NO Heat Mats and FASTER Germination
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- #germinatingseeds #seedstarting #savemoney Heat Mats consume energy and lead to higher energy costs. Peppers, tomatoes, and other plants require extra warmth to germinate. A trip to the dollar store can help you sprout tomatoes in as little as 3 days and peppers in as little as a 5! This is my favorite seed starting hack!
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Thanks! You are a breath of fresh air young man!😊
Thanks so much!
You're my favorite gardener youtuber that doesn't wear yoga pants.
Thanks! I won't be wearing yoga pants anytime soon😂
Hey there, fellow Michigander!
Loving your videos! Simple and effective ways to do things without a degree in chemistry or shelling out your life savings! Perfect.
Keep up the amazing work. 👍
Thanks for the kind words!
I wish I seen your video before I bought my heat mats. You're a gem, thank you for the video!
The domes trap moisture to help germination too. Most fail because the soil gets dry. This creates heat and humidity. A fantastic environment for germination. I'm almost at 100% germination with 2 and 3 year old seeds. Everyone is always trying to sell an unnecessary product to make growing more expensive! Good luck this year
I bought the pans and VOILA! The best seed germination I've had in years! I also used a soldering iron to make mini air pots out of solo cups by making MANY small holes in the bottom and bottom half of the cups...everything air-pruned perfectly :)
Awesome! I starting cutting the corners off the bottoms of the cups with scissors. Saw it in a James Prigioni video. I used to do side holes as well for air pruning. Keeps the roots healthy.
Thank you! I unsubbed from one guy bc I was tired of him trying to sell cheap
Chinese heat mats. 😂 I’ve never used them and grow tons of things from seed. He posts about them several times a week. Clearly isn’t hurting for $. But it just stings knowing how many ppl are not doing well financially.
We use mostly the gallon jug greenhouse method and I put Mylar down around the peppers/tomatoes inside.
Your tomatoes are doing so well!
I use gallon jugs too! Like winter sowing, but inside. I start whole seed packets of chives that way. Heat mats are already dangerous so I wouldn't be looking for cheap. I'd be looking for a UL label above all. Heating elements of any kind stress wiring. Makes me nervous because I've responded to a lot of accidents involving heaters.
@@FastGardeningMichigan the gallons from the dollar store can fit back together in a way I didn’t use tape this year! I was so thrilled to do it that way instead of using duct tape. But thank you for your content and input as an electrician.
FGM over here pushing aluminum pans!!! Seriously, I subscribed because of your approach to gardening and that you weren’t pushing products.
I've been trying to do stuff not using the products you "have to use" and doing things in ways that "don't work" and so far everything works better. We're all hung up on conventional methods and it stops us from being innovative. These pans are more than for germination. They're useful the whole time and for the price can't beat it! They sell seed trays that are the same design for more money. If someone offers a product that I feel is useful and worth the price I'd for sure share it but until then I ignore many emails a day.
Love your videos. I'll grab some cooking pans this week. I hate the fleecing of gardeners.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Thank you for this video! I like your methods & ethics!❤❤❤
Thanks for watching. I love this method so much and want others to try it out.
I've been gardening for many years - this is my first year starting seeds and following your method. I'm super excited! Love your channel! Pepper, eggplant, and tomato seeds sprouted about a week ago. Question: should I leave the humidity dome on or take it off? So far, I've kept it on. It's been almost a week. Some of the tomato sprouts are looking brown...
Ill leave it on for a few days after sprouting just so any that haven't sprouted have a chance, then it comes off. I do pop it off daily to release some trapped moisture
@@FastGardeningMichigan Thanks so much for all of your help!
I love this channel... just sayin'😀
Thanks!
Thank you for this SO very much! I've been overwhelmed with everyone saying you need to buy things to plant seeds! I want to SAVE money by gardening, not spend more! Thanks again!!!!
That's why we grow our own! The less electricity we use and the less products we buy keeps our cost down. Never used a heat mat or fan. I brush and blow on my seedlings to strengthen them. That along with the light very close keeps them short and stocky until I want them to grow more. At the point now where the only money spent is starting seeds indoors. Free resources to feed the soil.
I have a soil blocker in the mail to save money -- it's great to see it in your set up. Great way to be thrifty with the dollar store pans, thanks!
