How to grow succulents indoors w/ iGrowtek 2ft full spectrum LED: unboxing and testing *IT WORKS
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2024
- Okay so this is the first vid of the year. I am doing an unboxing of the iGrowtek 2 foot full spectrum LED grow light setting it up in my new office (We just moved into a new house) and sowing some seeds to kick it off. Took me 3 days to finish editing and getting around to uploading it. I already have seed pots germinating so I'd say its a success. This light comes with a stand and at 2 ft its perfect for almost anyone wether you live in a home with a garage or a studio apartment in Manhattan this could actually get you started growing cacti from seed at home. I gotta be frank growing plants from seed is almost better than sex (*Almost) but seriously its so gratifying and you get plants at the price of seeds and patience. Anyway I am sowing a number of different genera not just cacti but agaves as well as various Mesembs.... lets see how this little LED performs. I plan on testing various LED light setups and soils / strategies etc moving forward as well as doing updates on the seedlings as they progress. Let's do this shit together!
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Looking forward to more CQ greenhouse tours in 2024!
They are coming! Thanks dude!
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I enjoy these videos. Very informative and it gives people like me more confidence to go out and plant our own seeds. Thank you and I’m looking forward to your next video.
That is really cool. Stoked on that. Yes absolutely experiment and try and grow them from seed. It’s fun and worth the wait. Thank you!
That’s what’s up hunter!
Keep em coming
More to come! Thanks Erik!
Love watching your videos and learning! Never thought of putting soil on oven might try that
Thank you glad you enjoyed them, I only put soil used for sewing seeds in the oven. Otherwise it’s just out of the bag.
I need a new grow light too. Perfect timing.
Nice video. I've been growing indoors this past year and use 3 20W LED strips and lost the orange, red on my variegated asterias, so I maybe low on light still.
Add a fan for moving air or you will get fungus, black spots showing up on your cactus. This also helps them dry out.
I got the individual lids covering pot and put them in a tray I fill with water when it dries out in the first few months after germinating.
😮 hey Hunter, I enjoy your shows very much I am going cactus and learning like you have. I’m not doing so well but I’m trying hard I’m wondering I heard that you have a hunter pot are you selling them and what for would you let me know I may consider buying on, I have some great cactus and I need a knife pot
Hi Pauline shoot me an email ill have a batch of pots ready soon and would be happy to help you acquire one. cactusquest5000@gmail.com
YES
I love sand as a top dressing too for the same reasons, you will see almost no fungus no algae, specially if you are applying the baggie method.
🤞🏻Hoping for no fungi or algae this round! Wish me luck!
@@CactusQuest I believe that you have good hands with cacti anyways jajajaja I switch method becouse the baggie tend to give mold problems a lot and not species tolerate high humidity after germination. Now I use germinators with plastic leads and start to open them one week after germination, air circulation prevents those problems too!
@@mcactus6210 right on. I have basically been removing things out of the bags if and when the mold / algae become unstoppable. That’s been the only way to stop it. Drying it out. I’m gonna experiment this year with a hand full of different techniques. Growing some new genera and want to see what works best. Love hearing how other people are doing it.
@@CactusQuest isnt 2,5hours in the oven a bit too much? also temperature wise how hight do you go for the sterilisation (im doing it at 80C for about 40' in an already soaked soil for better heat distribution)
@@kyriakosbastas8817 well this is my first time baking it. I have microwaved the soil in the past. I want to say for 2 or 3 minutes. after looking online and talking with a handful of people. I seemed to get a different approach from everyone. I have not ever used soil right out of the bag before I usually mixed up an inorganic substrate and soaked in fungicide first. This time I tried the oven. I don't know tbh if its too hot for too long. I guess time will tell with the outcomes. I did however stir it around the soil was a bit damp and so I mixed it once about halfway through the time in the oven. Soaked it afterwards in distilled water.
How’s life?! useful unboxing! Cactus!
Good, thank you for asking. Sort of took and unplanned step back from making videos for a couple months but I’m back again!
I wish you posted more ! I love your educational cactus videos your awesome man , keep up this amazing work you got going on !!
I def will be this year. Seeds are already germinating from this last batch - and many more to come. I’ll def be uploading more consistently - appreciate you!
Where can I get the POTS??
How long do you leave them under the light? Do cactus need any darkness to sleep or do their thing to drink water at night? Thanks.
Great question. Typically I will leave them under the lights for about 3 mos. Then I bring them into my outdoor greenhouse. I am based in socal so around march or April is when they will come out.
@CactusQuest I'm in socal too. No greenhouse though yet. Thanks.
Recommendations on sourcing seeds 🤔
@mesagarden is a great seed source
@bakersuccs on instagram actually sells a lot of astro seeds (cultivars n stuff I think) Did a vid with him last year. cool dude. check him out
I’ve been struggling with getting Copiapoas to germinate .. it’s only the copiapoas everything else I sow grows …
How fresh are the seeds? I know sometimes things that are fresher have better germ rates. I have had poa seeds germinate in the pot while the original seedlings are already a year old.
@@CactusQuest they are from mesa so I’m sure they are as fresh as can be .a guy that’s on a group I’m in says they get great germination from mesa so I’m sure it’s me but I’ve been using old rain water that’s not clean I think that could be one of many problems I also get so impatient that I open the bag where my seeds are germinating that could be a problem to but I’m learning everyday especially from you guys..
What is the turbinicarpus species in the thumbnail?
Is there a reason you aren't using 3% Hydrogen Peroxide this time (asking having a mini panic attack since I literally just followed your previous videos tonight on hundreds of Copiapoa, Ariocarpus, Astrophytum varieties each tonight 😢) since i lost a try to damping off my last go around.
Please tell me you didn't develop issues from using it.
Where can you find a legit source of seeds?
What is the cactus at the 45 sec mark?
Mammillaria laui v subducta a little gem.
@@CactusQuest thank you. That is a gorgeous cactus. I am going to find one now.
How do you know that it works if you just set it up? Your light is too far from the plants and its only 10w so probably around 1200-1500 lumens max and that's not enough. A good 2ft led strip uses 24w and has multiple rows of leds and even then you need at least double up those for proper lighting. I have been using over 16 led strip lights for more than 2 years now.
I recorded the video 3 days ago. I have seeds already germinating. Stuff started to germinate the first day.
@@CactusQuest Btw it's nothing personal and I dont doubt your botanical knowledge. Just your growlight knowledge. I get so annoying when I see plant tubers recommend lights that they dont really know anything about when there's better options on the market, and without even testing it! (3 days is nothing). Give it at least a month or even a year
why don't you make your own UA-cam channel and bless us all with your endless knowledge on grow lights - apparently UA-cam needs you.....
@@CactusQuest Wow what a reply, my guy. I'm just trying to help your plants and prevent your viewers from buying an overpriced and underpowered light. There's already many better channels here on youtube that actually test and teach about growlights with many years of experience, you would know that if you did your research. You dont even know if the diodes are going to start burning off or dimming in a month, it's been 3 days! Congrats for germination but you'll soon find out that it only bright enough for maybe a snake plant, zz plant or some pothos! lol Anywho, viewer lost!
@@CactusQuestlight amount doesn’t have anything to do with germination, they use almost exclusively just humidity
Next time just right the name on the ziploc bag 😊
great idea - haha why didn't I think of that.
First lol
YES!!! Hahaha. You made it!