Rapid Rooters for seeds

TrimothyLeary

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Hi everyone, I like using Rapid Rooters for my Cannabis seed, I just have great success with them.

Now that plants are the most interesting thing in the world to me, I'm starting a bunch of plants outside this summer. Tomatoes, peppers, melon, pumpkin, strawberry, echinicea, milkweed. Bunch of flowers.

I'll have two Frisian Duck out there too. Functional Ornamental Cannabis, haha. Surrounded by lavender.

Anyway, I've already seeded the rapid rooters for most of those plants, but I'm now wondering if that was a mistake, and I should have started them some other way. The tomatoes make sense in the rooters, but, I kinda felt silly pouring strawberry seed into that little hole.

Anyone with experience using some kind of starter plugs for their non-cannabis gardens? Rapid Rooters in particular, but any experience is helpful. Looking for advice.

I know I can simplify this, but I want to grow at least a few of these plants in the best possible conditions I can manage, and figured germination was a good place to start.

Thanks!
 

Chunky Stool

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I use starter trays for small seeds then cull the weaklings & transfer to something larger.
This tray has two kinds of tomatoes & a shitload of snapdragon:
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TrimothyLeary

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Looks like snapdragons have tiny seeds too. So, how do you sow such small seeds, and how many seeds do you put in each cube?

Tomatoes I did 2 seeds per cube, which seems to work well. I pull the slower one.

Thanks for the feedback! Love the plant love.
 

Chunky Stool

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I just sprinkled the snapdragons. Tomatoes weren't counted exactly... whatever stuck to my fingertip.
This is the first time I've done it with coco. Seems to be working just fine. You want something that holds a lot of water and crumbles easily.
 

TrimothyLeary

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Alrighty, well I guess I'll just have to see if the smaller seeds do okay in the rooters, and just get some more going in regular soil just in case they fail. Can't be killing by daughters strawberries. That's supposed to be her job.

Thanks man. I think I may just go buy a good gardening book for normal crops. Any you can recommend?
 
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