Been having trouble sprouting seeds

sandman83

sandman83

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Tangerine_ said:
I'm LOLing at some of the comments. Not in a snickering way, just giggling because some of y'all would freeze in my house.

And the woodstoves going out? Well get up and sling some wood in it or at least turn your damper down. :-P
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I'm quite comfortable at 68f year round =), family disagrees and we bring it up a tad.
 
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spek9

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Tangerine_ said:
I'm LOLing at some of the comments. Not in a snickering way, just giggling because some of y'all would freeze in my house.

And the woodstoves going out? Well get up and sling some wood in it or at least turn your damper down. :-P
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Last year, I lived way up north, very close to Alaska, extremely little population. My only source of heat was wood. A wood burning furnace in the basement, a wood stove in the kitchen, and a fireplace in the living room.

I had several cabins and outbuildings as well, all with wood-only.

Nothing like getting up at 3 AM to re-stock wood when it's -35 degrees outside. The house cools off very, very quickly when the fire starts cooling off.

One hand, I really miss it, but on the other, I kind of don't :)

Will be doing it again though, just regrouping for a year as I was forced out due to forest fires late last year.
 
GreenHighlander

GreenHighlander

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Tangerine_ said:
I'm LOLing at some of the comments. Not in a snickering way, just giggling because some of y'all would freeze in my house.

And the woodstoves going out? Well get up and sling some wood in it or at least turn your damper down. :-P
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As someone who heats exclusively with wood I also have chuckled.
I fill my stove before I go to bed and shut it in. It is always still warm inside when I wake up and just throw some wood on the bed of coals.
I also live in an almost 200 year old house that is far from heat efficient.
As for seeds and growing in general KISS

Cheers :)
 
Tangerine_

Tangerine_

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spek9 said:
Last year, I lived way up north, very close to Alaska, extremely little population. My only source of heat was wood. A wood burning furnace in the basement, a wood stove in the kitchen, and a fireplace in the living room.

I had several cabins and outbuildings as well, all with wood-only.

Nothing like getting up at 3 AM to re-stock wood when it's -35 degrees outside. The house cools off very, very quickly when the fire starts cooling off.

One hand, I really miss it, but on the other, I kind of don't :)

Will be doing it again though, just regrouping for a year as we were forced out due to forest fires late last year.
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Well they say wood heat warms ya twice but I don't know about running outside in sub degree weather. That doesn't fun, at all.

Though I do enjoy harvesting it. Its an effective workout and stacking cords entertains my OCD, ;)

GreenHighlander said:
As someone who heats exclusively with wood I also have chuckled.
I fill my stove before I go to bed and shut it in. It is always still warm inside when I wake up and just throw some wood on the bed of coals.
I also live in an almost 200 year old house that is far from heat efficient.
As for seeds and growing in general KISS

Cheers :)
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Wake up, stir it up, and go again.
 
Deketx

Deketx

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Cable box works great. Just find the side that isn't too hot. I just went through weeks of dealing with the cold. It was 64-65 in my grow area. I tried heat mats, they work but get a controller or they will cook your soil. Finally I broke down and got a small heater, and worked well. My plants are smaller because they had deal with the cold, my.fault. but I learned a long the way for next winter. The difference between low 70's and mid 60's in temp is tremendous when it comes to growth. Don't let them drop into the 60's early especially if they are autos. Lessons learned here.
 
Aussieaceae

Aussieaceae

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If fast sprouts are what you want, then I do think warmth is what you need.
Otherwise it's just a matter of patience and planting straight into soil etc.

Surprises me just how resilient these plants are sometimes.
Usually get a few inches worth of snow on occasion where I am. The kind of falls that quickly melt away during the day. Never hangs around for more than a day or two. Days are warm, nights are cold.
I start seeds for outdoors in early September.

Really amazed me this year, because there was a late snow fall, right as the seeds were germinating.
They pushed straight the the snow on their pots, shrugged it off like it was nothing. No damage at all, barely even seemed to slow them down.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is as long as there is some warmth during the day, they are rather resilient to cold.
They're are amazing little buggers sometimes.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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By the way, including my hot peppers, the most effective method for sprouting seeds I have ever used is soaking the seeds for 12 to 24 hours, then straight into jiffy peat pods on a heat mat. Usually under a dome until seedlings poke out of the soil.
I take them out from under the dome as soon as I see them poking out, unless the shell is stuck to them. It has too high a risk for mold if you leave them under for too long.
 
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