Gardening by The Moon- a discussion of the technique

Day 10 update: WOW! I knew these dates were good for germing and rooting but I am shocked.

Already have roots coming out the bottoms of the 3 inch peat pots. Awesome.

I've tried this with vegetables a couple times. Never seemed to help. But I know some farmers who swear by it.

the famous 'Farmers' Almanac' has charts for it, too ... every midwest corn/bean farmer I know says it's all a load of bull (but, they all plant by the moon, anyway) :D

Hey I just read this post for the first time but I have five plants that are 14 days old as of the 1st of December and these plants are growing faster than I was expecting, they had tap roots about an inch long in one day but I kept them germinating and by the second day they were out of their shells and had the round starter leafs. I put them in rock wool and they are growing greatly, I think. The only thing I regret is that I put all five in the same rock wool but I'm not to worried. BTW I'm using one 42w (150w) cfl.

"What............we have, here..............is .............failure to communicate"

PmBigBud: If I understand you...you planted in these dates by accident and now realize that gardening by the moon must be why your plants are doing so good.

Thanks for letting me know it helped.

well yeah thats what happened. how do you think they are doing? I think they look well given the grow condition and age.

I think they look awesome! Better than mine! Bigger too. Way to go. Keep up the good work.

Just a reminder to ya'll who need help germinating seeds.

Dec 4 after 1:23 pm EST is a really GREAT time to germinate.

I will be using for White Rhino and California Orange Bud.

I'll let you know how it turns out. If anyone else tries these dates let me know your success/failures. Thanks. Happy Growing.

just thought i'd throw this out there:

there is something in one of my cultivation books about using this method. it mentions the gravitational effect of the moon drawing the water table up, ever so slightly, and thus helping to increase germination success. theres some other hypothesized theories in there about why else it may affect germing positively, but only hypothesized.

stay safe everyone
-GG84