My Miniature Greenhouse (Experimental)

It wasn't until recently I had an idea to convert one of my old fish tank into a miniature green house. For the top to keep in the humidity I thought of cutting up some large plastic that I had laying around to the size of the opening of the tank. Few holes poked in for ventilation. However, it didn't really work as well as saran wrap (plastic/clear wrap) does. For the light fixture I use a 15 watt 18 inch grow light. I feel it isn't strong enough to bring the heat into the tank, but I'm not going to try and make the satisfy the seeds so much as long as there's still sun during the day to keep them warm enough and bring in plenty of light and humidity.

Here are the seeds I'll be experimenting within this mini greenhouse:

Container holding Adenium Seeds, labeled and saran wrapped.

Side project - Bonsai (Japanese Red Maple and Cherry Tree)

During the day I take them out, remove the saran wrap that covers the containers inside so that they can have air and won't suffocate or be baked. Everyone goes outside while still inside the tank. An hour with air ventilation before I put on the saran wrap over the tank to bring in humidity. Usually an hour or two I often make sure the soil doesn't dry out and mist them with a spray bottle.

Plastic cover covering the tank along with saran wrap layering over it to keep humidity in.

While they are outside to get light and be warm, I try to make sure they aren't directly in the light. I don't have any bright shade (tank above was moved into full shade for picture) so I position the tank behind my potted roses in the morning. When the sun gets higher, I use a mesh curtain that filters out some of the sun over the tank so that the sun is't directly hitting the tank. Silly I know, but it's the only thing I can improvise with.

Tank covered by mesh curtain for indirect sunlight.

When the sun gets hotter I would layer the remaining curtain over to double the cover for protection. As the sun goes down the tank is brought back in, each container misted and wrapped back up before being placed back under the light fixture for the remaining of the day until next morning. Honestly I'm not sure how much light they need while they are just seeds. Until then, I'll give them light 24/7.

The end.

For those of you that wants to see how the Adenium seeds are doing:

Sowing Adenium Seeds
Adenium Germination
Adenium Seedlings
Adenium Seedlings One Year