SIX Reasons Your Seedlings Are Leggy + Solutions
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- When starting seeds indoors it is very common to get leggy seedlings. In this video, we will discuss the top six reasons your plants are stretching like the rubber band man.
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This is my go to video for a refresher on growing from seeds. Thanks Luke!
Excellent video! Thank you for making the lighting requirements easier to understand.
Thank you Luke that was the best lighting tutorial I've come across. 🌱🌻🕊
Thanks for another video packed with great information! We appreciate the time you take to share your knowledge with others.
Finally! I've been looking for this information to solve my seedling problem. So happy I found this video. Thank you!
I sooo needed this... Thank you-Thank you!! I have had these very issues!! This year, I hope to be ready for spring 🙏
That was a lot of good information Luke. Thanks for sharing it.
EXCELLENT information! Thank you so very much- old time gardener and still continue to learn.
Thank you for explaining in depth the lighting for seedlings. I've been going crazy trying to give them enough light.
I have learned so much already. I paused the video to say thank you. I am challenging myself to build my 4 raised beds and 3 flower beds by seed this year.
Thought I needed all that. Thanks for clarifying. Watch you all the time. Glad you are in Michigan.
Wow, that was a really helpful upload. I had been misusing my grow mat and will be calculating the correct light height now. Thank You.
Thank you for the information about how far to keep seedlings from light fixtures and how to figure that out!
Excellent presentation of info that is generally considered too technical and boring to merit attention. Thanks for making it easy to understand. Well done! ~ Lisa
Great information all in one video! I've been a fairly successful seed starter for several years, but I'd never seen such a comprehensive discussion of lumens and kelvin. I will be making sure that the new lights I just purchased are the best for my seedlings. Thank you!
Great video Luke. I always learn a few things from each of your videos. You should see the amount of notes I have lol. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. 😊
Thank you. I love the way you explain things.
Thank you for making videos like these, 😄😄 you've inspired me to start my own gardening channel 😃
Thank you! I just moved to zone 6 or 7 from Florida. I have always planted outside, even my baby trays. So, this is very timely! I used to watch you, but in Florida, I watched David the Good. But now, I need cold weather advice, so, thank you. Thank you.
Luke thanks so much for the leggy plants video. I planted spinach, which is in a garden bed on wheels. I cover it due to the cold weather but I noticed it started being leggy. I try to keep it watered. But I noticed it was dry before too. This info really helped!
I am a newbie to your channel & am very happy to have found it. I've been looking & reading & trying to decide what type of grow lights to buy as this is my first time venture into starting seeds. This was very helpful, thank you!
Oh my Gosh, you just solved my problem! I thought I was doing everything right and I pretty much did, except that I kept my heat mat on for days after the seeds germinated. Will be turning it off right now! Thank you so so much for a great video! Will be watching the video on the proper use of heat mats next. I really appreciate your advice and great videos.
Luke thank you so much!! Just what I needed 🤗🤗 Is my first year I’m growing from seed!! I got all my seed from your shop!! Impressive varieties!! God Bless you!! 🙌🏻🦋🙌🏻 Keep teaching us!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great info. Its my first year completed, and it was successful. Your videos help a lot. I started last year with starts, but this year I'll try starting seeds.
Your videos are very detailed with excellent information well explained. Thank you so much.
This video was prefect for me. I am a new gardener growing my first lettuce plants right now and they look exactly like that! Thank you for the info!
Great tips! Thanks Luke.
SO helpful! Thank you!
THANK YOU!!!!! So helpful! 🎉
My Lettuce seeds I purchased from you 2 weeks ago sprouted in 3 days just like you said they would. Cold season crops growing outdoors here in Florida.
Thank you Luke! Great information. Some of it I knew but some of it was very helpful. I will have non-leggy seedlings this year! 😁
I've had the best luck when planting the latest possible in the season and let them harden into the winter
This was very helpful! I left the heat mat on!
Really appreciate this, Luke! Thank you so much! 👍
Excellent post! Thank you.
Thanks 💚 Luke. I'm having this problem with my spinach seeds.
Luke, I have had pretty good luck "replanting" leggy seedlings by pricking the plant out complete with the roots and replanting it deeper into the cell or into a bigger cell. The trick is to get the stem (it should be pretty flexible) down deeper in the cell without kinking it too much and packing the potting mix in around it giving more the plant more support. In some cases, Ive looped the stem down into the soil after burrowing out a bigger hole! This worked especially well for my tomato plants. I had no idea about grow lights and had spindly almost everything! This trick saved me a bunch of plants. This year, I'm armed with twin tube 24W 6500K 3000 Lumen LED shop lights with the reflective surface inserts that you shared in one of your other recent videos! No leggys for me!
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you very much . Lot's of very helpful info. The lighting always confused me, so I really appreciate you explaining all of that.
