How to water seedlings

[Zander]

Hi guys was just wondering how do you all water your young flower seedlings.
From below or from the top.


Regards

Zander

[veggiechicken]

If they're in trays or pots, water from below by standing them in a tray of water.............
If they're in the ground, water from the top

[Zander]

Yeah but what I mean is ,if you water from below how long would you have to leave it,until the water
Soaks up to the top of the soil to feed the roots.
I know you want to encourage the roots to go to the bottom to get a better root system.

[veggiechicken]

About 10 minutes standing in water.

[Potstubsdustbins]

You don't really want to let the water soak right the way through to the top of the compost that will only encourage mildew.

[lolie]

Hi guys was just wondering how do you all water your young flower seedlings.
From below or from the top.


Regards

Zander

How young?

I mist from the top when they're very young.

A lot depends on what medium you're using, too. I use a coir/perlite mix for starting my seeds and I start them in very small pots.

If you're going to water from the bottom, check to make sure that the water is getting high enough up the pot without the pot becoming too wet.

Once they're a couple of inches high, I tend to water from the bottom more often and start giving them very weak soluble fertiliser weekly.

[4390evans]

I waterthe soil with a little watering can

[lolie]

I waterthe soil with a little watering can

I need one of those. I use a small gravy jug when mine need more than a mist.

[boatsman]

I use a cleaned Airwick toilet spray bottle filled with rainwater as a mister for seedlings.

[Compo72]

I have sowed my seeds in ice cube trays inside a heated propagator .

I have used John innes seed compost that I have fluffed up then added a small amount of water .
In each cell in the tray I have put two thirds compost , sowed the seeds and lightly covered in moist compost

From a local agricultural merchants I bought a cheap plastic syringe.
So I can add water as needed to each cell accurately if needed

Last weekend I sowed a lot of seeds . Since then some thyme and sweet peas are germinating !

I'm no expert gardener but from previous experience it's better to keep seeds from becoming water logged !
Believe me it's easy to soak them too much

[vixylix]

From a local agricultural merchants I bought a cheap plastic syringe.
So I can add water as needed to each cell accurately if needed

Thats a brilliant idea!!

[More basil]

Just an addition to the above suggestions- anything that's in a heated propagator will dry out from below so may look moist on top but be bone dry at the bottom. So keep an eye on that while germinating and water from below or 'dunk' if needed.