Artificial Emotion
Bluelighter
You need to start keeping it simple.
Try an experiment, keeping it simple this time and see how you go. Get peat pellets (the kind that swell up when you soak them in water before use) and plant the seeds straight in there, making holes just a few mm deep and covering. Keep them warm at a temperature of 21-23 degrees centigrade and wait for them to germinate. Then once you see roots poking through the bottom you then plant them into a small pot of soil, planting some mycorrhizal fungi into the planting hole if you wish.
The soil should be something simple to start off with. Never mind adding sand, stone, top soil, ashes and all that. Just get multipurpose compost from your garden centre/nursery (please show us a photo before you use it so I can say whether it's likely to be okay to use if you want to be sure) and sieve it with a 1/4 inch gardening sieve.
Make sure you water the soil once you've planted the peat puck into the planting hole with tepid (inbetween hot and cold) water and then use what is called a wet/dry cycle, meaning you allow the soil to dry out slightly inbetween waterings so the roots can get oxygen from the air. But be sure not to let it dry out too much otherwise the plant will wilt and cause damage. The soil, if it's a multipurpose compost, will already have fertilizers added to it so you do not need to add calcium, phosphorus or any other fertilizer to it. Each time you pot up with fresh compost you are adding fresh unused compost for the roots to use so they will get enough nutrients from that. And that leads me on to the next point - you should be potting up in stages instead of planting straight into one big pot full of soil.
You need to make sure your environment is right if you're growing indoors with the right amount of light and good airflow maintained by the use of a good extraction and intake fan. I assume you already have that sorted out, right?
Try an experiment, keeping it simple this time and see how you go. Get peat pellets (the kind that swell up when you soak them in water before use) and plant the seeds straight in there, making holes just a few mm deep and covering. Keep them warm at a temperature of 21-23 degrees centigrade and wait for them to germinate. Then once you see roots poking through the bottom you then plant them into a small pot of soil, planting some mycorrhizal fungi into the planting hole if you wish.
The soil should be something simple to start off with. Never mind adding sand, stone, top soil, ashes and all that. Just get multipurpose compost from your garden centre/nursery (please show us a photo before you use it so I can say whether it's likely to be okay to use if you want to be sure) and sieve it with a 1/4 inch gardening sieve.
Make sure you water the soil once you've planted the peat puck into the planting hole with tepid (inbetween hot and cold) water and then use what is called a wet/dry cycle, meaning you allow the soil to dry out slightly inbetween waterings so the roots can get oxygen from the air. But be sure not to let it dry out too much otherwise the plant will wilt and cause damage. The soil, if it's a multipurpose compost, will already have fertilizers added to it so you do not need to add calcium, phosphorus or any other fertilizer to it. Each time you pot up with fresh compost you are adding fresh unused compost for the roots to use so they will get enough nutrients from that. And that leads me on to the next point - you should be potting up in stages instead of planting straight into one big pot full of soil.
You need to make sure your environment is right if you're growing indoors with the right amount of light and good airflow maintained by the use of a good extraction and intake fan. I assume you already have that sorted out, right?
