How to grow petunias from seed teaching a first time grower
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2023
- We're in the greenhouse sowing petunia seeds and I'm teaching Kate who has never sown any seeds before, ever. So come join us for a super chill grow along with Eli and Kate
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Let Kate know that it’s a completely normal side effect of seed starting to have an uncontrollable urge to do a victory dance when the seedlings pop up😂. Great timing, I’m going to be starting Petunias for the first time in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the helpful instructions!
I’ll let her know 😂😂😂
Fantastic! I love it! You helped not only Kate but many other new gardeners with great instruction.
If she gets the bug, I may be fighting her off form my greenhouse though :D
fantastic to see Kate sowing for first time,
I think I have her hooked 😂
Kate Eli is showing off! I love it.
Kate, you will be so excited when the germinate!
Oh she is…. I’m gonna be super excited to 😂😂😂
Relationship goals! what is that old saying? You reap what you sow 😹😻❤
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I absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much. As a beginner myself it was so encouraging, kind and gentle. Please do more as a double act and get Kate a microphone because you are both wonderful.
I will try my best but she's not a fan of being in front of the camera :D
I really like these gals. It's good to see Kate joining in on all the fun. I think they'd be fun to have as friends.
It was great to have her join in 😁
Finally!! Lol I think u feel the way I felt! U r in good hands, I didn’t have anyone to teach me. Then I found your channel!!
She’s hooked now
It’s good to see Kate helping you with your seeds. ❤
It’s was fab having her with me… awesome to have a gardening buddy 😍
That was the best! I love how you have Kate sow the tiniest seeds. I'm looking forward to updates and hopefully seeing Kate in more videos.
Ha ha ha the way I see it… everything else will be easy now
Just catching up, been away for a few days in the Cotswolds. So nice to see Kate in the greenhouse with you and I'm just about to sow my petunias so thankyou for the tips as always!
Welcome back!
We went to the Cotswolds for our honeymoon :D
Love watching you two together, you're so fun! Thanks for the beginner how to!
Glad to help 😍
So cute, the two of you together!
IDK about petunias here in Florida, but I am gonna run out and broadcast some wildflower seeds! That way, even if weeds come up, I can celebrate; ignorance is bliss.
Ha ha ha good plan
No wonder I couldn't get petunias to start, covered them and put paper towels on top. 🤦♀️
Those seeds almost need a microscope to find.
You two are great fun, so respectful of each other, even when you tease. 🇨🇦 Might try petunias next year, doing edible flowers this one. Nasturtiums, Calendula and Anise Hyssop.
Now to see if you can prick those tiny ones out. 🤞
Oh no!!!
Ok next year…. Join in with us and we’ll keep you right
Really enjoyed that, girls. You two make a great team 👍💮👍💮👍
Even better now the apprentice is trained up 😂😂😂😂
Thank you Kate for the muffin tray trick!!❤
It’s quite a good one
Thanks for the video. I had picked up a few packs of petunias from a 4/$1 rack. I didnt know they needed light, but I have grown celery and it also needs light to germinate. I have large hands, but I dont fear small things. I am a retired watchmaker. I read someplace, forget where, a good reason to not fear starting seeds. They start in nature, without any help.
Exactly
The only difference is that we go out of our way to try and make things perfect , in nature… what happens, happens 😍
Growing petunias is very satisfying. The tiniest of seed and they quickly turnout to be very vigorous and a very netted root system.
I grew Wave petunias this year. I got only 15 pelleted seeds. I take a toothpick and wet the end to pick each seed up. Dome them with no vent and place on heat mat with light.
I recently ordered those white rimmed petunias you showed and excited to hear you loved them!
If you ever grow non stop begonias I will tell you a tip that I searched relentlessly for and that is they need warmth to grow after they germinated. I tried to figure it out and watched a guy in the UK that grows them and finally figured it out that the only thing I didn’t have compared to his greenhouse was heat. Bingo the next day I could see them growing and the color was greener. Up to this point they would not grow. I had a fan on all the seedlings and made it worse so I domed them loosely and put them on the top rack indoors.
Oh we grew non stop begonias for many years 😍
@@eliandkate I was asking around about why they weren’t growing and apparently I never asked you. Oh well, figured it out finally.
Fab video 👍
Off to the shop tomorrow to get some petunia seeds and will be following along with growing these.
Always happy to have an excuse to go and buy more seeds 😋
Wooohooo I wanna see hanging baskets at the plot 😍
Eli and Kate make the best videos ever!! keep up the good work!!
