they rely on the food reserves in the seed combined with oxygen found in the soil to grow new cells. This is why you should always use a light-textured potting medium to start seeds, and why over ...
Indoor potting mixes/soils are very similar but often slightly less efficient drainage. One special mix is for seed starting. It is very light and has excellent drainage to encourage roots to grow ...
then sow in pots filled with seed-starting soil mix. Fraser firs grow slowly, only about 1 inch the first year, 1 foot in five years, so a quicker option is to buy bare-root seedlings from a mail ...