How many seeds should you plant per pot, hole, or cell when you’re starting seeds? It’s a great question and one that depends on…math! Not all seeds are created equal and not all seeds germinate the same…so learn how to get the best, healthiest seedlings possible!
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Hey!!! They told me there would be no Math!!! 🙂
Thanks for vid!
As a math student, I loved this! Gardening + Math = Awesome (for me :D)
Yay probability
When you said math and germination rate I was thinking "I totally he hopes he picks 90 percent". If you picked 80-20 you would have looked like a wizard to us all. Awesome!
I planted some seeds from a Burpee bean packet. Two different plants emerged: 1. A tall stalk like plant shown in the first 3-8 pictures. 2. The 9th photo shows an actual bean plant that is producing beans. The other photos are cucumbers etc. Can anyone identify the tall stalk plant? Here is a link to a You tube video of the mystery plant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvmOReQsRAs&t=0s
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Well explained! 🙂
I can't wait to see the follow-up on that basil pruning video if you're going to do one! 🙂 thanks for the tips!
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Screw it, from now on, it's personally going to be minimum three seeds per planting spot, more if they're tiny like a punctuation mark. No more hemming and hawing with single seed per spot like I did before.
Packets are 2-3$ with often seeds in excess. I swear I have monarda fistulosa and it says "1000 seeds with 72% germination rate" so you can bet your gardening butt that I'm going to put 5-10 in the ground.
Might as well stack our odds and play the law of average just like nature does with her millions of seeds spread out.
Thanks for the green push!
good explanation but its useless if you dont know that exact germination rate of the plant you are trying to grow? 9/10 is just your example.
Gonna end up growing a alien marijuana plant using this method… it happens
Something funny I use 3-15 per hole (I put 3 in all the holes but then threw the rest in all the holes randomly )
Can you do some video on which soil to use for good germination rates.
Do you have a video on which soil to use for better termination rates
In my apartment I planted radishes in a long pot but, they grew really small. Why? What did I do wrong? Thank you!
Perhaps a silly question, but if I didn't plant enough seeds the first time around in my small pot, although I'm getting some germination, can I just plant more seeds in that same soil next to to those germinating? The herbs are germinating but not growing fast enough (several weeks with very little growth). I've planted basil, cilantro and chives. Thanks in advanced for your input!
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Plant 3 seeds in a hole
Beginner Gardner here, love your content. I was curious, I have used this methods and have some cells with 2 seedlings sprouting, healthy looking plants (2 weeks old). Could I transplant one of those plants to another cell or should I just snip it like you stated here.
Thanks for the time!
When multiple seeds germinate in one spot, when should you clip off the “weaker” seedlings?
Hibiscus seeds
at what point would you snip off the less desirable starts?
Hello Kevin. Just discovered your channel. I have the opposite problem. I planted some lettuce seed and put way too many in each hole so now I have a lot of little seedlings in each cell and don’t know how to thin them? In one cell I have I have a least 30 seedlings. Should I kill 29 and leave just one?
Your videos have helped me so much. Last year I had a giant tomato bush. But they were all i was growing anyways. This year I plan on doing much more.