Answering ALL Of YOUR Seed Starting Questions (100k Subs Celebration!)
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- I can't believe how behind I was on getting this out for you guys at this point I am almost at 200k subs! Lets do this more often because it was a lot of fun answering all your question and hopefully I will get it it out in a more timely manner next time around!
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You present plant and garden knowledge in a humble and very digestible way. you are truly a joy and blessing to watch.
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it!
Raise your hand if you've got a budding seed-starting obsession because Jacques makes it look too fun 😂🤚
Haha it is fun!
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Jacques seed starting series is my Bible! I have had nothing but success using his methods!! Congratulations on hitting 100K subs! On to 200K!!
I keep saying I’m done starting seeds for the season but somehow I started 36 plants two days ago
@@Livinwshay okay, now I feel encouraged to start more seeds! Maybe I should look at fall planting just to have the excuse😆
Jacques! It’s so wild to find you on here after a decade (thanks algorithm!). You are the same relaxed, relatable, and great teacher as you were when you were 21. So glad you have the same easy laugh too. Congrats on all you are doing!
-Tatiana, from Jimbo’s 2013
😮 Wow that's wild! I bet, like me, you wouldn't have ever guessed I would be doing this! I hope you are doing well and feel free to reach out to my email or Instagram message me if you are still in town!
@@jacquesinthegarden I wouldn’t have placed my bets on it, but it totally makes sense. 😊
yes! 100K celebration. And you are at 180K!
Me too😊
I can't believe I let this one take so long but I also wasn't expecting to be growing this fast! Thank you for joining in!
I’m glad that you have 100,000 subscribers well now 180 thousand subscribers but you’re one of my favorite garden TH-camrs especially with your friend 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 🙏
Jacques, the info you share is what I need as a new gardener. Yours is the gardening channel I go to first with any questions. Congrats on the growth of your viewership!
Glad to hear it! I will keep trying to include starting tips for all levels of gardening
Congrats Jacque!!! You deserve all the views you get. Truly an amazing TH-camr, and gardener
🙌 Thank you!
Congratulations. I’m one of your earliest subs. I’ve learned so much and had more success in my garden. Thank you for what you do.
Very glad to have you along for the ride and thanks for the thank you!
This year I finally started my garden from seed and thanks to the amazing stuff I've learned from your channel I started Nasturtium, Poppies, Forget Me Nots, Echinacea, Zinnia, Broccoli, Beets, Spinach, Onions, Marigolds, hot yellow peppers, and thyme all from seed and they are thriving. Thanks so much for all of the inspiration and smiles!
That's amazing! Great collection of different plants it can be an addiction...but the good kind!
Definitely the good kind of addiction. Seed Starting is a whole different level of fun !!!
Congratulations! You're one of my favorite presenters.
Aw man I am so excited to hear all your knowledge and stories. Your character is so true and genuine it's really refreshing to see. It's incredible and very deserved how azing your channel is.
Thank you for these kind words 🙏!
This backdrop is truly epic. Beautiful environment to shoot a video. Thanks for the information, as always!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I love that you are authentic instead of sounding like you are trying to sell something. I look forward to each of your videos. Keep on growing!
Congratulations on getting your content out where it belongs!
I imagine many people have gotten the gardening bug thanks to your information and pleasant vibe. I've been a container gardener forever and only got a proper growing space in the middle of last summer. This season I have done a ton of work to set me up for years of future gardening success. Water barrel, hot composter, raised beds, fertilizer tea, and even my very first fruit tree (plum), and berry bush (blackberries). I can finally grow things for beauty and not only for usefulness. Thank you for your excellent content.
It is the kind of "work" that is so worth it and truly doesn't feel like a chore!
Congrats Jacques from Australia! I love following your advice although it's tricky sometimes being in Melbourne. Cold & dark right now for the winter, but you've made me want to start seeds 😂
6:29 try giving your echinacea the cold treatment(like a week or two), and then sowing them in milk jugs as one would winter sown plants, but keep them well watered and in the shade. They should pop up!!! I had great success after years of trial and error. It had worked for three years now. 👍👍 Congrats, about to hit two hundred thousand in no time at all!
Maybe it truly doesn't get cold enough here for them! I will try cold treatment next, thanks!
@@jacquesinthegarden Best of luck, bud! 🤗👍👍
Getting better on seed - starting ,fell everything on put seeds straight in the ground, just use gallon milk jugs works for me and potting soils.
