Anyone making videos, should explain things like you! You didn’t assume your viewer knew what you were talking about. You broke it down in a simple and understandable and informative way! Thanks for making this!

You always have the BEST advice and explain things in a way that most people can't. Well done and thank you!

Excellent video! Thank you for making the lighting requirements easier to understand.

Thank you so much, your the best garden teacher! All the little details count so much!

Wow he started his growing season so early! I'm glad to be back watching this channel!

Thanks for another video packed with great information! We appreciate the time you take to share your knowledge with others.

I learn sooo much from your videos Luke. And hey, I received my first large shipment of seeds for this season today! Because of your informative videos, I feel confident enough to expand my gardening! This will be my first time growing Jicamas, radishes & different types of lettuces & more varieties of tomatoes. I brought my Carolina Reapers, Ghosts, Lunchboxes, Jalapeños & Bannna pepper plants indoors as you suggested so I'm sooo ready to get them back in the garden. I followed your advice & they've all done really well.

Thank you Luke that was the best lighting tutorial I've come across. 🌱🌻🕊

Finally! I've been looking for this information to solve my seedling problem. So happy I found this video. Thank you!

This is my go to video for a refresher on growing from seeds. Thanks Luke!

Thank you Luke for all the information your putting out lately

I sooo needed this... Thank you-Thank you!! I have had these very issues!! This year, I hope to be ready for spring 🙏

Thank you for the information about how far to keep seedlings from light fixtures and how to figure that out!

Great information all in one video! I've been a fairly successful seed starter for several years, but I'd never seen such a comprehensive discussion of lumens and kelvin. I will be making sure that the new lights I just purchased are the best for my seedlings. Thank you!

I have learned so much already. I paused the video to say thank you. I am challenging myself to build my 4 raised beds and 3 flower beds by seed this year.

That was a lot of good information Luke. Thanks for sharing it.

Thank you! I just moved to zone 6 or 7 from Florida. I have always planted outside, even my baby trays. So, this is very timely! I used to watch you, but in Florida, I watched David the Good. But now, I need cold weather advice, so, thank you. Thank you.

EXCELLENT information! Thank you so very much- old time gardener and still continue to learn.

Excellent presentation of info that is generally considered too technical and boring to merit attention. Thanks for making it easy to understand. Well done! ~ Lisa

Thank you. I love the way you explain things.

Wow, that was a really helpful upload. I had been misusing my grow mat and will be calculating the correct light height now. Thank You.

I am a newbie to your channel & am very happy to have found it. I've been looking & reading & trying to decide what type of grow lights to buy as this is my first time venture into starting seeds. This was very helpful, thank you!

Luke thank you so much!! Just what I needed 🤗🤗 Is my first year I’m growing from seed!! I got all my seed from your shop!! Impressive varieties!! God Bless you!! 🙌🏻🦋🙌🏻 Keep teaching us!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great info. Its my first year completed, and it was successful. Your videos help a lot. I started last year with starts, but this year I'll try starting seeds.

Request, please consider doing a video of growing some veggies like cherry tomatoes, lettuces, spinach& potatoes etc indoors throughout the winter months, in containers. Thank again Luke! You're a wealth of information & your videos are always such an enjoyable part of my day!! Blessings to you!

Your videos are very detailed with excellent information well explained. Thank you so much.

Great video! You explained it well and it was easy to understand!

Thought I needed all that. Thanks for clarifying. Watch you all the time. Glad you are in Michigan.

There needs to be a set, clearly marked standard on LED lights. I just purchased new LEDs and came to the conclusion to get one the stated the most blue light over red. Choose the whitest light with approximately 4-6K. Blue light is for vegetation and red for flowering. Thanks for mentioning color as it makes choosing easier. It can get complicated and I chose to look at the color spectrum. Many manufacturers won’t state color and Kelvins which makes choosing very difficult.

@scandallpower

Жыл бұрын

How is it working out? I just got a 5,000 lumen 4K light for my seedlings. They seem to like it.

@4labsfarm

Жыл бұрын

I picked up a HLG 300 blue spec refurbished for seedling/veg after learning what blue light does. My plants are much shorter and fuller as expected during veg.

