Seeds going into water

A couple of pepper seeds have a root – maybe 1/8” long – decided to see what would happen if I plant them in the water flow. Some other seeds have cracked; decided to put them in also to see what would happen. Still have many, many seeds in sponges under warming light.

So now have 2-3 red and 2-3 orange pepper seeds with roots, along with carrots, dill, lettuce and flowers in the sphagnum moss that I was able to find. It’s not an ideal substance for this – kind of messy – so as the water flows through it, it gets all over. Am hoping that the rockwool will arrive tomorrow.

The light that is over them is a 2700k 105watt fluorescent – basically a very large compact fluorescent bulb. Will have to watch closely to make sure that my desklamp socket doesn’t get too hot. Set up a paper reflection system to help keep the light in the realm available to the plants… might have to find a better long-term solution, but it should work for a couple of days.

Need to be taking pictures!