Press play and compress a 12-day broccoli grow into 12 seconds. Every microgreen moves through the same five phases — soak (if needed), germination, blackout, light, harvest — and watching the whole arc at once is the fastest way to build intuition for what's happening inside your tray.
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Broccoli — 12 day cycle
Representative times; species vary by a day or two.
Soak (optional)0.25d
Some seeds (peas, sunflower) benefit from a pre-soak; brassicas don't.