Just realized i hadn't been subscribed. Subbed and then looked at the number- you're already up to 185k the day after uploading your celebrating 100k video! Hell yeah, congrats :)
Wooo! Another one in the ranks!
Congrats!! Watching 8 days after you posted and you’re basically at 200k. So deserved!!! Congrats again
Congrats Jacques! Appreciate that you actually read your comments. Godspeed sir.
Will keep trying for as long as I can !
Congratulations! Would you consider creating a video on garden pests, their effects, and how to remedy the problem? Thank you for all you do. It is much appreciated!
I definitely can do that!
@@jacquesinthegarden 🙏 ❤️ 🐛 👏 excellent!!!
Great job Jacques!! Love the channel and your chill and knowledgeable style I can vibe with!!
🙌 thank you!
@@jacquesinthegarden anytime brother!! You and Kevin have inspired me to share my garden and experiences. Now just to up my production or lack there of.. lol
Jacques, I am so happy you decided to start a TH-cam channel. I can’t stress enough how your videos are very informative and I also learn something along the way. Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for joining in!
I just gotta say, the big flowering bush behind you looks like a salvia that grows around here about 24" tall. In turn, to me, you look about a foot tall. You are the first Garden Gnome that has ever talked back to me.
😂 Amazing! It is actually a Pride Of Madeira!
Congratulations, Jacques! 🎉🎉🎉 You're doing an amazing job, and you deserve to be rewarded. So happy for you! ❤
Congratulations! Your channel is one of my favorites. I’ll have to try the scarification next year with my luffa. I started 12 seeds and got a single sprout.
Oof, it definitely makes a big difference with loofa
If you tend to overwater, picture the roots in the soil. When you water the soil fills with water pushing out the oxygen. As the soil dries down much need oxygen fills the space again and the plant flourishes. Visualization really helps.
I’m always amazed when I see you separate seedlings. They look sturdy and strong. Mine never looked like that. 😆
I used diatomaceous earth on my overwintered peppers for gnats. Worked great. Just sprinkled on top of soil
I think I subscribed when you first launched? Doesn't matter - just want to say as a loyal viewer, you have grown so much: not just with subs, but also in front of the camera. AND, most importantly - selecting great content for your viewers. Thank you!
I appreciate it and I for sure remember seeing your name in the early videos!
Congrats on the 100k! I love watching your videos. I learn so much and have been showing my mom some tips too as she is the one with a garden. For now I help her with her garden but I can't wait until I have one of my own.
I love hearing your different tips and tricks as well how you design your garden. Makes my brain spin with ideas.
That is awesome, I love hearing stories like that!
Did you ever think you’d be here with over 100K subs just 3 years ago? So happy for you, and for us!
I wouldn't have even made a low stakes bet on that haha
Congrats, Jacques! You'll be doing your next ??? vid sooner than later with 182k subscribers now!
This one was particularly helpful. Last year I had pretty good results in my 9b area starting seeds outdoors (I haven't been able to figure out a way to do it in my house earlier indoors). This year, however, has been dismal.Much cooler temps coupled with too many gray days. Lots of non-germination including those dang cornflowers. Lots of stunts as well. Will take your advice & repot my stunts. I feel so far behind, but trying to make lemonade out of lemons, at least I have a long growing season!. Appreciate all your videos........many thanks!
Just keep growing and trying things and eventually your intuition will take over as you get a feel for it!
Should I stagger my corn row blocks or keep them perfectly straight and lined up? You're already at 181k, gotta get the questions in now, your 200k is right around the corner. Kevin (aka Eric 😂😂😂) should do your intro to say how proud he is of you!🎉❤❤❤
They should do fine wither way with the overall goal of keeping them close together. What I mean by that is that you don't want to plant in a straight line as that will lead to bad pollination. If you plant them in a block the pollination chances are higher leading to full corn cobs.
Congrats to my favorite hermit gardener! Here to the next 500k subscribers👏👏👏
Seed starting is the ultimate test of patience. I just start seeds randomly as a form of meditation 😂
So true!
Sunflowers (my favourite) ~ I've had success soaking them for 12 to 24 hours. If not direct sowing, planting seed in a tall 2.5x2.5x10-15cm (1"x 1"x 4-6") seedling pots. I originally got mine from a re-gen native habitat group; tall and skinny with holding frame, also great for seedlings with vigorous tape roots
This for sure makes a lot of sense!
