What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Now today I'm talking about a seed starting problem

That a lot of newer growers are gonna run into and it's one that I still sometimes run into as well.

And that is tall and stretched out seedlings

that flop over and die as soon as you try to transplant them

or harden them off or even just let them continue to grow.

And so in gardening terminology that's known as leginess and it's kind of weird that it would be called

that because obviously plants don't have any legs but the idea here is that they are

stretching out and they are effectively going to start collapsing under their own

weight and so when it comes to seedlings, the most common cause of leginess is going

to be a lack of light. And there's two ways that that can manifest. So the first way that

can manifest is let's imagine

you're growing a tray of micro-greens and as we all know you have to cover those

micro-greens. So if you're growing them in a 10 by 20-inch tray maybe in soil, and let's imagine you're growing radish.

Well, radish is going to take anywhere from 36 to 48 hours to germinate, and then after that,

it's going to start growing, but it's going to be covered up by another tray or

a blackout dome of some sort but it's still going to want to grow and it's growing in

complete darkness and what's going to happen there is it's going to continue to

search for light.

And if you're like me and you just flip another 10-20 tray on top,

that means that sometimes they're imperceptible cracks where little bits of light can come

through and plants are going to want to reach

towards that. So a general cause of leginess can be simply if you're growing seedlings

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