😂😂😂 glad you are enjoying our garden fun
Lovely!!!
That was fantastic, looking forward to seeing, you both in the garden soon. Thanks for sharing.
The way it’s going, it won’t be long 😍
Well done Kate, your enjoying I can tell 👏
Eli well done too your so good at taking us through and explaining so effortlessly 👏
I must confess, might be the most fun I've had out there in years 😂
It was Great to see Kate more in the midst of the garden viedos
I think secretly she enjoyed it too 😂
Go Kate, go Kate! Loved this video you guys ❤. Eli, that was mean making Kate start with those teeny tiny seeds 😂. I tipped a packet of tiny viola seeds all over my kitchen floor today....😢. Good luck Kate
Noooooo not on the floor 😭😭😭
This is fantastic! I love seeing you two natterin as you go along. I love the petunias you chose - teensy weensy seeds! 💗
Teeny tiny 😂
I so feel for Kate, and admire her for taking on that challenge, especially with the YT camera going! Last year was my first year for sowing seeds. Didn't realize how tiny they were until I opened some of the packages. Didn't know about broadcasting then so I did a dumb and hope method. Our packs here don't have those seeds tubes in them, just loose seeds. I will join Kate in her happy seedling dance and congratulate her in sowing seeds.
Oh I can’t imagine how difficult that would have been to try to get them all out the packet 😮
I am seriously enjoying this tea-fuelled educational double act.
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So glad to hear it Rich
We had so much fun making it - there were heaps of technical issues (not least the camera facing Kate - which I forgot to switch on) but it was worth it for all the fun of a new growing buddy
@@eliandkate The fun makes it all worthwhile. As Dr Johnson famously said, "When a man is tired with technical issues, he is tired with life."
This was so fun to watch!
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Enjoyed the video. Just sowed some petunias into module trays for the first time, 32 cell tray, myself. The tiny seeds were disconcerting though as you aren’t sure exactly where they’ve gone!
I know…. There’s a lot of hope in that cell tray 😍
That was brilliant. Thank you both for a fun and informative video. Lovely to see you both working together in the greenhouse xx
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Just what a newbie like me needed ... Great to see you & Kate working together ... such great fun 😊😊😊🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷
So have you sowed… that’s the question
@In the Garden with Eli and Kate Yessss ... Ive spent a good few hours sowing this weekend ...
My Peppers ( again )
Lettuce
Salad leaves
2 x tomatoes
Marigolds
Geranium
Courgettes
These are all indoors on window sills ...
We'll see what happens ...fingers crossed 😊😊😊😊🤞🤞🤞
Woooooooo that’s heaps 😍😍😍
@@eliandkate I know 🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈💓
Love it!!
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If you just need a little amount of petunias you can use a wet wooden toothpick to pick the seeds up. Works also for carrots if you do something like square foot gardening...
I'm a little late but I'm already entertained and I didnt even get through the prevideo commercials 😂
What on earth was on the adverts that was so entertaining?
The ones I get are usually for funeral planning???
@@eliandkate nothing good 😂🤣😂. It was just the thumbnail and video excitement pulling me through the h*** that is adverts. Acknowledging of course you all get $ off of them so they are just a mandatory evil I reckon.
Yeah not even a choice anymore, youtube even put them in the videos from the little channels now who don’t get get compensated from it at all. It used to be you had a choice.
Although to be fair, I’ll moan about them…. But I won’t pay for youtube premium so clearly they are not as annoying as I’m making out 😂😂😂😂
Great video as usual! I did not know petunia seeds were so small. I always buy them at the nursery as a plant. However, I am growing milkweed from seed. They do very well here in Florida and we always have lots of butterflies in the summer. You two are great together! Thanks for your knowledge and as usual your fantastic humor!
They are crazy small… but so worth it 😁😁😁
Awe, I loved this! Great choice on starting with the tiny seeds, any other seeds Kate chooses to sow wont feel so small and scary. Petunias were the second thing I ever tried to grow. Tomatoes were first and i remember thinking at the time how small the tomato seeds felt and being worried and frustrated over getting them in the right place. I also remember opening the petunias and thinking the seeds had gotten crushed they were so small. Lol
We did a lot more seeds on the day which I'm sure you guys will get to see, but yeah, as they gradually got bigger, her confidence grew so much.Kate is now a proper grower :D
Absolutely brilliant!! 🥰
Was great fun 😂
@@eliandkate and so did I it’s great seeing you and Kate on screen x
Woweeee Kate.. and Eli ...good job.. tinityni seeds.. like thyme. The 3 or 4 plants of petunias that I need, I am getting at my farmers market. It would be way to much otherwise. Have a great week.. see you. 🌻🙂
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Yay!!! I could watch this over and over. I love seeing people who have never done this before. :D For slightly wet hands in between sowing sets, I use paper towels to dry. It doesn't leave fibers and I always know that my hands will get to the right "dryness" no matter whether I'm sowing little seeds or big. (For YEARS I wiped my hands on my pants.) The paper towels easily dry out for more uses or they can be used to wipe up after all is said and done.
