[Marcella]

I planted the seeds in paper cups with seed starter soil and put them under the four foot grow lamp SUNDAY. Today is WEDNESDAY, and I have these plants coming up already:
Turnip greens
Lettuce
Green Beans

That is three days and I've got plants. There are a number of different food seeds under the lamp for a fall garden, and I expect they will come up, too. I think I've noticed my black thumb is beginning to change color to green - it's not there yet, but I see the thumb is not as black as it was.

Mr. Stevia plant is looking better since it got here yesterday.

[JRandomFreeper]

You did put drain-holes in the paper cups, right? And you are watering from the bottom and not the top?

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Something I may not have mentioned... I use ONLY rainwater when starting seeds.

/johnny

[sockmonkey]

Mr. Stevia plant is looking better since it got here yesterday.

Lol, I'm sure it's all the attention he's getting. BTW, how do you keep ants from moving into your grow bags, and setting up ouse in the soil?

I got a bag of potting soil off my cenent slab the other day, and it was already "colonized" by the little jerks.

[rightly_dividing]

That's great! Sometimes I have seeds sprout quickly like that and then some seeds are slow to sprout.

Our mater cuttings are still looking like they are going to survive. Our ghost peppers have 4 red peppers; I guess they are ready to pick and dry. The other ghost pepper is growing and flowering like crazy, but no peppers. New territory for me.

Still picking maters. Have about a dozen small ripe ones in the house of different varieties.

[greeneyes]

Such good news Marcella. It seems that I am having difficulty getting to all my pings between the time I logged of for my trip and tonight when I finally got a chance to reply.

Everyone, I am sorry if I didn’t get a response out to you. Between the trip and the truncated pages, I just don’t think I got them all.

[ApplegateRanch]

GREAT! Glad it’s working out for you.