Planting Your Flat
After rinsing your seeds in the mason jar one last time dump and spread your seeds out on to your prepared flat. Using your hand spread the seeds side to side, end to end…
*Note: Unlike most seeds and how they are planted under the soil. Wheatgrass seeds are planted on top of the soil.
Xxx just planted flat seeds spread
The Ideal position for each one of these seeds is side by side ”shoulder to shoulder” above the soil. You want to avoid stacking the seeds on top of each other… which is honestly next to impossible. Simply do your best to shoulder to shoulder the seeds and move on to watering the flat.
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Since we have already watered the flat when preparing the soil, make sure not to go overboard on your watering here… at this stage it is easier to add water then remove it. You want to make the soil damp and aerated, not soaked. If you can see standing water in the soil you have gone too far.
I tend to just use the spray bottle when the grass is still in the infant stages. This allows me to keep everything nice and moist but also keeps me in check on the amount of water I put into a flat… If your forearms burning from squeezing the spray bottle trigger you have probably watered enough!
Xxx watering w a wheatgrass 101 spray bottle
Now just put your flat on your wheatgrass stand (highly recommended, having a wheatgrass stand/area really makes wheatgrass a reality) in front of a window and allow me to Congratulate you on becoming a wheatgrass grower!
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For the first 24hrs I use another flat and flip it upside down on top of the newly planted flat. This acts as a dark environment simulating nature and also creates a nice moist incubative environment for the seeds to sprout in.
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As soon as the seeds have rooted and begun shooting up (grass shoots about ½ inch tall) I remove the “incubator hood” (the top flat) to provide fresh circulation to the newly sprouted wheatgrass.
*Note putting a hood (flat) over your fresh planted flat is a double edged sword. There is great benefit in the moist air it will create but this moist air also leads to mold. This is the reason the hood is only recommended for the first 24hrs.