{"id":7535,"date":"2017-03-22T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:27:47","slug":"starting-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/starting-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471-290x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471-290x299.jpg 290w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471-768x792.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471-992x1023.jpg 992w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-22-05-17-51-canonds6041-6471.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is time to start seeds.. even with frozen ground and a foot of snow.<br \/>\nThis is our repurposed incubator seed chamber&#8230; an old box built to hold lead acid batteries.  It is heated with a 7watt bulb, and is inside the house near a south facing window.  This is the first time we have tried this and are finding the temperature for the seeds is high and much more stable than any of our other methods.<br \/>\nFor instance, in the greenhouse, it might soar to 34C in the daytime and near 0C at night.<br \/>\nThere is a thermometer and humidity meter inside as well, and the transparent lid allows us to easily check when walking by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to start seeds.. even with frozen ground and a foot of snow. This is our repurposed incubator seed chamber&#8230; an old box built to hold lead acid batteries. It is heated with a 7watt bulb, and is inside the house near a south facing window. This is the first time we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}