Thanks so much for incorporating my seedling question! 😊 I’ll definitely try potting them up next time as soon as they start to look yellow - and I’ll back off of the watering 😅
Thanks Jacques!
Next time I will try to actually answer the question soon enough to be helpful hahah
@@jacquesinthegarden haha! Np! I’ll have to start over anyway - my neighbor accidentally sprayed pool cleaner all over my raised bed through the fence, so I’ll have to scrap everything and get the soil tested so I can start over 🥺 - so it’s actually more timely now! I get a do over
I like your poppies! We have a strain of pink peony poppies that keeps reseeding. They started from a single small, sad flower that I didn't even notice until I saw the little seed pod. The next year there was another larger flower. Then there were several good sized flowers. They keep getting bigger and more vigorous every year. This year there's a whole patch of them in a planter. Their flower buds just popped out within the last few days, so they'll be blooming pretty soon.
I love me a self sown flower patch, always bigger, more vigorous, and earlier than ones I sow!
Soon to be two hundred thousand. Congratulations!
i would love to see an aerial view of your garden
Congratulations 🎉 and a huge thanks for your entertaining and informative content .. and my seed addiction continues 🪴 😂
Thank you 🙏🏻 from Perth, Western Australia 🇦🇺
Congrats on the success of your channel. I really enjoy it. 💜💜💜
For the person who hurt their back: ELEVATED RAISED BEDS! That's what I'm using. They're not as deep, so you have to consider that, but if you have herniated discs or anything along those lines, you can still grow things. Mine are about 12". There are kits available online since it's super hard to use tools when you can barely move 😅
Wow, Jacques you have an amazing teaching spirit. I look forward to you videos and have learned so much. I prefer to not only see how to do something but WHY. I appreciate that you keep it simple and straight forward.
Thank you. Jeff
Congrats... I love seeing your videos 💜💜💜
That's a lot of people! Great job Jacques!
We love ❤️ you Jaques!
Just put some camomile seeds outside last night (because of you showing them) and promptly doused with a hose when watering. If they dont germ I'll have to remember to mist. They were so tiny I'm sure I buried them. Thanks for all the info! Congrats!
Truly my first full growing season, I've started just onions and garlic outside, but I got onion seedlings inside an some herbs, but I will go all out and set up growing spaces in the GH for next year. I have a feeling being stubborn and "it will grow if it kills me," ideology would help with growing from seed. I've a ton of flower seeds to sow this year. Thanks for the inspiration. Watching from Northern Ireland.
I use cinnamon for fungas gnats and it works great thus far.
Thank you so very much for all the detail in this video!!! It answered so many issues I have had over the last couple of years. I am fairly successful with seed starting but this video will absolutely up my game!!! Thank you again!
Very helpful info! New subscriber here, congratulations on 180k!
Welcome!
I truly wait for one of your very informative videos. I always learn something. Thanks Jacques.
Nobody does it better than Jacques 👏🏻👏🏻thank you!!
I appreciate it!
Congratulations Jacques 👏👏👏 🎊
Hello!!! So, repotted herbs from Winco. But! I kept them in the windowsill in the kitchen first. I now have several large Rosemary and Mints.
What are those beautiful giant purple plants in back of you? Great video! Congrats on breaking 200k!
Thank you for all these videos! You’re an excellent teacher. I bought some vermiculite after watching your seed starting videos in order to increase my strawflower germination rate. I’m lucky that I can grow year round so your videos are always helpful. Thanks again from zone 12b!
Zone 12b must be interesting!
You answered so many questions fella!!!
This was an awesome and very informative video Jacque!!!
Great video, as always! Awesome background, the perfect spot in your garden.
Thanks for answering my question Jacques!! I actually think you were right with the over fertilizing actually... Live and learn.
I'm glad I got there in the end!
I have a terrible time getting cones to germinate too or they die soon after appearing. With peppers I sprout them in moist toilet paper so I can watch for germination. My poppies actually have done great this season and have thrived through transplant. I've had my fair share with germination struggles this year though, stevia and tarragon as well as some nasturtium varieties. It's been a strange germination season for me quite a few failures but I kept planting until I got at least some life.
It can be a nice challenge at least to figure out how to start THAT seed!
