Make The Most Effective SEED STARTING MIX At Home: 99% Germination?
Making a Seed Starter At Home That Can Achive Upto 90% Of Germination Rate Is Not SomeThing You can’t Do. Even If You are a Beginner, Following This Simple & Cheap Recipe Will Serve You In the Best. We WIll See How To Make a Seed Starting Mix Without Buying So many Expensive Ingredients, & Still Get a High Germination rate. So Lets Start the Magic.
Nature’s Way….?
First of all, We Should Know What Actually Seeds Germinate Well In. In A Natural Ecosystem, The Plant Produces Alot of seeds, They Travel In The Surroundings By Water & Air Flow.
& Many Times The Surrounding Area is Well Enough To Achieve a Germination Rate of 60-70%. Plant Produces So Many Seeds, because it Know only 70% of them Will Germinate. But We have The Full Control Over The Qualities of a Seed Starter, So lets Understand How The germination Actually Happens.
What’s a Great Seed Starter Is Like?
The Basic Style of Germination is Same, While some seeds May Like slighly more Or Less of These Qualities.
First of all Seeds Cover, The harder & protective Outer Shell gets Broken Or rotten. This Happens Due To Moisture & Temp. a Hot & damp environment cracks open The Seed Shell. Then The moisture Reaches The Inner Part & It’s a Singal For Seed To Start Sprouting.
Now It will Grow Some Roots, & a bended Stem that Grow Upwards, Both The Roots & Stem Grow Well In a Soft Mixture. The Growth Is Fast If The Soil is Fertile, & Season Is Ideal.
The Most Important Part of A Seeds Media Is It’s Softness, Mostly Our Seeds Germinate But The can’t Get Their Heads Out of The Soil, Because The Soil is Hard, Only The Healthy & Stronger Seeds make It Out of The Soil.
Overall, Our Soil Media Should Hold Moisture For Sometime, So The seed Shell can Rot. It Should Be Soft & Well draining. & Higher Nitrogen Creates Heat For Faster Germination. Our Seeds Media Should Not Have Salts, Or Insects Of Any kind, They Will eat the Seeds.
What Benefits An Ideal Seed Starter Provides?
Using an Ideal not Only Provides Better germination But also Helps In the After growth. The Germination Goes Smooth, healthy & Fullest Sprouting happens, The Roots & Stems Are steady & Healthy Which promises The Future Growth.
Seeds Starter With Softness Aids The Roots growth, Which improves The hold of Roots Over The Soil, & hence Watering over The Seedling wont cause The Seedlings To fall & Die. Overall It’s a Mixture with a balance, So Just Give it a try.
The Key Ingredients:
Now lets Know How To make an Ideal Seed Starter at Home,
Sand – 2 Parts:
The first & The Most Effective Seed Starter’s Ingredient is the Sand. It Drains Really Well, Also prevents The Soil compaction Keeping It Loose & Soft. You can use River Sand, Or Construction sand. The Color Or Texture May Vary, Just Make Sure You Aren’t Using Sea Sand Its Salty Which is Unhealthy For Seeds.
Soil – 2 Parts:
Another Ingredient is The Simple Soil. If Your Garden Soil is clayish, Means It get Hard & Compact, Then Use Lesser. We Are using Sand etc To Keep It Loose. Nothing To Worry. Just Dry out The Whole Soil in a Sunny Spot, To Remove all Kind of Insects From it. Make Sure There Aren’t Stones or pebbles In The Soil, They Can limit The Germination.
Cow Dung – 3 Parts:
One Thing to use In Our Seed Starting Mix is The Cow dung. Better In a Composted Form, You can Also Buy It From Here. Cow Dung is a combo Of All Nutrients, With Higher Nitrogen Which Our requirement Too. Use Only The Described Amount, Otherwise The Heat Can also Burn The Seedlings.
Cocopeat – 3 Parts:
Another Ingredient For Our Seed Starter is The Cocopeat. remember The Softness & Water Holding We Need For Igniting The Germination, Cocopeat Is Best For This Job. It will Keep Our Media Soft, Moist & well Draining, Its also Added Here.
Here We Have all Our Ingredients, Mix Them Well & Our Homemade Cheap & Effective Seed Starter Is Ready To use.
The 99% Germination?
Lets Test Our Seed Starting Mix, Add It in a Pot, Water The Soil Well, Then Place The Seeds You Wanna Grow. Make Sure The Season is Right For These Seeds To Germinate, Now Cover Them With same Soil Or use Cocopeat.
Moisten The Soil Really Well First Watering Is The Key To crack open The Seed Cover. Place The Pot In a Well Lit Shade, So Our Soil Stays Moist, & Seedlings Can Get Light once They Germinate.
Now our Seeds have Germinated, You See How Easy It Is. Just Follow all The Rules. use This Seed Starter For Any Kind Of Seed, Some Likes more Softness, While Some Likes More moisture is Their Mix, So You can Adjust That.
But Generally It Will Work All most all Kind of Seeds, From flowering Plants, To Vegetables, House Plants To Cacti. & Here is a Soil recipe For Bigger Plants, Its homemade & Cost Effective, Follow if You Like to.