Well explained, Luke, thank you. One of my son’s name is Luke and he likes to help me in the garden.
This was very informative, thank you
This was very instructive. I though that I had planted the seeds not deeply-enough. Now, I see that it is probably a matter of not having the seedlings close enough to the light. I just moved them closer.
This was very helpful, thank you.
Great info, now I know what I did wrong last year. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much. This was very thorough information. I've never used grow lights and I do have leggy seedlings. I've got the fan I've got the right lights I've got the right moisture. I've got the right soil but I think they are too far away from the lights for the strength of lumens so I'm going to move them up and see if I can salvage them. Thanks again. 😃👍🏻
Anyone making videos, should explain things like you! You didn’t assume your viewer knew what you were talking about. You broke it down in a simple and understandable and informative way! Thanks for making this!
Thank you so much Luke! I have been taking notes this year. Super excellent content as always.
Great video! You explained it well and it was easy to understand!
Thanks for this video! We had seedlings already sprouted in our greenhouse when we had that really cold freeze in December. We were frantic to keep temps above freezing and did all we could including putting the seedlings on the heat mat. That saved them the first night when the interior temp went into the 20s. not all the plants were so fortunate. I realize I now need to unplug the mat. Also, we were not sure how long to run the grow lights since it is a greenhouse, but we compromise and run it in late afternoon to extend the daylight, essentially giving them 16 hours of light.
We bent 20 ft poles into a 32ft long hop house w/ roll ups.
Any help you could get me in selecting layout for lights would be much appreciated.
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Judge accordingly however, our weakening magnetosphere or too much ash up here...
Best of luck with much skill all....
Thank you so much! I needed to know to turn the heat mat off after the seeds sprout. I wondered if the heat would affect the plant but I live in the Phoenix AZ area so 90 degrees is nothing around here.
Thank you for this helpful video! I have definitely made a few of these mistakes.
This was a great video - thanks for doing it...
Brilliant, thank you and just in time.
Wow! Great video. I thought I was doing everything right. I had a 2ft long CFL with a sun bulb and heat mat. What I didn't know was there was not enough light and the heat mat was on after germinating. Here I am wondering why my seedlings are leggy and the cukes were long and thick, but fell over! Now I know that out of the six reasons for leggy seedlings, I was violating five of them! I'm very sad, but thankful for this video.
Thank you
you explain everything really clear. Now I understand better why I have some leggy plants
I prefer this video to all the rest I've seen. I like how there's a list of factors that affects stretching.
Thank you. This helps a lot
This was so extremely helpful! I’m still new to growing seedlings. I started last year and had some luck but wasn’t as good as it should have been. I had purchased bulbs from homedepot and they just were not strong enough. This year I purchase lights from Gardner’s Supply. Fingers crossed things are more productive this year! Thank you again for putting out all of this information!
I got the 4ft full spectrum grow lights from home depot, about $70 ea and they are so bright and the seedlings are loving it!!! There are switches for 3 kinds of light but idk what that is for ( wish I did) theres red light blue light and white...but I just leave them all on!
Thanks for shedding some light on leggy seedlings Luke. I had issues with that last season. With your help, I feel I can grow bigger this upcoming season.
"Shedding some light" - nice pun for this video.
I know it’s silly - but I love that intro music. For me, gardening is relaxing and that ditty just sets the right tone for me. Good info also. Thank you!
So glad you like it! We love it too. :)
Thanks Luke!
Leggy tomatoes are awesome, Luke, and you can transplant plant deep and create stronger roots. I intentionally do it because I love thick tomatoes. Adventitious roots, peppers have them too. Please review that with viewers 🙏. Most in the nightshade family can do this.
I'm still fairly new at gardening, so i don't want to give bad advice, but I have noticed that my tomatoes that got a little stressed tasted better than the ones from the other plant that seemed healthier. Strange, right?
@@strawberrymage8593 I know mint likes growing slow, add too much fertilizer and it gets too big too fast it loses a lot of essential oils. Maybe the stress causing the plant to grow slower makes more tasteful fruit?
@@xxtacowarriorxx6440 possibly. It's interesting, right? :D
He literally does talk about that in this video.
I thought I was the only one who does this. I also let potatoes sprout to 4 to 6 inches before they go into the ground.
There needs to be a set, clearly marked standard on LED lights. I just purchased new LEDs and came to the conclusion to get one the stated the most blue light over red. Choose the whitest light with approximately 4-6K. Blue light is for vegetation and red for flowering. Thanks for mentioning color as it makes choosing easier. It can get complicated and I chose to look at the color spectrum. Many manufacturers won’t state color and Kelvins which makes choosing very difficult.
How is it working out? I just got a 5,000 lumen 4K light for my seedlings. They seem to like it.
