5 Common Microgreen Growing Problems
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everybody? Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of the epic gardening podcast |
| 0:05.4 | This is your home for quick and informative gardening info all right my name's Kevin and before we get into the question, first off, thanks everyone. |
| 0:13.9 | Your ratings and reviews on the podcast have been really helpful and so have your questions. |
| 0:17.9 | So it's been really fun to kick this thing off with you guys. |
| 0:20.4 | All right, let's get into the question. |
| 0:22.2 | Today we are going to address common problems that you might have when you're growing micro-greens. |
| 0:26.7 | So I used to do this commercially and I've gotten so many questions over the years, |
| 0:30.6 | just a bunch of different problems that people are having when they're trying to grow |
| 0:33.9 | their micro-greens. So today we're going to get into five different problems and five |
| 0:38.4 | reasons why you might be having those problems. So let's go ahead and get |
| 0:41.5 | started. All right, number one, mold or fungus problems. |
| 0:46.6 | So for me personally, this is one of the bigger problems that I ran into. |
| 0:50.1 | I have high temperatures most of the time I live in zone 10b and humidity at least at the time I was doing |
| 0:56.8 | micro greens was quite high. So first of all before we get into how to prevent mold or |
| 1:00.8 | fungus there's a big difference between mold and the root hairs |
| 1:03.9 | that come out of your seeds. |
| 1:06.6 | So root hairs are going to be surrounding |
| 1:09.8 | the main root of the seed and are super beneficial for a plant. |
| 1:12.8 | So do not mistake those for mold. |
| 1:16.4 | You'll actually find that mold looks like a spider web |
| 1:18.8 | crawling across the surface of the growing media. |
| 1:21.2 | And it usually starts out in like a small |
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