Re: Onion Starts
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:17:40 -0800
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rosenlund wrote:
>
> > 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?
> ---------
> 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
Sounds like you're off to a good start. I'd like to know how you do
with natural winter light. You're only a couple of degrees south of me
so we have similar daylength. What percentage of the southern sky is
exposed to your window? (i.e., are the any trees or buildings that cut
off the light of the sun hitting your window this time of year?)
Steve (Maritime...)
