I'm growing lettuce for the first time.
Do you bring it down to a single sprout for a head?
Here they are today...
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Lindsaylew82 wrote:I'd wait until they are bigger. That way you can harvest the baby lettuces when you cull. Are they gonna be transplanted?
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Rairdog wrote:What media are you using Tabasco. Rockwool? One seeds per cell and no culling here.
Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:47 pm
Lindsaylew82 wrote:Haha! Not at first!
I LOVE seeing rows of 2-3" tall lettuces before thinning! So full and lush! I prefer baby lettuces, so they get thinned out really quickly at that point.
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Rairdog wrote:In the garden I will cull. For the AP my girls with good eyes put one seed per cell. It makes it easier to rinse the roots off before going into the media when they're not all tangled up. I also use the peat pellets with one seed each and place the whole pellet in the media for spinach and lettuce. It will rot the stems of tomatoes, peppers and other plants. Rockwool is too expensive for me. There are some foam type disks that has a slit in it. I'm not affliated but it is a cheaper greener sustitute. Great for cloning also. Here is a link but they are easy to make.
http://www.bigelowbrook.com/Products/Gr ... fault.aspx
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