Aug '24 • Quick Wins
Edible Flowers, continued from the call
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.
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