Congrats on the channel bro! I try to grow everything from seed and have trouble germinating seeds that recommend sowing in ground. I’d like a video on why some seeds want/need to be sown in ground vs. starting in cells. Thanks for all the info you provide us!
Congrats Jacque. Thanks for sharing such excellent information.
Fabulous info Jaques! Thank you for the troubleshooting vid courtesy of your viewers! Very helpful in many areas!
I saw a test comparing unscratched, scratched & notched, and the result was that the unaltered seed had the highest germination rate. I'd love to see a 2nd study from someone else to verify what is most successful at germinating various seeds.
Interesting, we have done luffa seed before with clipped and unclipped and the clipped came up way way faster and more consistently
Coneflowers/echinacea you can direct sow in the fall or winter where you want them. I have them growing, and that is how they do best for me. They are perennials and need the cold.
Really good video and will save this one for reference. Thanks so much Jacques
Congrats Jacques!
I watched you on epic first. On that channel it said you’d only been growing since, (and correct me if I’m wrong) the pandemic. How are you so knowledgeable and such a good teacher?
Very informative 😅 my plants seem to get both extremes, they either get far too much water, or they get left til they are bone dry whoops.
On the subject of purpling tomatoes, I remember once being told its temperature related, so if they get a bit chilly (planted too early) they can purple.
Yay-- thank you for sharing your vast knowledge-- it's so enjoyable to watch your channel.
Amazing! Congratulations! So well deserved!
Congrats! Thanks for all of the great content you put out.
Congrats dude!! This video is full of great info. Thanks.
Agree on it being worth growing from seed - there were certain asparagus varieties that I could only get seeds for, not crowns.
Yeah, I was playing the long game with those, but it was totally worth it 😁
Love your videos so much, you deserve 1 million subs!!! You always share such good information.
Thank you!
Already at 240k subs, congrats man.
You are a fabulous teacher!
Congratulations 👏 👏 👏
Thank you so much; you inspire me. I saw many seeds directly and some in cells either indoors or out, depending on the weather. The last comment you made regarding ( Addiction) I am definitely addicted😊 and I think we all are simply because of what you said, plus we are addicted to eating. LOL amazing isn't it?
Friends who come over are always impressed by the garden and then once they get to eat out from it they understand that I am growing it so I can EAT IT!
Congratulations 🎉🍾
Congrats Jacques on 100k!
Awesome Sauce …Congrats 🌱🌱🌱🎉🎊🎉🎊
I did the same thing! I have grown way too many seedlings. The other problem is I can't bring myself to throw them out.
It's a hard job!
This was excellent Jacques!
Congratulations! Would you consider a AMA on your backstory, what did you do before Ytube? You come across quite knowledgeable for someone who started gardening in the panini..
I think a little history/ama while walking through the garden sounds like a great idea!
Congrats! I’m a newbie that found you through the Epic Gardening channel. This was a great Q&A.
Can anyone tell me what the big lavender looking thing in the background is? I know he said it but i can’t figure out how to spell it and get good search results.
Found it!
Echium candicans, or the 'Pride of Madeira'
It's a Pride of Madeira!
Wonderful video! So many gems of knowledge. Thank you 🎉
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
LOL! I grew a couple of Litchi tomatoes last summer. I called it the Death Tomato.
Every 100K? You are near almost 200K, woo hoo!! I have to ask what are those giant blue flowers behind you?
Pride of Madeira! And yes I'll have to get creative for each step haha
Yay! We’ll deserved! So happy for you. 😀
Hello. Another great video from the Hermit. BTW I’ve always had low germ rates with echinacea as well. I think it’s just how it goes. Perhaps it’s one that does better after the birds eat it
Seems like a common struggle !
Jaques, can you show us how to grow zucchini vertically please? I need this for my small space garden.
I have always wanted to try so thanks to your comment consider it on the list!
I germinated some mouse dropping peppers & Thai peppers by soaking it in water & a pepper towel/zip loc bag, then transplanting sprouted seeds into grow cells. In home temp sits around 65-72, and it took 7 days! Hope that helps- no fancy hear mats here.
Great method and work around for when you have only a few seeds to work on!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
You are great. Thanks for the tips.
QUESTION : What is that huge amazing plant in the background?
Pride Of Madeira!
He's gonna have to start planning a 200K video soon enough