Ok.... I have some sprouting.

[emilie]

I have some pansies sprouting. I have them now in the basement under flourescents. They seem very thin and the tops are light green to yellow?
There also seems to be some webby type matter on the top of the soil? I have spaghum moss on top of the soil.
Thanks
Emilie

[Lavandula Girl]

Emilie -as to the color and size, a couple of questions - you said flourescent lights... are they grow lights, or shop lights? If shop lights, do you have both ends of the light spectrum represented? (Some people put one red and one blue bulb in a standard shop fixture). How often are you watering, and have you used any kind of feeder, like a seedling start mix-in for the water? Finally, I'd go ahead and scrape off the webby stuff - it doesn't sound good. Since I haven't seen it, I can't say for sure what it is, but I can't think of anything good that looks like a web that would be forming on your growing medium.

[emilie]

Thats what I thought too....
I got it off already.
No- just shop lights I will go tomorrow and get a red and a blue then.
I have water coming up from the bottom and I have not yet to have it get dry.
Emilie

[Sandbar]

Make sure your seedling mix stays moist, not soggy. Don't want the bottoms just sitting in water ... they'll soak up too much moisture. You're doing the right thing by bottom watering.

[Lavandula Girl]

See if you can run a low fan near them too, which will lower the chances of fungal infections like damping off. If you have too much moisture, the color of a plant can become anemic. It could also be due to the light. When you go get lights, check which kinds you already have, then get a pair of the opposite. Put one of each in your fixtures. I use full spectrum grow lights, but as far as I know, a red and a blue in each fixture give just about the same results. Excellent move to get the webby stuff off - keep an eye out for more that may develop.

[bluelacedredhead]

I was always told that the use of new fluorescent tubes every year is all that was required. Doesn't matter so much about warm spectrum and cold spectrum as long as the bulbs are new.

[Mary]

Look for( basement seed starting by Stonysoil,) go down and read what Meganwfraser posted, there are sites to read about seed starting, helped me a lot. The post is the 2nd one down from yours.