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Fertilizing baby plantlets - update after few months

7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Hello, I had started a post- fertilizing baby plantlets a few months ago. I thought of posting an update. I did receive lots of great suggestions. This my old post:

[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/fertilizer-for-small-baby-plantlets-dsvw-vd~5558888[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/fertilizer-for-small-baby-plantlets-dsvw-vd~5558888)

These are how my plantlets looked in Dec. They were in 1040 trays with capillary matting /wicks and under large humidity domes, on shoplight stands.







These are what my plantlets now look like after almost 2 months. Some of them have buds too. I did get rid of a few plantlets, which were soggy or too small.






I added 20-20-20 fertilizer to the mats (1/4tsp per ½ gallon of water) almost every 2 weeks. At the moment reduced fertilizing to once a month, just give plain water. I also changed the capillary mat, the old one was dirty and moldy.

I did purchase a digital temperature/humidity measurement gauge. The average humidity inside the domes was 57%. The min /max humidity was 52/86% (which was quite a range). Usually just after I water the mats, the humidity does increase, but then comes down again to the 50’s range.

The average temp inside domes was 72F and min/max was 62/75F. I have not taken the plants out of the domes yet, as the outside humidity is 30% and temp around 50F. So will still keep them under domes.

I have yet to measure the light, have not downloaded the app yet. I did add an LED shoplight to one of my shelves which need new bulbs, decided to try the LED shoplight, instead of buying bulbs. Lets see how that turns out.

Thanks Irene and dbarron for your help!

Cooks.

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