Sowing Season: Best grown in winter and suits to grow throughout the year based on segments.

Sowing method: Cauliflower plant is grown by transplantation method. Seeds are first sown indoors in seedling trays or outdoors on seed beds and later the seedlings are transplanted into the containers or in raised beds.Seedling trays/ seed cups/ small poly bags or raised seed beds are used for growing the seedling in growing medium like coco peat (Indoors) fine soils (outdoors)

SEED SOWING TECHNIQUES IN A CONTAINER

Take a seedling tray with medium sized cells and drainage holes at the bottom and fill the cells/cups with a moist coco-peat medium, hold the Cauliflower seeds and sow 2-3 seeds per cell/cup. Since Cauliflower seeds are small in size so avoid deep sowing.

Put the seeds on the surface of the medium and push each seed a little inside the medium by using pencil tip, so that seeds are not visible on the surface anymore and cover it with more coco-peat and keep the seedling tray indoors till the seeds germinate by covering the tray with paper for first 4-5 days to encourage faster seed germination.

Water the seed cells with a spoon in the first week. Provide two tablespoons of water every day or keep the seed tray in another tray full of water for half an hour so that the water will be absorbed by the seed cells from the bottom, via drainage holes.

Seeds will germinate within the first 6-8 days and tiny sprouts will be visible. Once seeds germinate, put the tray on an open partially sunny spot near the window. Don’t cover the tray anymore.

Second week after sowing, seedlings will start growing into a small plant. At this stage exposé the seedlings to more and more sunlight for leaf growth and keep only single seedlings per cell/cup by cutting off the weak, small and lagging seedlings with scissors.

After 21 to 25days of seed sowing, your seedlings will be ready to transplant in container pots, choose a container with a minimum depth of 8 inches and bigger spread area (according to available space and your requirement) like big trays or crates, ideal planting mixture for Cauliflower is 1 part garden soil, 1 part coco-peat & 1 part Vermicompost or 2 part of garden soil & 1 part Organic Manure.

Transplant the seedling along with the root ball of a medium, without disturbing its roots in a container or with minimum 2 feet apart (60x60 cm) from each other on raised beds.