lentils.. indoor grow

[Riz]

salam..

i got hold of some "mungh daal" thought ill try to germinate them indoors.. and hopefully grow on under tube lights, maybe just a few plants, just to see how big i can get them , hopefully next season i can grow them outdoors...

i used a plastic germination tray and planted the seeds in rows.. gave them a light sprinkle of water, covered with some cling film and left next to a radiator..

[Riz]

so impressed, from seed to germination within 24 hours..

[Riz]

great germination rate....

[Riz]

i will "prick" the little baby seedlings out of the tray, select the ones i need and "cull" the rest of them, and then re-plant the seedlings into individual pots and then stick them under some 35watt tube lights...

[Riz]

first set of leaves unfolding......

[Riz]

so i only wanted around 8 seedlings and the rest i was going to get rid off, so i potted the seedlings i wanted...

[Sakeena]

thats was fast!! :)

what do you mean by "prick" and "cull" not used to gardening terms :o

[Riz]

hi sakeena.

pricking out just means using a spatula or similar, to remove the baby seedling and re-potting in another pot like i did.. and culling just means discarding the rest of the seedlings.. Basically i didn't know if the germination rate was going to be 100% so i germinated a lot of seeds, so i only wanted around 8 plants, and now i have them i culled the rest of the seedlings.

[Riz]

salaam everyone...

latest on the lentil seedlings, as you can see the 2nd set of leaves are developing..



as you can see the roots grow rapid....

[Riz]

latest pic added a teardrop amount of tomato feed into a pint of water and gave the lentil seedlings a drink

its the first time i am growing lentil indoors ill post a pic of the lights i use later. i think this "mung daal" plant is going to be stretchy and spindly..

[Riz]

hi..

the latest pic taken today 7th jan 2008

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC07144.jpg










maybe i need to repot eh :)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC07166.jpg

[Riz]

another update..

i have re potted one of them in a bigger pot......

[Riz]

another quick update, the lentil plants are flowering, i saw two little yellow flowers growing from the side branches, so ill see in the next few days if the little flower opens up..

here is a pic

ps,, you cant see the flowers in this pic.. ill try getting a better pic later on

small flower 2nd pic

[Riz]

here is a pic of the pods and some seeds that i harvested, i grew it in a seedling pot very tiny.... :)

[~Obsidian~]

Thats great!! Have you tried any others since then?

[Riz]

Thats great!! Have you tried any others since then?

I wanted to but ive had no room to grow indoors unless i clean out one of the spare bedrooms, i could have grown the mung daal outdoors this season but i was growing a lot of other things, but i do have an indoor chili grow under 2 x400 watt HPS lights.

here is a link to it http://www.muslimgrower.com/discussionforum/showthread.php?t=36

[farah]

Cor, they grew well! Is this topic really from 2008 though? If so you must be getting plenty of lentils from it still in the summer time.