Now that I've got grow lights set up, I've been slowly acquiring seeds and some plants that were going to be thrown away at the restaurant.
Although, I still haven't purchased the plant rack, I'm slowly growing my mini collection of plants. I don't think I'll buy a plant rack until I need them, but for now, I'm taking my time with what I can get my hands on. I've already purchased the Aji Amarillo seeds. They have already sprouted, so it will take some time to fruit.
Right now, I only have one romaine lettuce stem that I grabbed from work. It has barely been a day and it's already jumping back to life! The plan is to have it 'bolt' to harvest the lettuce seeds. Since romaine lettuce is an auto pollinator, I don't need to worry about needing another one.
In my house, we consume quite a bit of onions, so I prepped some onions and took two ends with me to see if they will grow leaves. I don't know if it will successfully grow a stem to harvest them, but if I can get it to give me a stem and viable seeds then that will be INCREDIBLE. I've never harvested onion seeds because most people just harvest and cultivate sets.