Day 1- here we go!

Hi! Congratulations!
Now it's time for patience and joy!

I was planning on pulling them up to sit on top of the basket as the roots grow. I figure since they mature so fast I'm not really missing out on a few weeks there if it bombs. It's in a Harvest unit with corn salad on the other half so I can plant more lettuce or something if I see in a week or two that it's just not going to work.

I love how fast some of them germinate! Definitely helps cultivate the excitement while the slower ones take their time. All of my lettuce, bok choi, chinese cabbage, kohlrabi, cucumber, snap peas, and radishes have germinated. So happy to see them grow!

So Day 7 

Spinach and corn salad are definitely going to be difficult, if they germinate at all. I swapped the spinach and radishes so that the spinach and corn salad are together in a little Harvest unit. Since they're cool weather plants, I've been leaving the light off on that unit hoping it'll stay cool enough to germinate and occasionally adding a couple of ice cubes to the water. I didn't have this idea until a couple of days ago though, so it might be too late. At the same time I also stuck a few spinach seeds in a plastic bag with a wet paper towel, stowed it away in a kitchen drawer, and of course am already seeing germination. One way or another, hopefully I'll get spinach. It might come from the grocery store after weeks of trying, but whatever!

Also just noticed that the growlights on the lettuce half of my farm won't raise or lower at all, so I sent an email to Customer Service. It's a bummer, especially on such an expensive gadget, and I hope it's an easy part swap or something. I'd hate to have to disassemble and return the whole thing to get a working one...

Anyway, here's the lettuce farm:


Brassicas:

I lovingly refer to the big bok choy in the middle as Bokki Boi, and a friend of mine joked that it's going to herald in the abokalypse and take over my garden. It might! I like to think he has high aspirations.

Big things:

Now that the peas have sprouted, I have my iPad aimed at this farm in a timelapse app to see the growth during the day today. I know they grow fast, so I'm excited to see the little video of their progress tonight when I go to bed :>

Tomatoes:


Greens:


Herbs:

The thyme has also germinated and is just barely out of sight, but I'm glad he made it. I know cilantro takes a while, but I hope he makes it too. I use a ton of cilantro.

I'm following your experiment with interest!
Curious to see how you make out with the radishes and the peas.

And I do have spinach germination! Three of the four seeds have roots coming out of the seeds now. I've kept the light mostly off on that harvest unit so the temperature there is about what my house is (68F). Here's hoping they keep it up!

I shone a light down the holes and saw roots coming out of the seeds, like the foot of a mollusk. No leaves yet

I took the label off so my camera would stop focusing on it, but there's a standard label there as well.