I am growing Bibb Lettuce just past the microgreen stage, but not yet to maturity. The result is tender and quick baby lettuce greens in just 20 days. If you schedule your planting correctly (this is called “succession planting”) you can have fresh baby lettuce every week. Just plant a new tray each week, in 3 weeks the first tray will be ready for harvest, keep planting each week, and you will never run out of baby lettuce!
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great video. thanks for making it. I'm going to try this.
I'm also going to try it, thanks for the lovely video of you and you're birds!)
Nice, informative video. Thanks!
Thank you for this video. I have been thinking about baby lettuce greens and will give it a try.
Lettuce – Great point Tikki -key words: "FRESH SEEDS" of all the seeds that I've worked with over the years… lettuce seems to loose it's viability the fastest.. so Fresh Seeds are key with lettuce. Excellent Vid Tiiki!
Tikki you were asking about seeds and storage.. I wanted to share this with you/your audience.. I bought a large 5lb bag of Vates Collards seeds that I bought 3 years + ago, when I was doing a ton microgreens and classes. I still have about 1lb of those seeds left..and I'm now using them to grow starts and larger plants for hydro tower systems. My point with this is that those seeds are still highly viable.. I'm still getting about 90% + germination rate with good plant yeild. I have not taken any special care of those seeds other than keep the bag sealed, and a cool, dark and dry pantry.
I would say they are probably on the list of easiest seeds to used for both micro, macro and full growth.
Collard seeds (probably most all varieties) , store very well. Comparing to lettuce, where I have seeds that are barely a year old..the germ rate drops of dramatically. Now.. there may be some varieties of lettuce that will do better over time.. I just haven't researched that.
Thank you for your great videos. I am going to try to follow your "baby lettuce" method. I have just received Burpee Bibb lettuce seeds – seemingly the same as you used. In the video you call for a tablespoon of seeds (if I heard you right). Is that right? I ask because the packet appears to have at most about a teaspoon of seeds. Should I be using the entire packet then?
Very informative. I am growing baby lettuce for first time ever. I am on day 14. According to your video, it looks like the best is coming soon. Thank you for sharing.
I love all your videos and I have been using what I have learned from you in my hydroponic indoor garden. I only started this about 2 months ago. Whenever I have a question about what I am doing or about to do, I check out one of your videos. Thank you so much. Terie
Great video, thank you i keep learning little by little to grow a portion of my diet
Quick and to the point. And more information than other videos that are longer than necessary. Thumbs up!
Nice video. Another option which I often do, is plant real heavy and then cut at the microgreen stage. Then leave it to then grow to baby greens. When you cut for microgreens, there will always be slow sprouting seeds that will come up later and fill in the tray. Works really well.
Super simple and clear instruction, and to the point without filler information – this was a great video! Thank you!
Another one of your great super informative videos
Thank you for this great video. Happy Holidays!
I've done this with a gourmet mixture they look good but they're kinda limpy! The soil i used was fox farm ocean forest and maxigrow fertilizer. They've been under agribrite grow light. They've been planted 15 days so maybe i just need to wait. I think they should be greener…maybe too much fertilizer. One teaspoon per 1 gallon water. Like your videos!!
Oh my finally I found the Right video.just started learn to plant this micro lettuce..I thought it's take a short time to fully grown..Waited many day still the leaf does not mature..I thought it's dead..I leave it and die…. So, it takes a few weeks!
Just started my micro green journey. I'll plant another tray next week and keep it going
This is undoubtedly the best lettuce growing videos that I’ve seen. I’ve tried to grow lettuce and it just doesn’t work well for me when it has to sit there and grow and grow and grow. So now I know that I can grow it like microgreens and harvest it early. This is very cool ,,,, thank you so much for this !!!!