I picked up a HLG 300 blue spec refurbished for seedling/veg after learning what blue light does. My plants are much shorter and fuller as expected during veg.
thank you very useful information about agriculture and can be an inspiration for my farm
Request, please consider doing a video of growing some veggies like cherry tomatoes, lettuces, spinach& potatoes etc indoors throughout the winter months, in containers.
Thank again Luke! You're a wealth of information & your videos are always such an enjoyable part of my day!!
Blessings to you!
This is the best and most useful explanation I've lighting I've seen, thank you!
Can you please post links to your light fixtures and bulbs? Or add them to your Amazon shop?
Great information on lighting!
I really enjoy your videos. Thanks! Funny thing is I set up saltwater aquariums and I look for similar lighting. Metal Halide, mercury vapor or a set of VHO florescent were all there was when I first started working with reef tanks. LEDs for the win.
Thanks for the great information. 🥰
Mate I Wish I'd found this Vid a long time ago. Absolutely Gr8 Presentation
So much information very well done. Cheers
So helpful. Thanks!!
Thanks for the info. I planted my seeds on Sunday in plastic containers with the lids on. Checked on them today and they sprouted already 3 days later. Some are leggy. I'm like wtf it hasn't been 7 days yet. Just out them outside for some sunlight since there was still condensation inside the containers so doubt they need more water.
Good tips, i am a beginning gardener and am growing seedlings in my dining room in front of an east facing window. I have 2 trays of seedlings, most are leggy some are not. My grow lights are set to come on for 8 hours a day and a fan on low speed blowing over them. After watching this video I think my issue is not watering enough and now maybe i should increase the time the lights are on.
Very helpful video! Thank you.
I have learned so much from your videos!
Well presented thanks
Thanks, I learned a few new things.
Great info Luke
Great stuff!
I DID learn something new. Thank you!
Excellent! Thankyou!
Thanks for sharing. Makes alot of sense. But i was growing them outside in a 40 percent shade house. But i think the tree nearby cut out the sunlight too quick and the seedlings didn't get enough sunlight. But will definitely try again keeping in mind some of your tips. Will move the shade house away from the tree. Thanks Bobby from South Africa.
This was very informative. I’m rather knew to this and it was so helpful. Thank you!
This really does help, thank you. Leggy sprouts are my #1 problem, and I really don't have room to fail at growing a garden this year. Thank you so much!
My number 1 problem causing leggy seedlings in past years was having my grow lights to far above the trays.
@@joemachismo6594 This is the main cause. After years of sprouting I keep my starters just inches below a 4 foot worksop light with 2 - 40 watt tubes. Works like a charm. They handle what heat is there but I do have to water a little more often.
@Kevin Russell New to starting seeds indoors and my spinich is getting leggy. I'll move the light a little closer. Ty!
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This was very helpful. I was making 3 of these mistakes
Thank you
I had about 75 leggy Kohlrabi seedlings and I just buried them 3/4 of the way down leaving a 1/2" or so exposed below the leaves. I planted them a couple weeks ago and they seem to be doing good. They're growing slowly due to weather but they are still alive.
Thanks for the infomation. I will try it.
Just asked this question on today's video, and this pops up. Awesome
Hope you enjoyed it!
Cheap metal shirt hangers are great to re-use too. Very flexible and can easily change the height.
Thank you for sharing your information. . Very helpful. Ugh, I just had to transplant some leggy seedlings.. moved them closer to the lights 🤞🤞
Hi Luke, thanks again for another great video! I see that you’re growing your seeds in the garage in Michigan. What’s the temperature of your garage? What temperature do you recommend growing seedlings in??
I’m planning to try mine in the basement under a seedling heating mat, but am not sure they’ll like the air temperature in the 50s-60s in the cool basement.
Thanks!!
Tx is the diameter of a fluorescent tube where x is the number of 1/8's of an inch it is. T5 is 5/8 or 0.625". T8 is 8/8 or 1". T12 is 12/8 or 1.5" diameter. T4 are half inch almost mini bulbs. T5 are often HO or high output. T12 VHO (very high output) used to be very common grow lights for aquariums. T8 was the standard for decades for house, shop, and business lighting but they were eventually phased out for T5s and now LEDs are getting to be everywhere.
The most dangerous aspect of some old T5s was mercury contamination when broken. Mfgs addressed that as the tubes were becoming more common in homes by using different chemicals.
Awesome video, thanks Luke! There are Watt to lumen calculators, but here's a quick summary ( 1 watt to lumens: [Incandescent: 15 lumens], [Halogen: 23 lumens], [CFL: 50 lumens], [LED: 90 Lumens]. For example, if you have an old inefficient 60 Watt incandescent bulb, the calculation would be: 60 (watts) * 15 (incandescent lumens per watt) = 900 lumens. Two would only be 1800 lumens, and 3 would be 2700 lumens. You would probably want 3 of them to get above the 2000 lumens for incandescent bulbs.
Great info, Thank you!
Thank you!