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Ok, let’s plant the seeds.

planting parsley seeds

There goes the parsley seeds

planting parsley seeds

planting sage seeds

There goes the sage seeds

planting sage seeds

planting rosemary seeds

There goes the rosemary seeds

planting rosemary seeds

planting thyme seeds

There goes the thyme seeds

planting thyme seeds

planting catnip seeds

There goes the catnip seeds

planting catnip seeds

All Done!

I put a thermometer in there and now I am going to put it under an incandescent light to heat it up.

lighting and heating mini greenhouse

All I can do now is wait and see if the seeds germinate and sprout.


I put two large 65 watt cfl lights on them. That’s enough light but it is not hot enough.

lighting a carnivorous plant terrarium

I added a small incandescent grow light.

lighting a carnivorous plant terrarium

That did the trick.

lighting a carnivorous plant terrarium

The temperature is 90F with high humidity.

lighting a carnivorous plant terrarium

Water is condensing on the clear plastic cover sheet.

Perfect!

Note: The date today is February 26th.

I actually planted the seeds a while ago on January 20th.


I have a variety of thermometers as you can see.

thermometers

I am getting a water temperature reading well over 90F.

water temperature reading

What do you think? Is that too hot?

I say, what the hell, give them some heat.

These black plastic lids are working well. They fit tight and trap the water in preventing it from evaporating.


Just a few last steps here today.

all seeds planted

Here it is with all the seeds planted.

all seeds planted

pipette drink

I am giving each one a drink with the pipette to soak the seeds and settle the peat.

I made sure each one got the right additive formula.

pipette drink

covered with the greenhouse

I’ve got it covered up with the greenhouse now. It barely fit.

covered with the greenhouse

I put a thermometer in there.

thermometer light bulb heat

I put it under a 75 watt incandescent light bulb to heat it up.

I want to see the temperature over 80F. I might have adjust the height of the light bulb

and that should do it. The conditions in there are just about perfect for germinating seeds.



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