1. Select your Area.
2. Check the local weather. It will let you know whether forecast for about 7 days of your city.
If you got problems with rats then take care of them because they will dig and eat seeds and you will never know what happened or they will cut and eat your seedlings in early stages.
This guide applies to all kind of fruits, vegetables and flower seeds (excluding Exotic Fruit Variety). For best germination, you have to place your seeds in the refrigerator for about 40 to 50 days. This will destroy all unnecessary microorganisms. After this, start germination process ending the Dormancy period.
Now prepare your soil for seeds:
1. Coco peat Sieved
2. Sand Sieved
3. Fungicide (Bavastin, etc.)
You should make professional quality seeding mix for best germination.
Follow the steps below:
1. Prepare fine Coconut powder by filtering with a strainer and dry it directly on sunlight.
2. At the time of filtering, you can get two types coconut fibre separately with another basket.
3. Use thick coconut fibre on the bottom of our sowing pot. They will be working as a strainer can controlling the water flow and it will also protect coconut powder flow from out of the bottom of the pot.
4. Use water mixed fungicide (Bavastin, etc.) chemical for watering dry coconut powder until it's soaked. To protect the baby seedling, fungicide chemical is very important. Through this process, the roots will be nice.
Secret Tips for tiny or very small seeds:
· Try to use a mix of half virgin forest leaf soil for better germination if the seeds are tiny.
· Mix 80% Coco peat & 20% Sand Sieved. After mixing add Fungicide 1 gm / 2.6 Kg.
· Now your seeding mix is ready.
Coco peat is basically finely cut coconut outer fibre because of its great ability to hold water (moisture), helping proper seeds germination providing air space for the roots, light in weight and easy to handle. Thus, makes it the best soilless germination media for seeds in the modern horticulture industry.
Today almost all commercial growers in the world use this as growing and germination medium because it sterilized. It does not contain any fungus that can kill or destroy seeds at germination and at seedlings early stages. It is very easy to find it at any gardening stores or nursery. It’s sold as solid compressed blocks of many weights and sometimes in prepared ready to use condition, starting from 1 Kg. to 5 Kg. cost of Coco peat is around INR 30 to 50 per Kg. depending on the quality. 1 Kg. of Coco peat block will become about 4 to 5 litres in volume. After buying, you just have to add water to submerge and wait for 20 minutes. It requires a rather big container from its size because it expands almost 4 to 5 times in volume after getting moist.
Follow these steps below for growing a healthy plant:
1. Use a Seeding tray or soil seedling pot: Put seeding mix then put one seed in every Cavity about 5mm deep (not too deep and not too shallow). Cover it with seeding mix and place the seedling tray in shaded place.
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2. Use a flat tray container about 10 inches by 15 inches (biggest or smaller your choice) 1.5 to 2 inches deep. Make sure you have plenty of holes in it for good water drainage put the seedling mix you prepared up to almost top leaving about 0.5 inches space now evenly spread the seeds over it after that cover the seeds with seedling mix only about 0.5 cm (half a centimeter) water it by watering can è place the container in semi-shaded place.
3. Watering tips: Use a watering can for watering. By moving the water stream constantly waves the can. Do not let the water to flood in particular area. Or use a sprayer to spray the water like mist.
4. Very essential: After sowing the seeds in coco peat for best germination cover the pot with clear plastic wrapper until they are germinated. Remove the plastic once in 2 days for about 20 to 30 minutes to have a good air circulation (do not give water if not needed). After that, again cover the pot with the clear plastic wrapper, this will act like you are using a Seeds Incubator. It helps a lot to maintain humidity, raises the temperature and protects seeds from rats and birds.
5. Important tips about Coco Peat: It may look as the seedling mix is dry from outside but it will be wet from inside. Always check the seedling mix by scratching it by hand that it is wet or dry from inside.
6. Watering it on need base so check regularly for watering. Do not over water the plants.
After seeds germinate you will wait till seedlings get more than 6 leaves. After that, you need to transplant the plant to where you want. Remove your seedling from the tray. Make sure that whole seedling mix is also removed from the tray with your plant. Do not try to remove seedling mix from the roots. Take them out as a whole, otherwise, the root of the plant will lose moisture during transplantation. Spray fungicide and insecticide every 20 days or as per need, fertilize every 20 days. Now you have got healthy plants.
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