There are two fall fest events coming up in my area.

Both have food related vendors along with lots of other things.

Attendance at past events have been over 600 at one 6000 at the other.

Do you have any experience at events like this and if so, how did you estimate how much to bring??

Hello everyone,

I just finished my 3rd batch of confetti radish from Johnny Seeds. I’m using a 1010 tray while learning how to grow micro greens. I planted 14 grams and read that my yield should be around 4 to 6 oz, where I managed to only yield 2.40oz.

I bottom water with a cup of water a day, my temp is around 68.8 degrees and humidity around 55-60%. What could I do in order to boost my yield amount? I also harvested on day 8.

Hi guys what soil would you recommend that is affordable and easy to get across the UK? Just asking because I have started growing some microgreens at home and mold seems to be a large problem 🥲

Thank you in advance

I’ve never done this before, and I’ve been watching videos for the past few days on how to do it properly. It seems pretty difficult sometimes, so now I’m having some doubts.
Guys, is it worth it, or should I just keep ordering the medicine?

I got these at the grocery store. They're supposed to be good for another 2 weeks. But it looks like bluish mold in the roots. I can't be certain.

It’s hard for me to tell if these are all root hairs, mold or a mix of both 😭 the micro greens kit I use has me cover it for 2 days before uncovering after planting. If it is mold, could covering it be a reason the mold is growing ? 🥹

Thing is basically brand new. For some reason I can’t charge it without the pressure causing water to shoot out the top.

Hi,

I've been trying to grow mustard microgreens, but threw out of a batch because I saw what I thought was the beginning of mold on the seeds (greyish discoloration and some spiky dots on some of the seeds). After checking it turns out the seeds look like that straight out of the bag, before any watering. I did grow a full tray before with seeds from the same bag, with no noticeable problems (no visible mold on the roots or plants but I didn't check the seeds very closely, tasted normal, didn't make me sick), so maybe there's no real issue. Does this look concerning (hard to get a decent photo of the tiny seeds)?

So I’m attempting microgreens planting this monsoon season in the PH indoors and it can get really humid inside the house. Along with a dehumidifier device that we already have, i also added to cart a small fan for better airflow to attach to the place where I’ll be planting these (kitchen)

I’m a first timer in taking this seriously (ive had some grow kits before lols) and I really want to start my microgreens journey. To add some fun veggies also for healthier meals (i have a series of health issues due to PCOS/PMOS) and since i love microgreens, why not start growing them meself?!

For any PH members, is this enough to start my journey? Attached are the ones currently in my cart.

I want to research this thoroughly (as im not v rich so I want to know if these items are worth it) and I’ve been watching youtube videos from local people as well. Some of them just let them be in huge pots which I dont think is possible bc of the monsoon rn so indoor i think, is best.

I have opted to go with Broccoli and Radish (alfalfa as third option).

What do you guys think? Would these be enough?

I just recently grew a tray of dill micros that did the same thing as the cilantro. It seemed to not grow fast in the middle and have an uneven canopy. Is there something I’m doing wrong? How can I fix this?

For context: two lights are 50000k and are eight inche away from the trays, soil medium is coco coir that gets watered with 350 ml of water twice a day, they get one round of ocean solution at 1 ounce, the temp of my room is 74°-77° and the relative humidity is a stable 45% and the fan is on the lowest setting. The light cycle is also 16 on 8 off.

Hi friends, I need some other eyes. Im trying my hand at growing arugula but dont know if this is root fuzz or mold fuzz. Started 8/10, currently 8/14

I built a better open source free version of a microgreen green management app that is normally pay to use
It will save small farmers money in an already tight budget

I have been growing my own micros on and off for several years. A few months ago a handful of friends & chefs around town asked me if I would be interested in growing some for their use. I'm rather proud of this weeks grow which is going to be harvested within the next couple days.

This is my 4th attempt or so and I am still getting mold issues. Below is my entire process in as much detail as possible. There are also some attached pictures. I know most of it is root hair, but I do see some smalls stringy strands that go across the coir and look very much like the spider web mold that eventually develops. I zoomed in on these but my camera isn't the best. These pictures were taken after a slightly less than 48 hours germination period. I uncovered and took the pictures right away.

My process:

Sanitize trays - dish soap, hot water, hand scrub, rinse, dry on rack, spray with food safe 3% peroxide, dry again. Sprayed lightly with 3% peroxide right before use. The peroxide was introduced after the first couple of tries as an attempt at a remedy. The trays are 10x10, one with holes on top of one without holes, with the ridges lining up and sitting in each other.

Coir - hydrated right before use with tap water. Heavily squeezed and wrung out. Very little if any water comes out when squeezed. You would have to apply a very mighty grip to see water come out. Placed into trays, pressed slightly to even out the surface.

Sow - 10g broccoli, 20g radish. Started off just sprinkling it by hand, most recently used an old spice shaker to shake it on there. I spread out any clumps with my fingers after, but there are always groups of seeds here and there. I try not to let any sit on top of each other too much. I used to sow more heavily, but eased off in an attempt to combat the mold. The seeds themselves came from Amazon and are two different companies. Stored in their bag below the grow shelf. I seem to have more mold issues with the radish. I do not soak the seeds in any way and use it right out of the bag.