I gave her a cloth to wipe her hands and she used her trousers!!! 😂😂😂
Great video, very informative, thank you. Always love the banter between you both. ❤ Can't wait to see your results of who has the best germination 🙌
oh you absolutely know it'll be Kate 😂
Love it ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Yey so happy I found ur channel 😊...
I'm so glad!
Great videos
Glad you like them!
Glad Kate was there to stop you when you were moving the wrong tray to the shelf. 😅
I know…. It could have been another disaster 😂😂😂
"Monty has different size tampers....." - Eli 2023
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I loved this video! SOOOO much! I love the relaxed humour and vibe you and Kate have. And I must sow more petunias. My last attempt...didn't go so well.
I can give you another really useful tip btw: "Don't sow your petunias with a 2 year old!"
.........."Involve your kids in gardening," they said. "It's good for them to get hands-on," they said.
#argh
Btw, what's the function of the Red Dwarf set-piece you've got behind the propegator in the greenhouse?
ha ha ha no two year olds, noted!!
The red dwarf piece is just some tinfoil to help with the light.
The greenhouse backs onto a fence so there is no light from that side and the plants are leaning forward a little bit.
I'm just trying to help refract the light a little to stop that
I’d like to c how she cleans up after you make a mess?!! As all gardeners do
Usually with a few bad words 😍😍😍
Great to see you both, but what is that thing you call sunbeam? Perhaps Inverness will get one in June 😂 xxx
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Could you put a tiny bit of water in those little seed holders to get the last one or two stubborn ones out? (I've never come across those, but if I do it might be handy to know).
I'm attempting to grow kiwi fruit from seed at the moment (long germination time)... and that whole "when that first one germinates, it's so exciting"... yep... I think I have three that have broken the surface now... I just have to keep them going, we'll see how that goes ;)
Lovely to watch you both together :)
You possibly could actually… that would probably work.
It’s just static that holds them there.
Hmmmmmm🤔
You two are so good. Thanks for the lesson. My wife is even becoming interested - sorted. Question please- where could I source the seed trays and lids you’ve used
Regards, Mark
Hmmm most of the seed trays I have are actually on Amazon, have nosey in the About tab on our RUclips channel or the description of the video and there’s a link to a webpage with links to all that type of stuff.
@@eliandkate Very kind !
See if you still think that after you’ve gone down a rabbit hole of shopping online and spent a fortune 😂😂😂
Do green seed trays have holes in the bottom?
Yep the ones we sowed into, those are half sized seed flats, they all have drainage holes
The trays you see me put things into on the shelves etc, no those are just trays to keep things neat and tidy
I saw somewhere that an ounce of petunia seeds cost more than an ounce of gold. No wonder given that they are so tiny.
Jeesh that’s mad
What do you do if you get a little mold on the seedlings?
On the seedlings, to be honest they are probably goners 😭😭😭
@@eliandkate The mold is not on the seedlings, but on the potting mix around the seedlings. Does that still mean they are goners?
No promises Leslie
But, you could try scraping that top layer off
Problem is that you are over watering so you need to be extra careful with watering and ventilation
No promises but you might be able to hold it back until you can pot on
@@eliandkate thank you for your help! Enjoy your day.
One of you guys work in pharma?
Nope
You are always sewing a lot of seeds does that mean they only last a year or do you just have a lot of plants in your garden
We have a lot of flowers in our garden but yeah most of these are annuals for us so we resow every year
The absolute worst are thyme seeds for me! I just buy a hanging basket and divide it up!
Petunia seeds are the worst. So small
Ha ha ha that’s a bit harsh
What’s wrong with small???
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Watching this vid was just joyful entertainment. There you two were, the blind leading the blind cuz nobody can actually see those tiny speck (almost imaginary) seeds. Too small to even feel them or where you put them. I'm a more informed soon-to-be petunia seeder.
Ha ha ha it’s way worse than you think Squadio, we both have seriously bad eyesight these days so it was a major struggle 😂😂😂