The New Best Way to Start Your Seeds!
Hoocho shows us How to Start Seeds Using Silicone Ice Cube Trays
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using or use. Utilize is verbose, circuitous and unnecessarily multi syllabic.
Have you added any thing in water
Amazing! Very helpful!! Big Fan 🍀💚🥬
Cotton ball. Your accent sounds like you’re saying cotton wool. Confusing because cotton balls are made from plant fiber and wool is made from animal hair.
I’m trying to get some slow seeds going…
Asparagus setaceus.
Removed the berries, removed the flesh. Currently have them in a beaker/heated magnetic stirrer at 40 deg C for 48 hours under LED lighting.
Made my own little humidity enclosure. Chinese container, little water container inside of that, 4x squares of toilet paper, seeds on top on that, with 1x square of tp on top of them.
Moisten with warm water. Close container. Put under CCFL surrounded with aluminium foil.
Start sprouting, get leaves, put into prepared pot and soil mixture and success… hopefully.
We’re ending winter time in Australia, so should be warming up soon.
Growing inside in a long planter pot. Bright indirect light.
Could apparently take 2-4 weeks to germinate, barrgghh, so slow compared to veggies etc
Thank you
Man Hoocho I loved this idea but the 6 bay silicon tray’s are expensive in the uk so being a man with a 3d printer I turned it into a print at a cost of 30 pence a tray and I love them. Went overboard and designed it into a whole little 6 plant propagation set with a watering tray and top with turn vent. I’m willing to share if you’re interested?
plant directly in rhe grownd!!!
Genius bro
Without any soil on top do you have issues with helmet head?
I been using the same plastic seed trays fur years … Why buy more?..
Hi Hoochie,
I like your greenhouse do you have a video showing a bit more in-depth how its built I would like to replicate
cheapest trays i could find, were $8.00 EACH, this is not cheap.
Great idea. Thanks
what the with the hoochi multi bucket where do buy it
Good idea! They also make silicone seedling trays.
You sound high😮
Also use egg cartons. The plastic ones would last a long time and you can keep the clear plastic lid for certain seeds.
Most of my ‘plastic tray inserts’ are 20 years old and they all have drainage holes that facilitate bottom watering
Cotton is a slave-product. What other things have you tried
brilliant Hoocho !!
Great idea! What is “coco “ when you referred to the soil?
You keep calling them cotton wool so are they cotton balls mixed with wool or is that what y’all call cotton balls?
Even cheeper is to use the wives cooking silicone trays.
Why not just set the cotton balls in a tray, wet down and put seed in each ball? Smaller trays keeps you just as organized as the silicon thingies. To take it to the next level of cheap, use paper towel for germination,……works just as well.
New? I was doing this b4 you were born dude. The final prejudice no one will address – ageism. Want great ideas on gardening? Visit your local nursing home, sit with the abandoned grammys and grampys, and learn lots of "new" things about gardening, farming, ranching, nutrition, and life hacks done decades and millennia ago. Learn about growing in ice cube trays/egg cartons/egg shells/cheesecloth/half potatoes etc etc using cotton, water, soil, kitchen compost, and stuff I don’t even remember that we had on hand, summer and winter in Minnesota. I appreciate the ease of media and the work of good YouTubers, but I’ve visited nursing homes for 4+ decades, since I was a teen, and find it’s very sad that this culture has replaced our elders with media, and call every old, relearned idea "new". We should be using media AND our grammies and grampys wisdom, along with making sure these amazing humans aren’t left lonely and thrown out. Definitely not a new idea, Thanks for sharing though.
Silicone when stretched has to remain the same color straight through or it is not 100% silicone and has dangerous chemicals in it. Buy only expensive high quality silicone.
This was actually inspiring. I like the cocoa coir propagation idea in these trays. It’s very sustainable.
Brilliant my friend, always enjoy your videos
Why would you not use egg cartons.?
so clean! Can I take them to normal soil afterwards?
That’s just like if you’re looking for a large Dome just find a large plastic Tupperware and use plastic wrap on top to seal it 🤷♂️
What the hell is cotton wool?
I tried this method and found everything dried out pretty quick and everything died.
can i fill the tub up with water around the trays or will that be too wet?
or should i just cling wrap to lock moisture in?
Very nice! Useful information in the very first minute.
I think you just made my gardening life so much easier!
What a 👍 informative vid. The best I’ve seen. Thank you so much!!
Your video is excellent is this method for all kinds of seeds
thank you very much it works wonderful ..in less than a week i could see the result….is it possible to plant the seedlings in a potting mix instead of an hydroponic system .?
What nutrients do you ususally use for seedlings and is it always the same?
can you use clay pebbles as a replacement for the cotton wool and is light 100% required or can they just sit under regular light?
It keeps gettin better.
Which silicone ice cube trays on Amazon USA should I buy?
It looks great, but mine are leggy.. Can’t figure out what I am doing wrong.. Is there any support for help? 😢
Thank you so much! Your point about not using seeding trays because then we tend to want to fill the whole thing and its just a waste and as home gardener we don’t need as many plants anyway. Damn. I always made myself overwhelmed with the seeding trays, I didn’t make myself mental space to enjoy the process and learn because I wanted to feel like a mass producing farmer haha. Now I am going back to gardening with an open mind, keeping things simple and easy, and learn and enjoy. 6 chili plants are enough!
Great episode. So much helpful info!
Yet another great idea. You are always improving the process. Thanks from uk
Love 💕 it
OMG game changer for home indoor growers you ROCK 🙏
ive been saving my plastic egg cartons to grow seedings in, the cotton ball trick is gonna be perfect for that! thanks!