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Apply Seed Domes and Manage Humidity

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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT JIFFY SEED STARTER/GREENHOUSE

What happens here

After planting, cover the trays with the clear plastic seed domes provided in the Jiffy kits. These domes create a greenhouse effect, trapping humidity and maintaining a moist environment crucial for germination. Place the covered trays in a protected area with semi-light conditions, avoiding direct sunlight. Direct sunlight can overheat the mini-greenhouse and 'bake' the seedlings. Once the seeds sprout, gradually introduce them to sunlight, slowly acclimating them to outdoor conditions. Ensure proper watering; if excess water accumulates in the bottom of the tray, pour it off or leave the dome uncovered for a day to prevent mold growth, as overly wet conditions promote mold and can kill seedlings.

Goal: Cover the planted trays with clear plastic domes to create a humid environment. Place in indirect light until sprouting, then gradually acclimate to sunlight while monitoring for and addressing excess moisture to prevent mold.

Tools and materials

  • Clear Plastic Seed Domes
  • Planted Trays

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set it in kind of a protected place okay until our seeds start to sprout and then we'll start to bring them out into sunlight if you take this little greenhouse and you put it in direct sunlight with this right here it will bake your little plants and kill them so be sure until they sprout you keep them in a semi light place not a full Sun light place and when you take them out on your porch to let them breathe and you open this thing up be sure you protect those little plants for the first few weeks you don't want that direct sunlight pounding down on top of them you have to acclimate them to the outside Sun so we'll go through with our nail and the few that we did miss we'll go ahead and we'll tuck them in down here and basically you're just raking over the seed ever-so-slightly a good rule of thumb here is when you're planting seeds plant the seed twice the depth of the size of the seed in other words these tomato seeds are teeny teeny tiny little flakes like pepper flakes almost okay so you want to plant them very very shallow a lot Michela than you think now bean seeds and squash seeds and larger seeds like sunflower seeds and stuff like that again go with that rule of thumb only plant them twice the depth of the width of the seed and of the words if the seed is this tall and this wide plant it twice the depth of the width okay the skinny part once again don't plant them too deep make sure you don't overwater so just let the peat pods swell up to what they're gonna swell up to if they're still standing water in the bottom try to pour that water off or leave them uncovered for a day or so so that that water puddle dries up you don't want a big water puddle you don't want to be drenching wet because if you leave them like that it'll promote mold growth and you don't want that something everybody should know is that their mold spores in the air in the air that we breathe outside in the air that we breathe inside our homes there are mold spores and their yeast spores they're always out there they're always out blowing around so be sure you don't overwater get these things too moist too wet because that'll kill them just as quick as no water will kill them so we used about half our seeds and this is the 50 pack 50 tomato plants is gonna work my but I'll be giving some of these tomato plants to my neighbors and your neighbors always appreciate that so if you're outside and you're working and your neighbor sees your garden you give them some tomato plants…

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