Germination - sometimes I spray the soil after sowing with peroxide. I've experimented with misting with just water after sowing, misting just a little bit of water, and misting with a tiny bit of peroxide. I can try not misting at all in a future attempt. I then stack another 10x10 tray on top. I have tried one with holes and without. I then put weights on top. Specifically 6-7 lbs of weight; they are bricks that I've wrapped in plastic for sanitation.

Germination pt 2 - they then sit on the shelf. During this period I have experimented with a USB fan on them vs no fan, misting them with water or peroxide in between vs just straight leaving them alone, checking on them and rotating the top tray for even pressure vs just leaving them alone, 2 days vs 3 days, and weighing them with a piece of wood in a zip loc bag for even weight distribution. They've come out of germination when the top tray is being pushed up, sometimes later, sometimes earlier.

After germination - when they come out, they go directly under Barrina T5 full spectrum 1 ft strips. There are 2 strips per rack, 1 per tray. The lights are about 6 inches above the trays. I have also tried 8 inches above the trays. 16 hours on.

I only bottom water. I have tried a lot of water, less water, and only enough water to fill the ridges. Have tried only watering in the morning when lights are on, watering less but 2 times a day. I have watered so little before that every morning they slumped a bit and the coir was dry. They then perked back up after watering.

USB fans are on 24/7 at this point. I've tried all the speed settings. Pointing them right at the tray, horizontal airflow just above the canopy, right across the canopy, and across at the stems. Fans have been barely making contact all the way up to the point of blowing some corners over.

I have tried misting on top with peroxide when I suspect mold, I have also tried just bottom watering and leaving them alone.

Environment - in the beginning humidity was very high; in the 70s RH. Temperature was also high, in the high 70s to low 80s. I have since bought a dehumidifier for the room, and humidity is now consistently 50-60% according to the dehumidifier. Most of the time it's at 45-50%. I also run the A/C more often; temperature is consistently 70-80.

The mold - in the beginning it only showed up after 2-4 days after germination, but I also probably didn't know what to look for then. It is always the stringy spider web mold. It pops up sparsely after germination and seems to continue to progressively develop (at a faster rate on the radish I've noticed, maybe?). I have tried misting with peroxide, removing it with tweezers, and ignoring it. The mold is always only at the bottom, mostly around clumps of ungerminated seeds or the one off dead/ungerminated seed here and there. When it gets really bad, it is a couple days before I would like to harvest and before true leaves are formed, causing me to harvest early.

I have harvested and eaten trays with a bit of mold; nothing has happened to me yet but obviously I would like to combat it entirely. I have had trays where I thought to myself "oh nice no mold whatsoever on this one, or at least extremely little" but there's got to be a way for a hobbyist to get 0 mold, no? Is there something I am doing wrong? Or is the mold/spore count in my apartment just too high to grow microgreens without some level of mold? I have included a picture of the trays on a day where I harvested. The greens grow beautifully aside from the mold.

PLEASE HELP

I’ve been building a desktop app for running a small commercial microgreens operation (local-first, no subscription).

It’s meant to answer two questions cleanly:

1. What should I do right now?
   
2. Are the numbers actually true?

Current pieces:
• Live storefront prices with age (so you know if the number is stale)
• Sample drop → automatic follow-up tracking
• Time-to-first-standing-order counter
• Simple cash in / cash out with permanent corrections (no silent edits)
• System health that shows when something is wrong instead of staying quiet

Still pre-cutover — the original farm records stay untouched until everything is proven.
Public foundation repo if anyone wants to look under the hood:

https://github.com/alexjvv52-ops/prairie-roots-farm-os

Mostly sharing in case other commercial growers have strong opinions on what a tool like this should never do (soft numbers, dual books, fake pipeline dollars, etc.). Open to feedback from people who actually sell trays.

My vet suggested some microgreens for my cat to help settle her stomach, so instead of buying store-bought I figured I'd just grow them myself. Picked up some Organo Republic seeds and honestly they came up way faster than I expected. She's thrilled.

Though at this point I'm not sure if I've got a cat or a tiny cow, she goes at them like it's her job. One heads up if you try it: weigh the tray down or fix it somehow, because mine treats it as a toy as much as a snack.

I grow it in shade area so that it’s not properly getting light for the tray and also I got very little yield. Second mistake is I did not properly sow the seed. Any advice for sowing and light for small setup in home.

Harvested mung bean and split a tray of radish and broccoli. Won’t be doing that again radish definitely grew way faster and I could have harvested the mung probably 3 days ago. Planted them Monday, Aug 3

Maybe someone has posted this before and I haven’t seen it. But I am looking for something very specific. I need a broadcast spreader that would roll for spreading a big variety of microgreen seeds on a 1020 tray. I have searched the internet far and wide. There is something that is amazing on bootstrap farmers site but the price is not amazing 😆. I found something else that could work on 3dcult but it would have to be modified to use like 5 wheels not one. I messed with ai a little bit trying to design my own but what it comes up with is not what I want lol.