. When I was a very young child and my grandparents lived on a ranch in Wise County, Texas, west of Krum, they had a screened-in porch on the east side of the house. It is their little country house, with its screened-in porch, big barn, white picket fence, and windmnill that I carry around in my brain as the ultimate wonderful old country place. I was 6 or 7 when they sold it and moved to town. Our first house, in Fort Worth, had a screened-in porch on the north side of it and I loved it, although it didn't get as much light as I would have liked due to the surrounding mature trees. When we moved here, a screened-in porch was high on my list of 'improvements' for our just-built house. I liked the back deck just fine, but it faced west and got really hot so I knew it was just a matter of time before we enclosed it, roofed it and screened it in. Our first year here, 1999, we built the chicken coop and fenced-in chicken run and the garden. The second year, 2000, we put in the tornado shelter instead of doing the screened-in porch because the 1999 OKC-Moore area tornadoes were fresh on our minds. In 2001, we enlarged the deck, added half-walls and a roof and used window screening for the rest of it and then I had my screened=in porch. Since then, it has been a project a year. This year's project is the potting shed with a new garden on the west-side for our granddaughter and a new garden on the east-side for me. My screened-in porch is always the first stop for plants coming out from the plant shelf to outdoors. I'll leave them there for a week where they get indirect bright light and some filtered wind, and then I'll move them outdoors for their daily dose of sun/wind. The tomatoes are fully hardened off and ready to plant. The peppers came out to the screened in porch about March 28th or 29th, so they are just beginning the hardening off process. I cannot live without my screened-in porch. It is almost as handy as having a greenhouse. I still have a cold frame on my 'to do' list, but we didn't get to it last fall or this winter/spring. The potting shed has been on my list since we moved here, and would have been done sooner if it weren't for the repeated bad winter fire seasons that have taken all our spare time during the gardening 'off-season' since 2005. This winter and spring has been our quietest winter fire season in years (knock on wood) so we've actually gotten some of the things on the To Do list started...though not yet finished. I wasn't crazy about spending all that money on a storm shelter in 2000 but knew it was the smart thing to do in terms of safety for our family. However, since I began using it as a root cellar, I now find myself delighted to have it! Dawn...See MoreGrow Lights, Soil Temperature and Seed Heads
Comments (8)Ottawapepper, i am certainly not an expert but I can give some input. The temp can be controlled on your heat mats by a seperate thermostat i have two waterbed heaters on a White Rodgers remote bulb thermostat model # 1687-9 that is hardwired from the breaker box then from the thermostat it is wired to a recepticle which I have the heaters plugged into then I put the remote bulb in the cell trays thru the top of the dome. It is set to turn on when the temp falls to 80 deg. and turn off if the temp gets around 87 to 89 deg.The thermostat justs cuts the power to the recepticle when it hits the preset temps. This method is working without any problems and the temps are right on the money. You definetly need to control the temp from what i've read here I think 125deg will kill off the seeds. i keep my temps closer to 90 deg. with great results. as far as the lighting is concerned i am just using the 8.00 fluorescent fixtures from home depot and the cheapest bulbs they have and again am having great results so far. My seedlings are kept as close as possible to the lights as I can get them As far as the seed husk problem I to am having this happen alot If you check out my thread on Naga Cotyledons you can see how i handled that. I also put the fan on the seedlings for about 4 hrs a day. This is my first time starting plants from seeds and I have gotten all my info from the experts on this forum and other forums on GW. Hope this helps. Dale...See Morebeesneeds
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