THANK YOU!!!!! So helpful! 🎉

Great tips! Thanks Luke.

Excellent post! Thank you.

SO helpful! Thank you!

This was very helpful! I left the heat mat on!

Thank you for explaining in depth the lighting for seedlings. I've been going crazy trying to give them enough light.

Thanks 💚 Luke. I'm having this problem with my spinach seeds.

This was very informative, thank you

Great video Luke. I always learn a few things from each of your videos. You should see the amount of notes I have lol. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. 😊

Thank you Luke! Great information. Some of it I knew but some of it was very helpful. I will have non-leggy seedlings this year! 😁

Luke thanks so much for the leggy plants video. I planted spinach, which is in a garden bed on wheels. I cover it due to the cold weather but I noticed it started being leggy. I try to keep it watered. But I noticed it was dry before too. This info really helped!

This video was prefect for me. I am a new gardener growing my first lettuce plants right now and they look exactly like that! Thank you for the info!

Really appreciate this, Luke! Thank you so much! 👍

This was very helpful, thank you.

Brilliant, thank you and just in time.

Thank you for making videos like these, 😄😄 you've inspired me to start my own gardening channel 😃

Oh my Gosh, you just solved my problem! I thought I was doing everything right and I pretty much did, except that I kept my heat mat on for days after the seeds germinated. Will be turning it off right now! Thank you so so much for a great video! Will be watching the video on the proper use of heat mats next. I really appreciate your advice and great videos.

This was so extremely helpful! I’m still new to growing seedlings. I started last year and had some luck but wasn’t as good as it should have been. I had purchased bulbs from homedepot and they just were not strong enough. This year I purchase lights from Gardner’s Supply. Fingers crossed things are more productive this year! Thank you again for putting out all of this information!

@dvssayer5621

Жыл бұрын

I got the 4ft full spectrum grow lights from home depot, about $70 ea and they are so bright and the seedlings are loving it!!! There are switches for 3 kinds of light but idk what that is for ( wish I did) theres red light blue light and white...but I just leave them all on!

Thank you very much . Lot's of very helpful info. The lighting always confused me, so I really appreciate you explaining all of that.

My Lettuce seeds I purchased from you 2 weeks ago sprouted in 3 days just like you said they would. Cold season crops growing outdoors here in Florida.

This was a great video - thanks for doing it...

Thanks Luke!

Well explained, Luke, thank you. One of my son’s name is Luke and he likes to help me in the garden.

Thanks for shedding some light on leggy seedlings Luke. I had issues with that last season. With your help, I feel I can grow bigger this upcoming season.

@reedjasonf

Жыл бұрын

"Shedding some light" - nice pun for this video.

Thank you so much. This was very thorough information. I've never used grow lights and I do have leggy seedlings. I've got the fan I've got the right lights I've got the right moisture. I've got the right soil but I think they are too far away from the lights for the strength of lumens so I'm going to move them up and see if I can salvage them. Thanks again. 😃👍🏻

Thanks for the great information. 🥰

Thank you so much! I needed to know to turn the heat mat off after the seeds sprout. I wondered if the heat would affect the plant but I live in the Phoenix AZ area so 90 degrees is nothing around here.

Thank you. This helps a lot

Great info, now I know what I did wrong last year. Thanks so much.

Luke, I have had pretty good luck "replanting" leggy seedlings by pricking the plant out complete with the roots and replanting it deeper into the cell or into a bigger cell. The trick is to get the stem (it should be pretty flexible) down deeper in the cell without kinking it too much and packing the potting mix in around it giving more the plant more support. In some cases, Ive looped the stem down into the soil after burrowing out a bigger hole! This worked especially well for my tomato plants. I had no idea about grow lights and had spindly almost everything! This trick saved me a bunch of plants. This year, I'm armed with twin tube 24W 6500K 3000 Lumen LED shop lights with the reflective surface inserts that you shared in one of your other recent videos! No leggys for me! Thanks for the tips!

This really does help, thank you. Leggy sprouts are my #1 problem, and I really don't have room to fail at growing a garden this year. Thank you so much!

@joemachismo6594

Жыл бұрын

My number 1 problem causing leggy seedlings in past years was having my grow lights to far above the trays.

