Using living soil. What media to start seedlings

jack06041989

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I am going to switch to using living soil. Using 60 litre rectangle beds, growing two in each one. My questions is what shoukd i start off the seedlings in? The beds are going to stay in the flower room so I need to veg them in 7.5 litre containers before I transplant them into the beds. Surely living soil is too hot for seedlings ? Shoukd i veg them in light soil? Or coco maybe? Anyone with any experience could point me in right direction thanks
 

T macc

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I would use a 4 inch pot with coco mixed in like Drysift said, if your concerned. That way you can utilize the good soil in veg after 1st transplant ~2 weeks after sprout

What's in your soil mix? If there's nothing "hot" in there, feel free to plant your seed. I plant seeds in no-till (except this round).
 

jack06041989

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I would use a 4 inch pot with coco mixed in like Drysift said, if your concerned. That way you can utilize the good soil in veg after 1st transplant ~2 weeks after sprout

What's in your soil mix? If there's nothing "hot" in there, feel free to plant your seed. I plant seeds in no-till (except this round).
It’s called eco thrive there’s supposed to be everything needed for a full cycle there’s tonnes of stuff in it. Is dry sift like dry nutrients mixed up?

I think you might be right, the soil I’m vegging in needs to be as similar to the living soil as possible as it’s going to take up 14 litres of a 60 litr bed

so maybe il sprout them in some light soil in tiny seedling pots then il juts transplant into the 7.5 litre pots I may do 12 litre Actually, of the Living soil. I want them to do all their vegging in these pots I want them To get fairly big. Then transplant into the 60 litre beds to flower a week after transplant
 

T macc

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I checked their website, I think you'd be fine to plant straight to soil. I would email them to ask if its safe for seedlings, tomato seedlings, of course. The small pots with a lighter soil is always a safe bet, tho. How long are you vegging for?

As for drysift, I was referring to the person above my post. But dry sift is a way to make hash
 

jack06041989

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I checked their website, I think you'd be fine to plant straight to soil. I would email them to ask if its safe for seedlings, tomato seedlings, of course. The small pots with a lighter soil is always a safe bet, tho. How long are you vegging for?

As for drysift, I was referring to the person above my post. But dry sift is a way to make hash
Yea tomatoes loool well I wanna grow them pretty big during veg so quite a while like 2-3ft wide and 2-3ft tall so would need big enough pots f
 

SBNDB

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Jiffy seed starting mix can be found at any lowes, home depot it’s pretty much a blank slate.won’t burn.Add some perlite
 
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