As I mentioned on the call, to do flowers vertically, you have to think form factor. Ideally your plant height is 18 inches or smaller. This will allow you to get 3 to 4 shelves per rack. You also have to suspend thinking like a microgreen grower and think like a gardener, since you are dealing with singular plants. I use 4 gallon fabric grow bags. I use this size specifically because they are 10 inch or so in diameter and you can get two of them in a 1020 tray. I use deep 1020s as a catch basin, and once the plants are big enough you can bottom water in the deep tray. Another nice thing about the grow bags being fabric is you don't have to fill them whole way, you can fold down the walls. This way I can get 8 bags per shelf, and therefore upto 24 or 32 pots per rack. Suggested plants: Violas/Pansy (12 to 16 inches) Little Gem Marigold (18 to 20 inches) Dianthus (Cheddar pinks and China pinks - 12 go 16 inches) Egyptian Pentas (16 inches) Verbana (16 inches) Ones you can try but don't recomend for indoor growing: Borage (too tall at 36 inches) Snap Dragons (taste like crap and don't display great on diahes and too tall) Bachelor Buttons (fins if you're picking pedals... kinda awkward to eat and too tall) Recommended lights: barina t8, 2 per shelf. Soil: super soil. Learn from the pot heads... they k own how to grow flowers. I use Sub Cools super soil mix, it's organic, and produces like crazy. I have pentas now pushing 10 months of flowers. I'll post more deets For alot of this below.

Hey yall. If you haven't seen on the Book of Faces yet... I was interviewed by Diego Footer in July, for his Griwing Microgreens Podcast, and the episode just dropped today! Here it is if you care to check it out. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YcnwyNcNZaZaDIOvb9CVw

Have you ever gone to harvest what looks like an incredibly healthy, thick, vibrant crop only to find an excessive amount of moisture held in the canopy between plants and under leaves, with occasional dead slimy plants hidden inside? Well here’s a little discussion on why that is, and what you can do about it. Imagine this, you’re watering your tray pretty heavily because your variety just germinated and is thirsty. The plants love it, they are thriving and growing so well. You continue to water the same amount, thoroughly wetting your medium and the plants continue to grow taller and the canopy begins to fill in. 8 days have gone by and the canopy is thick with leaves and very densely filled in, you go to water but your still watering the same amount. Well this is an issue! The thing is once your canopy begins to fill in you need to decrease the amount you are watering, and only water enough to feed the roots but not so wet that the top of your medium looks moist. The thing is once the canopy fills in and your still watering to the point that the top of your medium is saturated means that water at the top is going to evaporate, adding more moisture to the canopy resulting in excessive water collecting there, instead of what you want which is a slow progression the opposite direction, I.e. drying of the canopy and in between pants. So instead once you see that canopy filling in, dial back how much your watering and find the sweet spot that will actually allow the very top layer of medium to dry out slowly. Other things you can do to improve this situation is adequate airflow and a thicker/deeper medium. ^^ this is strictly for the 2 to 3 days prior to your planned harvest day. That’s when this is most important. Your thoughts? (Photos are a good example of this problem)

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This is a harvest from Sunday. There are a few key takeaways. First, I need to pay more attention to my sow dates. I was thinking I sowed these sunflowers a week ago Monday or Sunday but instead it was a week ago Friday. Second, I need to pay more attention to my watering. Correct me if I am wrong but I think they sagging because I either overwatered them or the humidity is too high. I also need to like with the pea shots not black them out and see if this helps with the stems and not getting so leggy. Lastly, like I did with my indoor gardening (February - April) I need to use boxes to get the greens closer to the grow lights. As they grow I can then use different boxes or containers as I need or remove them altogether when they are close to being harvest ready. Perhaps, this to will help with the greens not getting so leggy as well. It is crazy how my greens can go from sown to harvest ready in 7-8 days instead of 10-11 days. It is also crazy the results I got in my three trials. For example with the pea shoots the seed starter and coco coir mix gave me the highest yield while the coco coir gave me the lowest. However, with these sunflowers it was the coco coir that gave me the highest yield and the seed starter that gave me the lowest. Not sure if this is normal or if there is something else I am doing or not doing that is causing this. I will have to keep testing. Next up is either radish or broccoli. Once, I have tested both of these over the next 2-3 weeks. I will decide which two of the three growing mediums are the best. Then I will have to test all four different seeds again before I can decide which growing medium will give me the best or highest yield. Any thoughts or feedback from the community here is welcomed and appreciated. Thank you so much for all your help, advice, and recommendations.