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Nice looking microgreens, I assume for people consumption? FWIW, when I grow fodder for my chickens, I don't use any growing mat in my bins. If the fodder grows well as it should, then it makes its own root mat. My chickens eat everything from the tip of the blades to the bottom of the roots. I...

Thanks. That's helpful. FWIW, I'm colorblind, so reading the typical PH levels with the color gradients was always a challenge for me. Thank goodness for digital readouts nowadays.

Sounds like PH has a lot to do with good germination and growth. It is something I had not considered. But I am a bit confused as to proper PH level given previous posts.... At this point, I thought your target PH level was 5.5. Again, PH 5.5 seems to be the target. Still looking like PH...

In that case, do you feed the soaked grains to the chickens? Some people soak the grain overnight to soften them up and make them more digestible. I suppose ungerminated fodder grain, even if days old but no mold, would still be great feed for the chickens. That's what I do anyway, if I have...

@jthornton , thanks for you updates. Have a few comments/questions for you. I hope by "tossing out trays" is that you mean the moldy trays go straight to a compost bin, or somewhere the worms can at least eat the fodder not fit for chicken consumption. Since I only grow fodder in our winter...

Pretty much what I discovered in growing barley fodder. My first 50# bag of barley seed had almost no mold growth at all. So I was convinced that I had dialed in everything perfect for growing fodder. I never even used bleach on that supply. My second bag of fodder was a total disaster and all...

:bow Excellent outcome!

Yes, that is what I concluded this past winter when I got a bag of "bad" barley that had a very poor germination rate and mostly grew mold. My normal system of growing fodder worked just fine with good seed, but if the seed was old and/or had mold on the grain, then nothing I did seemed to help...