Oh, crap, forgot to add, those guys are 18 days after emerging from the soil, 23 days after seeding.

The #1 piece of advice I can offer is to get yourself a pH test kit, and verify the pH of the water that you are using. The water coming out of my tap (after running through a brita pitcher to remove the chlorine) read at an astoundingly high 8.6 pH.. which is why I saw almost no growth the first week after they emerged.

Almost all of the above growth is after I added a pH downer, an acidifier to my water for them, or about the last 12 days or so.

Mostly my super hots. 25 varieties!!

They look amazing, how far along are they?

BTW, I'm jealous of your shelf setup. Where did you find a shelf like that?

2nd year Vegtable grower here *but new to seed starting this year" and I saw my first sprout from a pepper plant (Burpee rainbow mix). This happened after 6 days since put in a Jiffy Peat Pellet.. I rigged my own heating source by using an old computer to put the Jiffy Pro seed starting kit on top and kind of trapped the heat with cardboard and a trash bag. I guestimate the temp to be around 75-80 F. I think this is accurate because the room temp is about 70 degrees and the bottom black pan from the jiffy starter is a bit warmer with heat that it is sitting on and come from the exhust fan..

Now out of the 12 I planted this was the first to spring up (more photos will follow).

Below is the photo below and... Today I put it under a jumperstart Hydrofarm light with out the protection of the plastic cover with my trusty GoPro and set a TimeLapse of a photo every 60 seconds. I will update this with a video time lapse soon.

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This is from 1 month ago. I guess I need to take more pictures. Most have been transplanted since this picture has been taken. They are now all in my temporary greenhouse.

Here is my current picture. I guess I have a lot of starts now.

This is the first year I've grown any seeds indoors, so it's certainly been an interesting experiment! I've learned from a lot of mistakes but I'm not giving up just yet.

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Here is a link that might be useful: My Blog

I'm not a regular here, but I have a few pics of my seed starting setup. These are all from previous years, since it's a little too early up here in northern Michigan for most of my stuff.

This is my light rack. It has a fourth shelf that wasn't yet being used when I took the picture. The bottom shelf is for starts that like it cooler.

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A few flower plants --- don't know what they are.

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When the shelves get full, I start moving things out to my little (too little) greenhouse. It's not heated, so I move trays back inside during our frosty spring nights. These are all flowers of one type or another. This pic was taken in early May.

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I hope this gives you something to think about, good or bad. :)

ThinMan

Its always fun for me to see other people's set ups. Thanks for sharing.

I started quite a few things early this year. Mostly annuals, but also salad stuff that I am harvesting about once a week, and a few slow growers like onions and asparagus.

this is my main set of shelves, which is a converted closet. the styrofoam boards over the lights are intended to increase reflective light

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A few of the little guys who are about ready to get re-potted - Impatens, Lisianthus, Petunias, and Coleus.

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I have a couple of more lights suspended over a table, which has my salad, and a few geraniums and asparagus.

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And another set of shelves where some of the taller plants have moved - mostly bedding sized Dahlias, with some begonia cuttings and a few different kinds of basil.

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I seem to have to add a few more lights every year - right now I have room for 36 standard flats.

Growing and overwhelmed.... Jack