@kevinrussellcreations

Жыл бұрын

@@joemachismo6594 This is the main cause. After years of sprouting I keep my starters just inches below a 4 foot worksop light with 2 - 40 watt tubes. Works like a charm. They handle what heat is there but I do have to water a little more often.

@vendettaworm6185

Жыл бұрын

​@Kevin Russell New to starting seeds indoors and my spinich is getting leggy. I'll move the light a little closer. Ty!

@aidaplplmiddleton5452

3 ай бұрын

​@@kevinrussellcreations5:57

I know it’s silly - but I love that intro music. For me, gardening is relaxing and that ditty just sets the right tone for me. Good info also. Thank you!

@MIgardener

Жыл бұрын

So glad you like it! We love it too. :)

thank you very useful information about agriculture and can be an inspiration for my farm

Thank you for this helpful video! I have definitely made a few of these mistakes.

I've had the best luck when planting the latest possible in the season and let them harden into the winter

Thank you so much Luke! I have been taking notes this year. Super excellent content as always.

Great information on lighting!

Well presented thanks

Very helpful video! Thank you.

Leggy tomatoes are awesome, Luke, and you can transplant plant deep and create stronger roots. I intentionally do it because I love thick tomatoes. Adventitious roots, peppers have them too. Please review that with viewers 🙏. Most in the nightshade family can do this.

@strawberrymage8593

Жыл бұрын

I'm still fairly new at gardening, so i don't want to give bad advice, but I have noticed that my tomatoes that got a little stressed tasted better than the ones from the other plant that seemed healthier. Strange, right?

@xxtacowarriorxx6440

Жыл бұрын

@@strawberrymage8593 I know mint likes growing slow, add too much fertilizer and it gets too big too fast it loses a lot of essential oils. Maybe the stress causing the plant to grow slower makes more tasteful fruit?

@strawberrymage8593

Жыл бұрын

@@xxtacowarriorxx6440 possibly. It's interesting, right? :D

@frank3283

Жыл бұрын

He literally does talk about that in this video.

@joeyl.rowland4153

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who does this. I also let potatoes sprout to 4 to 6 inches before they go into the ground.

Thank you you explain everything really clear. Now I understand better why I have some leggy plants

This was very informative. I’m rather knew to this and it was so helpful. Thank you!

Excellent! Thankyou!

This is the best and most useful explanation I've lighting I've seen, thank you! Can you please post links to your light fixtures and bulbs? Or add them to your Amazon shop?

Thanks for the infomation. I will try it.

So helpful. Thanks!!

I learn something new with each video and I have fifty plus years gardening.

I DID learn something new. Thank you!

I really enjoy your videos. Thanks! Funny thing is I set up saltwater aquariums and I look for similar lighting. Metal Halide, mercury vapor or a set of VHO florescent were all there was when I first started working with reef tanks. LEDs for the win.

This was very helpful. I was making 3 of these mistakes

Suddenly I feel smart! I have addressed and dealt with every issue you brought up and have succeeded. I do only have my shop lights on for 9 hours with the timer. They are 6000 lumens and that seems to be enough time. My tomatoes, onions, basal, zinnias and peppers do great. I don't know if you remember the mini greenhouse with wire shelving you showed us, but I use 2 of them end to end to seed start without the plastic cover. To adjust the seed planter height I use empty distilled water boxes which can be stacked different ways for different heights. I use empty plastic bird seed bags to protect boxes from the water. I'm sure you all know flexibility and ingenuity get you where you need to be to grow big. I've been blessed! May the Lord keep blessing you and yours. Remember I sure do love you. You are like the younger brother I wish I had. PS: Luke I don't know if I mentioned this, but if you get a chance to fish family style or individually, with Jimmy Houston and Daniel Arms go for it. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and might even give you more KZread subscribers.

@rwind656

Жыл бұрын

@Craig Halle Can you find the video with the "mini greenhouse with wire shelving" please? TY.

@craighalle7892

Жыл бұрын

@@rwind656 if you go to the Migardener KZread channel and search for "mini greenhouse" it will come up.

This was very instructive. I though that I had planted the seeds not deeply-enough. Now, I see that it is probably a matter of not having the seedlings close enough to the light. I just moved them closer.

