Leaving a little water on the plate is fine - it will get sucked up before your next watering. We allow the medium to drink up what water it can, and then To the plate or solid tray it is sitting on/in. To spray with the Spray Bottle, but we keep the medium moist by adding water directly Possible gets soaked up by the Hemp Felt, and then pour off most of the excess. We gently tip and turn the plate so as much water as Hemp Felt on a plate pour water directly onto the plate. To watering, We mist them with a Spray Bottle until the seeds have firmly rooted. We have to water them more often when we do this. We even use direct sunlight when available. We then expose them toĪll the light our kitchen has to offer. We uncover our plants when they are about 1/2 inch tall, or when they are hitting the covering plate. Plate, then we follow our own instructions for keeping the medium and seeds-sprouts thoroughly moist. Hemp Felt is less messy and works fine and dandy. When we grow to this stage we either grow on Hemp Felt, soil (any kind will do), or our favorite -Ĭoconut Coir. The Cotyledon (first leaf) stage, and cut above the medium upon which it is Traditionally it is just a plant grown to There are varying opinions of what constitutes a Micro-Green. Mix them together thoroughly before moistening. If you plant on soil - or better yet with Coconut Coir (our FAVorite), mix in 25% Earthworm Castingsįor the ultimate nutrient rich, moisture retaining planting medium. The perfect container for these soilless mediums is our inexpensive Compostable Tray. We use it in a Spray Bottle or by watering the medium directly. in 1 quart of water (this is a higher concentration than the product label calls for). When growing on a soilless medium like Hemp Felt - it is advisable to use Liquid Kelp FeritlizerĪdditional nutrients to draw upon. We uncover the crops at different stages, depending on what we are doing with a particular crop. Misting heavily for some - not at all for others. We mist them with a Spray Bottle at least once a day until they sprout, and then bury their roots in the medium.

We then plant the seeds (which are just spread atop that thoroughly moistened medium), and mist them with a Spray Bottle, when appropriate. We skip both now, concentrating first on thoroughly moistening Them less and less necessary as we've worked with Micro-Greens.

Though our instructions (in the Growing Instructions Tab - to the left) used to suggest these steps (for non- mucilaginous seeds), we have found Won't grow as sprouts and Micro-Greens are SO gorgeous and offer a lot of unique and really cool possibilities. Some seeds (especially mucilaginous seeds) Frankly, we prefer Sprouts to Micros because we find them plumper and more texturally pleasing -īut we keep working with them. Years passed, but we were always Sprout People first. Nobody was interested in them - not our farmers marketĬustomers, not our food stores (co-ops, natural food stores and grocery stores we delivered to every week), not our restaurants, nobody! That did change some as the

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