Sprouting Guide
For Measuring Your Sprout Seeds

Use our sprouting guide to help you with exact measurements for certain seed varieties as well as germination time.

It only takes a small amount of seed to make super sprouts galore!

Discover which seeds you can sprout in jars and which are better in trays.

Sprouting seeds is a great inexpensive food that can be grown virtually anywhere at any time of the year.

Measurement Guide:

Germination time refers to approximately how long it takes to go from a dry seed to a finished sprout.

Alfalfa Sprouts

• 2 Tablespoons of seed
• Germination time is 5-6 Days

Broccoli Sprouts

• 3 Tablespoons of seed
• Germination takes 6-8 Days

(See our broccoli sprouts page.)

Buckwheat greens

• 1 & 1/2C seed
• Germination time is 2-3 Days
• Continue growing on tray
• Approximately 5-6 Days from Seed to Green

Clover sprouts

• 2T seeds
• Germination time is 5-6 Days

Cress

• 1C seeds (DO NOT SOAK because of mucilagenous nature)
• Spread seeds sparsely on your thoroughly moistened soiled tray medium.
• 5-6 Days from Seed to Green

Fenugreek Sprouts

• 3 Tablespoons of seed
• Germination time is 4-6 Days

Lentil Sprouts

• 1/2C seed
• Germination 2-3 Days

Mung Sprouts

• 1/3 or 1/2C seed
• Germination time is 2-5 Days

(See our mung bean sprouts page.)

Onion Sprouts

• 4T seed
• Germination is a total of 10-15 Days

(See onion sprouts page.)

Pea Shoots

• 1 & 1/2 C of seed
• Continue to grow on soiled tray medium
• Germination is a total of 10-14 Days from Seed to Green

Radish Sprouts

• 3T seed
• Germination time is 3-6 Days

Sunflower Sprouts

• 2C seed
• Germination time is 3-6 Days
• Takes approximately a total 8-12 Days from Seed to Green

Wheatgrass

• 1 & 1/2C grain seeds
• Germination time is 3-6 Days
• Continue to grow on soiled tray medium
• Takes approximately 9 Days from Seed to Green

(See our page on wheatgrass for more info.)

Or most seeds you can find in your local health food store often in bulk.

Sunflower seed and buckwheat are purchased with the shell. You want to buy the dark colored ones. See pics.

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