Great info Luke

I can guarantee my grandma didn't have a t5 and she started her garden plants indoors every year.

Thanks for this video! We had seedlings already sprouted in our greenhouse when we had that really cold freeze in December. We were frantic to keep temps above freezing and did all we could including putting the seedlings on the heat mat. That saved them the first night when the interior temp went into the 20s. not all the plants were so fortunate. I realize I now need to unplug the mat. Also, we were not sure how long to run the grow lights since it is a greenhouse, but we compromise and run it in late afternoon to extend the daylight, essentially giving them 16 hours of light.

@lts30000

Жыл бұрын

We bent 20 ft poles into a 32ft long hop house w/ roll ups. Any help you could get me in selecting layout for lights would be much appreciated. My planning is Grand solar minimum, more Ash airborne. GSM is the four hundred yr cycle that all societies so far have perished on. Judge accordingly however, our weakening magnetosphere or too much ash up here... Best of luck with much skill all....

Just came across your channel...good info. I haven't started my own seedlings for a number of years but when I did I used 4' fluorescent fixtures each with a cool white and a warm white tube which is supposed to give tge full spectrum of light the plants need. Does this still make sense? BTW used to grow about 1200 African type marigold with these lights.

Mate I Wish I'd found this Vid a long time ago. Absolutely Gr8 Presentation So much information very well done. Cheers

Thanks, I learned a few new things.

Great stuff!

Thank you

I have learned so much from your videos!

Thanks for sharing. Makes alot of sense. But i was growing them outside in a 40 percent shade house. But i think the tree nearby cut out the sunlight too quick and the seedlings didn't get enough sunlight. But will definitely try again keeping in mind some of your tips. Will move the shade house away from the tree. Thanks Bobby from South Africa.

Tx is the diameter of a fluorescent tube where x is the number of 1/8's of an inch it is. T5 is 5/8 or 0.625". T8 is 8/8 or 1". T12 is 12/8 or 1.5" diameter. T4 are half inch almost mini bulbs. T5 are often HO or high output. T12 VHO (very high output) used to be very common grow lights for aquariums. T8 was the standard for decades for house, shop, and business lighting but they were eventually phased out for T5s and now LEDs are getting to be everywhere. The most dangerous aspect of some old T5s was mercury contamination when broken. Mfgs addressed that as the tubes were becoming more common in homes by using different chemicals.

Thank you!

Hi Luke, thanks again for another great video! I see that you’re growing your seeds in the garage in Michigan. What’s the temperature of your garage? What temperature do you recommend growing seedlings in?? I’m planning to try mine in the basement under a seedling heating mat, but am not sure they’ll like the air temperature in the 50s-60s in the cool basement. Thanks!!

Thank you for the great info! Do you keep the fan running for 16 hours also?

Thank you very much for sharing your experience. How many hours a day the fan should be on the plants, please.

@MIgardener. Thank you so much for the video. I am looking to setup a grow rack (standard 2'x4' 5 tier shelf). I plan to run 4' T5 Bulbs. I have seen a lot of people use the 2 bulb fixtures. but I see you use a lot of 4 bulb fixtures, How significant is this upgrade? This will determine if I start with 2 x 4 bulb fixtures and expand from there. or 3-4 x 2 bulb fixtures and then upgrade in the future. I am preparing to start selling seedlings (yard sale style). so the extra shelves would be nice, but I would rather have 2 shelves of high quality plants over 4 shelves of leggy/weak seedlings that aren't worth selling or putting in my own garden.

Wow! Great video. I thought I was doing everything right. I had a 2ft long CFL with a sun bulb and heat mat. What I didn't know was there was not enough light and the heat mat was on after germinating. Here I am wondering why my seedlings are leggy and the cukes were long and thick, but fell over! Now I know that out of the six reasons for leggy seedlings, I was violating five of them! I'm very sad, but thankful for this video.

Good tips, i am a beginning gardener and am growing seedlings in my dining room in front of an east facing window. I have 2 trays of seedlings, most are leggy some are not. My grow lights are set to come on for 8 hours a day and a fan on low speed blowing over them. After watching this video I think my issue is not watering enough and now maybe i should increase the time the lights are on.

Great info, Thank you!