When I'm starting flowers for Church (Easter), I turn them 45 degrees everyday, and they grow fairly straight. Every plant that does well in the windowsill, I collect seeds from. These are the very hardiest of plants; they don't need artificial light or heat; just dirt (authentic dirt) and water and sunshine. I'm working on improving the quite-picky plants Bearbind and Elisabeth this way.catjac1975 said:Try turning the plants every week or so.
Do you mean you are successful without buying potting soil?Detlor Poultry said:When I'm starting flowers for Church (Easter), I turn them 45 degrees everyday, and they grow fairly straight. Every plant that does well in the windowsill, I collect seeds from. These are the very hardiest of plants; they don't need artificial light or heat; just dirt (authentic dirt) and water and sunshine. I'm working on improving the quite-picky plants Bearbind and Elisabeth this way.catjac1975 said:Try turning the plants every week or so.
Yep. Good old fashioned dirt. Potting soil usually has little 'things' in it that are formulated to, well I don't know, maybe fertilize or balance. But Dirt is good because it's everywhere, free, and simple. Personnaly, I don't want to have those 'things' in the soil, because, the plant's, over the generations, may grow to need those 'things'. I don't mind using peat moss, because, if I have to, I can harvest peat moss (which is everywhere. You have no idea. And it's good for potting, insulation, poultry bedding, it's great!) and I do.catjac1975 said:Do you mean you are successful without buying potting soil?