Prize007
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I have the same mix and am having a bear of a time. I learned that fish fertilizer and humidity help but not too much humidity.
Here is my experience in the event you can learn from my mistakes lol:
I tried using a mix of the same soil/cocoa coir mix that my hatchling hermann's lives in, in a planter on the window sill and it didn't take. Read on here about organic fish fertilizer so I put some of that in the soil of my next 2 simultaneous attempts, and I put a jar over the planters for humidity. Much better success but one of the jars got moldy and I trashed it. (Too much humidity?) The sprouts in the other planter grew tall so I took jar off. This made them a bit sad looking and they haven't gone leafy yet. I think the lack of constant humidity damaged some of the sprouts. But sprouts are progress!
While the sprouts sit on the window sill and mock me by not leafing, I am starting my third attempt and plan to use less seeds and take jar off once the sprouts are 2-3 inches.
As far as wheat grass goes, because I saw it mentioned above, I grow it for my cat and it is super easy! I soak seeds for 12-24 hours. Then put them in jar with a mesh lid, swish with water, drain and store upside down daily by window until seeds start to sprout. Once they sprout I tap the jar so they collect on mesh and put a wet paper towel ball under the mesh, while keep the jar stored upside down to keep humidity in. In a about a week you get full grown wheat grass.
I attached pics for reference. If you figure out how to successfully grow the testudo mix indoors let us know plz! I normally have a lite green thumb but this mix in winter is proving to be quite a challenge!
Here is my experience in the event you can learn from my mistakes lol:
I tried using a mix of the same soil/cocoa coir mix that my hatchling hermann's lives in, in a planter on the window sill and it didn't take. Read on here about organic fish fertilizer so I put some of that in the soil of my next 2 simultaneous attempts, and I put a jar over the planters for humidity. Much better success but one of the jars got moldy and I trashed it. (Too much humidity?) The sprouts in the other planter grew tall so I took jar off. This made them a bit sad looking and they haven't gone leafy yet. I think the lack of constant humidity damaged some of the sprouts. But sprouts are progress!
While the sprouts sit on the window sill and mock me by not leafing, I am starting my third attempt and plan to use less seeds and take jar off once the sprouts are 2-3 inches.
As far as wheat grass goes, because I saw it mentioned above, I grow it for my cat and it is super easy! I soak seeds for 12-24 hours. Then put them in jar with a mesh lid, swish with water, drain and store upside down daily by window until seeds start to sprout. Once they sprout I tap the jar so they collect on mesh and put a wet paper towel ball under the mesh, while keep the jar stored upside down to keep humidity in. In a about a week you get full grown wheat grass.
I attached pics for reference. If you figure out how to successfully grow the testudo mix indoors let us know plz! I normally have a lite green thumb but this mix in winter is proving to be quite a challenge!