Soil blocks are awesome! Many plants can be grown in blocks until time to put outside
Your plants are beautiful
Thanks!
I’ve used those metal pans to germinate my seeds for quite a few years. Now I will say that this year I did invest in one large heat mat (holds 4 10x20s), mainly because I wanted to see if the heat would speed up germination, since our Michigan house is very cool…and I wanted to use some larger 10x20s that I had acquired for free…so far I have germinated only flower seeds, but I am seeing faster germination on some varieties. But those foil pans are definitely the way to go if you’re on a very tight budget!
Works for everything and keeps the soil moist! Even better it perfectly fits my soil blocks so I can just pour water into the pan to soak them.
Retired electrician here. I hate heat mats! I'm also retired from my local volunteer fire department. I hate heat mats!
See where I went with this?
Right there with you! Devices that intentionally stress circuits to produce heat. They don't just usually stop working, they go out in a blaze of glory!
Those tomatoes that you have growing up for the garden memorial day weekend?
No. These are going to grow inside. I won't start my outside tomatoes until May 1st. I created some hybrids last year so I want to see what they produce and I have some orange hat tomatoes that only grow a foot high. Last year I wrote down the exact amount of days it takes everything I grow from sow to transplant so I know exactly when to start. I found out adding chicken compost to my mix gave me transplantable tomatoes 26 days from sow which is far faster than the 6-8 weeks. 2 foot tall transplants were not fun to keep inside😂
just stuffed a bunch of aluminum foil under my parsley seeds, good timing lol
Clear gallon jugs work good for herbs. Parsley is my favorite
Just found you. Great video
Awesome! Thanks!
where can i buy cooking pans
Dollar store, Aldi, or any grocery type store!
Dollar store, Aldi, or any grocery type store!
hello i just discovered your video
here i am trying to figure out starting some seeds that i just got gifted i am in zone 7b what should i do once the peppers germinate how big should i let them get before potting them
As soon as my peppers show signs of true leaves I pot them up to their final resting place before transplant. Since I use soil blocks I can actually do it any time but didn't see any benefit of doing so. I started peppers mid April and they're already ready to go outside. With this method, and using fertile soil to start I expect my peppers to be ready sow to transplant in less than 30 days vs. the 8-10 weeks most go by
And keep them dry! Peppers like dry soil. I don't water until the plants start wilting. And use rain water. I truly believe rain water is the key to healthy plants and fast growth.
@@FastGardeningMichigan thank you my temps are ranging 60-80 should i just put my cake pan outside in the sun to germinate. as i live in a basement apartment so we dont have many warm places in here
@@dougsmith5309 maybe keep them in a cooking pan with clear lid or plastic tote outside and bring them in at night. Trap that heat. 60s will bring the temps down and increase germination time.
Hey, how is it being an electrician? Do you dig it? I've been itching to get into the trades, and I think electrician, plumbing, and carpenter would be pretty sweet. What do you think?
I'm a 4th generation electrician with the IBEW. It's a good gig. I make enough that my wife can be home with the kids and we have great pensions and healthcare
@@FastGardeningMichigan Dang dude, that is the dream. So with the IBEW, do you do work for a company or do you do independent work. Or does the union tell you what work you're doing?
@@EpsteinIsSeaEyeAyy company. The contractors are IBEW contractors
@@FastGardeningMichigan Nice dude that's sweet. While that sounds like a good deal with the pension and benefits and all, I'd love to be able to go solo and even take my kids to work with me and stuff. Not sure how practical that would be, but what do you think about that?
@@EpsteinIsSeaEyeAyy the union jobs have better pay and benefits. Healthcare is the biggest. And you have jobs offered vs finding on your own.
Cheaper is always great, especially when it works. Always appreciate your videos.
I'm working on a video combining all the ways to save. We are working to get costs down as low as possible so home produce is not only healthier than the store, but cheaper
@@FastGardeningMichigan awesome! Looking forward to that video!
How many kelvin are the lamps?
If I remember correctly 6500K
Thank you very much for this info. I've used heat mats and was shocked at the electrical cost - was not aware of the potential fire hazard. I'm hoping to find the same baking pans here in Canada.
Dollar stores should have them!
Thanks again for the potentially life saving info@@FastGardeningMichigan
..lol..absolutely no change to our electric bill using heat mats! And they are not a fire hazard unless they are very old and the wiring is bad. Smh