General Discussion & Chat: My Winter Basement Garden, 5 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
I will take pics of my hibiscus seedlings tommorrow to show you, and of the wild poinsetta Sandy sent me also up and growing in their little bottle green houses.. I do check them every day, all over the house in every window I have bottles in the windows. some times I shake them a bit to get the water back down to the bottom, the condensation some times takes a while to drop down. when I am ready to transplant, I slit the bottoms a bit for drainage, add more soil to the top of the first set of leaves, and let them get stronger, then I move them to their summer spots either in the ground or in their tubs and pots and baskets. easy peasy. I spray them when they are used to the open air, with a light fert water spray, and dust the seeds with cinnoman. no lights at all at night. Here is a baby woodrose morning glory, still in its water bottle planter, sunk into a pistachio bag..now it is just hanging up on a wall downstairs, where the lights are.
the planter in the middle holds a lobata plant, started in a water bottle, and sunken into a pot and trellis.. I have sent this away to a loverly DG'r this am, she just lost her doggie, and felt she might need a cheer me up.
third pic is not real clear, but it is my buddah belly, started last winter in a waterbottle planter.
4th pic is the transplanted seedlings in cups now, under lights, since the windows are full of newly planted seeds.. I just keep rotating plants, soon these plants will go into a hanging basket for the front vine area. when I am out of bottles, I use these cups and plastic baggies zipped up around them, works the same.
Last pic is a different trial, it is a plastic tub with clear wide tape over the top.. it works.. but does not fit on the window.