Chia Seed Microgreen

This Chia Seed Microgreen method has NO SOIL. 

I set out to grow chia seeds I already had as micro greens. I did not want to use soil because we finally got our gnat problem down and did not want to invite bugs of any kind back in.  Some of our salad green come in these big plastic containers. I love reusing something before recycling it. This worked out perfect for the humidome part. This is where the rainforest effect happens inside of the closed space when it is watered and has no where to evaporate to.  

Friday the 11th, I started by a wetting paper towel with water and sprinkled some Chia seeds onto it. I then placed in a closet to let the seeds germinate.  I gave it some more water on Sunday, the Chia seeds all appear to have sprouted. It looked very wet in there so I left the lid off of it for a few hours before placing it back in the closet. This closet has no doors and so it was not super dark, just not in light.  On day 3 or 4 of the seeds being in the closet with the lid on and being sprinkled with water every day I moved them out to a space with indirect sunlight. By day 7 they were looking really healthy and yummy. I am going to let my go a bit longer before harvesting for my pita pocket sandwich. Once we have another salad container I will rotate another crop in at about this mark, where we are a week in. So that we will always have fresh greens! 

Day One. Sprinkle the seeds on a damp paper towel. Cover it with a lid

Re-Using a plastic container as my growing humidome. Then placed it in a closet. 

Top down view of the seeds all popped into little seedlings. I was afraid they were too wet so I vented the lid a bit for the day. 

June 18th, 7 days after I started this experiment. 

Top down view of day 7 of sprouting in indirect sunlight, You can see them all leaning towards the light. 

Close up view of the Chia Seeds Sprouts on the 7th day. I turned the container around so that the next few days they can lean the other way towards the sunlight.