Seed Raising and Cutting Establishing Containers.

I use mainly 1.5L soft drink (soda) bottles and 3L Juice bottles and they work fantastically as little humid seed raising and cutting establishing containers.

They are easy to set up and use! All you have to do is:

- Soak in warm water to remove all of the labels and glue.
- Rinse and leave to dry.
- Cut horizontally half way up the bottle leaving about 1 inch at the back.
- Poke 4 or 5 holes into the bottom of the bottle.
- Push back the top half of the bottle to add the soil and seed or cutting.
- Seal up the cut with some tape.
- Unscrew to lid and use a spray bottle to water well.
- Get a black marker pen and label the lid with the ‘what and when’ etc.

You can then easily regulate the temperature via screwing or unscrewing the lid and when you plant is ready it's just a matter of removing the tape.


In this picture you can see a 1.5L bottle that I've just set up with a Reggae Roma Tomato cutting and in the background you can see a 3L juice container that's got an eggplant seedling basking in humidity.

3 weeks after planting these cuttings and the plants were going strong:

With clearly visible roots inside the container:

Which was even more obvious once all the soil was washed away:

I use this technique to establish some backups incase the seeds I collected fail to germinate. In this case these backup clones were not required as I had dozens of seedlings germinate from the target seeds.