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Sue - thank you for the information and picture-that helps! I was hoping to use K-cups more to repurpose the K-cups than anything else. Judging from your picture, it looks like the k-cups might work for the first 1-2 months and then I would need to repot them, which would be okay with me, I think. Plus, some might take forever to germinate and those could stay in the k-cup a little longer to conserve space until its needed. I might just have to experiment and see how it goes. I like your idea about the plastic cups, although I think I'll try to find something a little larger that isn't 'recyclable'...I'm trying hard to give 'non-recyclables' a second use, if possible; and the k-cups seem to be a manageable size in case I end up having fifty or a hundred seeds that I want to try to start. I'm trying to figure out how feasible all of this is...like almost everyone else, I don't have tons of money to spend on this project, so there might be some difficult decisions involved.

Maurice - thank you for the input. Have you successfully grown daylilies under fluorescent lights?


I'm planning on growing these in my basement, so, while there is some daylight, I wouldn't factor it into the equation, there just isn't enough to make a difference. (I do, however, have enough for maybe 20 lucky seedlings to take up residence in my office window.) Whatever light waves are needed for the daylilies in my basement will have to be supplied by the light I purchase. It sounds like I'm going to have to set them up with two lights, which might be just as expensive as the grow lights. (I started researching all of this last winter when I was thinking about starting veggies, but I didn't commit most of the information to memory and I dropped the research in favor of just planting things and seeing what happens, which worked well). I guess I still have a lot of research to do in the next several weeks if I want to give my daylilies a head start this winter.