As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
For all the worry and concern over building my seed sprouter out of an old microwave oven, it only proves the always experts have shit for brains and God's Inspiration prevails.
I'm not going to repeat the building process, but this is an assessment of what this works like and it works wonderfully, using a lizard heat pad which is set on the lowest setting. I get around 82 to 87 degrees in this sprouter. The colder in winter and spring wind storms, and the higher when the sun is shining into the porch.
It might be a little drier than it should as sometimes seed hulls stick to the leaves and I have to help them off, but in most cases seeds are firing out of the soil. The soil I use is standard potting soil which is mostly sphagnum moss, wetted by soaking and then a layer over top the seeds, pressed down until I feel the dampness.
This has worked with peat pots and regular plastic pots.
When I use the term fired, I have had melon seeds sprouting in 3 days. Most seeds sprout in 5 days. This is a remarkable birthing chamber.
I never have used the fan, but that was more for an incubator anyway and is on a separate switch.
I'm typing this in the middle of May. I got delayed in too much chit going on, and HAARP storms that kept it winter into Spring which sucked. What I have now sprouting and it is slower are heirloom bell peppers. This has taken a week to get one seedling going on day 7 and I see 3 more are germinating on day 8. Peppers require higher heat, but I did not up the temp. I did have to water the peat pot again. Plastic probably would have helped, but this sprouter apparently will bring the dead back to life, in some very dry old seeds that would never have sprouted any other way.
TL had me get a green light. I love it now that I have it, as it is very Christmas pretty. The drawback is, and I will work on this for next year, is if plants sprout, they will get too leggy if I leave them in overnight, as they need light. I'm going to have to build a grow frame with more intense light, LED will work fine in this, to make the seedlings behave as I want to get this going so I will be sprouting seeds in February of 2025 AD in the year of our Lord, to really get things going.
I have not had the time or weather to build my light bulb dimmer sprouter to trial that, but these lizard pads are like 13 bucks, I have a wire rack on top and bottom to keep air circulating and the plants or wet off the pad. I could not be more pleased with this set up, as a low setting and I'm getting perfect sprouting temperatures. It makes on feel invincible by the Grace of God.
I think I will invest in another lizard pad as a back up, but people seem confused when they are told about this seed sprouter as I think the microwave part scares them, like electricity and this is some kind of magic fire that Tonto does not want in his tipi. I love this sprouter though as I struggled for years to get things to germinate and this is fun as you actually seem to just put the seeds in, and by God's blessing they are up that quick.
As a finish, we had collected last fall a pile of wild asparagus seeds, which dried in an open plastic bag. I shelled the seeds out, they look black, but am going to see about sprouting almost 100 of these as asparagus seeds do sprout easily. If they are viable, I will put them into cells, nurture them and then get them planted in midsummer and in 2 years will have piles of asparagus.
That is what is nice about this as garden plants are like 3.50 a piece now and with this sprouter I can get more than I want with just a few seeds, making all of this food growing most affordable. Am going to see if I can get rhubarb to sprout from seed as that would delight me.
This sprouter though is a remarkable solution to getting thing to germinate.
Nuff Said
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