My Greenhouse Construction Thread (picture heavy)

[MoonShadows]

I guess you can transplant them outside at any size...mother nature grows them naturally....but most articles I have read is they stand a better chance of survival if you wait 1 - 2 years. They can grow in the cone-tainers for a year.

Yes, the cone-tainers allow the root to grow down deep rather than wrapping around a smaller container...better for the tree in the long run.

 

[waretrop]

Transplanting is tough on them. When you do it, remember this in years to come, do it gingerly.....

 

[MoonShadows]

The temperature dropped to around 30 last night...lower than I thought it was going to drop....so, here I am outside with a flashlight at 3:00 am this morning checking on my seeded flats in the greenhouse. It wasn't much warmer in there, so I got an electric heater and turned it on. It brought the temperature up to about 42 after an hour and a half.

I'm not going to germinate seeds that way, and I am not going to run that heater full steam all night in that big greenhouse! I refuse to buy seeds mats...so expensive and only used for a short time. This afternoon, I am going to try and make some kind of tent over the bench where I have the flats that will let the light through during the day and help hold a bit of heat at night. I have a big roll of that clear plastic wrap that your wrap pallets with when shipping (think gigantic Saran Wrap!). If I can fashion something out of that, I will put some of those portable work lights (think aluminum dome like the chick warmer fixtures) underneath the bench to keep the flats warmer and let some warmer air pass through the bench slats into the tent.