New to group and growing!

Hello everyone! I’m Eugene, My Wife and I own Anchorage Microgreens , which is located in Anchorage, Alaska. We are 21 trays in and really enjoying this new challenge. We are looking to be an organic/natural grown alternative during the spring, fall, and winter months. The locally grown produce in Alaska is amazing during the summer (20+ hours of sun + amazing soil = HUGE tasty produce) but when half of your year is winter then you can imagine the condition of the stuff that gets shipped 2500 miles to Alaska. If you have any tips or tricks for new growers please reach out!

Set up

48x18x72 Costco trinity rack
Barrina T8, one per shelf, distance from light to top of tray is 9 inches, seems to be working really well, have one shelf at 9in and one shelf at 10in, haven’t noticed a difference so will probably make them all 9in.
Bootstrap 1020 shallow trays
OceanSolutions Pure nutrient solution (organic) The Microgreens colors seem to be brighter when we use the solution but the yield seems marginal. Cost per tray is around 5 cents so we find it worth it.
Coco Coir (organic), We tried a few different brands, didn’t notice a difference between them. We bought a blue lab ph and conductivity pen test kit. Will test the different coco coir to see if they have any salt content and are ph neutral.
Seeds all come from TrueLeaf because of cost. Really happy with everything so far except the sunflowers.

Issues

finding a seed supplier that ships to Alaska without charging an arm and leg in shipping 😂
Sunflower seed hulls won’t come off during the growing process as much as I wish they would. 3 days germ, 1 day black out, 4 days light. I soak my seeds for 8 hours and germ them with 15lbs on top. I continue to top water once they come out of germ for the next 3 days and try to brush off the hulls as much as possible. I would say we spend more time harvesting sunflowers then I do anything else.

Hopefully, this all makes sense. I typed most of this while I was at the store 😂

God Bless, stay safe, and have an amazing day!

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