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so much happening

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Thinning This picture is a few days old, when these sprouts had only cotyledons:  Red Amarynth ,  butterhead,  buttercrunch, and  breen (forgot to update breen in the spreadsheet).  Replaced:  an empty pod (earlier arugula?),   bolted arugula,  buttercrunch (accidentally left two and the bolted one after the other), and  cilantro (see bolting below). The flashy trout still has not germinated - two more weeks before asking for a credit. I probably should have put the strawberry in too. It is so tiny. I guess the mint was too.  Hmm where to put it? In the future, I should plan time to soak the empty pods in vinegar before putting them back into use. Some had a bit of discoloration even after h202 and a toothbrush. The cubes cleaned up fairly well. Do I want to bake the stonewool to sanitize? Clearly I bought some stonewool cubes. Also my membership seems to be bringing in cubes faster than I am using them. For the cubes I am liking my...

True leaves? and related challenges this week

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It has been a couple days shy of three weeks since the first gardyn box arrived and I put the seed cubes in water. While I started getting messages around day 10, and clearly others are ready then, Mine was not ready then, <video from Dec 7> Went away for a few days and could not hover. I am disappointed in the quality of the kelby pictures. Also it did not always show pictures from the same times on both cameras (skipping times). Additionally some of the pictures were taken in the dark and were worse. The true leaves were more obvious to me when the leaves were serated. On the rest, I seem to be going for a count greater than two. (Can add all of today's pictures with blogspot on the computer but not on my android phone with blogger.) According to the written documentation it is ok to thin at 2-3". Most were shorter. As it was some were so close as to be hard to tell which leaves came from which stems. Put 3 teaspoons (as measured by the spoon that came with. Allegedly ...