Onion Starts

> From:Steve  (Maritime...)
> Carleen, 
> Just make sure you keep those onions cool while under artificial or
> winter light, and make sure the surface of the flat stays dry.  A
little
> ventilating fan for 1/2 hour a day is a good idea.  It's really
somewhat
> early here in the high temperate north for starting seed, as there
> really very little natural light this time of year.
> Keep us posted on your progress.  Are you using flourescent lights?
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I read where they like to germinate in the dark as well as warm
temps. So the first four days I set them inside, with a plastic dome
and laid a dark towel over it.  As the seed sprouted, I covered them
with a little more than 1/4 of an inch peat moss.  Should I add more
?

I then set them in my unheated laundry room where temperatures run
about       and it can get just a tiny bit humid, but quickly clears
as a 1/2 inch gap under the interior door allows for some house-heat.
 I set them on a table in front of the only window, which is on the
South side of the house and I left the dome on. Guess I best remove
that dome for air.  I do have a 3'' computer fan I could set up. (My
son can convert it's 12 volts to 110, I guess.)  Or perhaps I could
just open the window once a day in the warmer part of the afternoons.
 Would that do ? 

It's been just 24 hours and some are "peaking" threw the moss and No,
I haven't added fluorescent lights. I spray-watered them twice; once
at planting and once again just before adding the peat moss, keeping
them lightly moist to dryish...  I will spare the watering then. 

How's that sound ? 

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Rainier, OR  zone 8
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