Just about every shelf in my grow room is filled with seeded pots, or seedlings already growing. Most have sprouted and are now filling their space. Waiting for the temperatures to rise so they can be planted outside. At the moment we still get freezing nights/mornings. So a few of these plants need to wait until warmer weather before I can transplant them.
We have some thyme and penny royal growing in these two groups above. The first makes for good spices while cooking, and the other is an ingredient in insect repellent. Both smell really nice.
Both plants are perennials where I live. Meaning once I start them in the ground and they become established they should come back every year. Hopefully they wont grow too much but hard to say for sure.
I have started more lavender seeds as well, having better luck this time around with germination.
They were just transplanted from 1 inch cells into these bigger cells.
May take them a few weeks to adjust, after moving seedlings they sometimes do not like it.
The soil looks really wet, I have to keep them moist as if they dry out during the crucial stage they die within hours.
Lavender seeds are tricky, so growing them by cutting/clones are best. But I did save a lot of money just buying seeds, compared to buying a bunch of lavender plants from a nursery.
I still have another seed packet of lavender to go through, so I am not quite out of the woods yet on these seedlings. But by the time I am done with them, there wont be much need with all the starter plants I have going now.
The lavender seedlings will need a good year before they can go outside. But this is the start for them. Eventually they will be big enough to live outside but one day.
The pines are doing well, they want to go into some bigger pots. Going to do that real soon. Then I hope that is the final transplant, from seven gallon pots into the ground by next year. So their journey to the ground is not quite done just yet.
I use full spectrum LED lights, they give off a pink color. So many of my rows look like the white balance is way off on the camera.. lol
My eyes have to adjust when I leave the room.
These are lavender cuttings from my larger plants that are currently outside in pots. Amazing how well they have grown over the winter.
I took cuttings in the early autumn last year and rooted them. Now its early spring they are some good starter plants.
Now that I have a bunch of starter plants, I hope to repeat the process this autumn. Collecting cuttings and growing them over the winter in the grow room.
I ran out of space for the lavender seeds, so I started some in larger pots as well. Plus that is my over flow of pines too.
