Plastic pots?

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Originally Posted by RonnyWil

I too use the plastic cups from Costco. I have used them for the last 5 years and I was using peat pellets before that. The pellets had that annoying netting around it that was a pain to remove.

I tried drilling holes in the cups at first but found that it's time consuming. I now use a soldering gun turned upside down on a bench between two bricks. There are eight dimples on the bottom of the cups and I melt a hole in every other one. It's much quicker and easy to go from a stack on one side of me to a stack of completed ones on the other, kinda like an assembly line.

Hope it is a well ventaliated area with the plastic fumes.

[stormymater]

Costco red 18 oz. beer cups here - 4 big holes using DH's old Crsftsman drill (think that was actually my father's drill LOL). I bleach wash & rinse & reuse the ones I keep - good for at least 3 years if not left in the garden as identifiers (UV crispifies them). Love 'em!

[RiverRat]

I use the plastic four-cell planters, that I get from nurseries when I buy bedding flowers, to repot my tomatoes after they get their true leaves. I wash those out afterwards and leave them in the sun and then store them in my greenhouse for the following year. But I'm thinking that before I plant the tomatoes in the garden I'll put each one in a small paper cup with the bottom removed, and seat them with the top edge an inch or two above ground level, to prevent cutworms and sow bugs from decimating them. I had a real problem with those guys last year.

[TomNJ]

I use these 3.5" square pots from Novosel:

http://www.novoselenterprises.com/pr...le.asp?ID=8212

These pots cost 22 cents each and are well constructed with holes in the bottom. I can fit 18 in a standard 1020 seedling flat, which allows easy bottom watering. They last for many years and come in a variety of sizes and depths.

This company also offers tons of other seed starting supplies.

TomNJ

[danwigz]

Originally Posted by TomNJ

I use these 3.5" square pots from Novosel:

http://www.novoselenterprises.com/pr...le.asp?ID=8212

These pots cost 22 cents each and are well constructed with holes in the bottom. I can fit 18 in a standard 1020 seedling flat, which allows easy bottom watering. They last for many years and come in a variety of sizes and depths.

This company also offers tons of other seed starting supplies.

TomNJ

Oh oh... I sense a credit card about to be used...

Dan

[RiverRat]

Yeah, I just ordered some no-hole seedling flats from them. Wish I'd seen that before I ordered an expensive flat from Gardeners Supply! I use flats for my four-cell packs when I transplant seedlings into them; that way I can keep them watered easily.

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Thanks for the link after a day of searching locally I put in an order today I just hope they get here before Friday as I am in need of re-potting. I do have a few 3.5 inch flats from last year but they are not individual cells they are connected and also today I noticed a few of my ground cherries in 2.5" cells have flowers so I am in need of transplanting. Next year I am going 10 weeks before frost to sow peppers and ground cherries and 6-7 weeks for tomatoes I have a jungle going here now.

Craig

Originally Posted by TomNJ

I use these 3.5" square pots from Novosel:

http://www.novoselenterprises.com/pr...le.asp?ID=8212

These pots cost 22 cents each and are well constructed with holes in the bottom. I can fit 18 in a standard 1020 seedling flat, which allows easy bottom watering. They last for many years and come in a variety of sizes and depths.

This company also offers tons of other seed starting supplies.

TomNJ

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Thought I would bump this one up I just put in an order for this years supplies, they have a sale that ends today with 10% $100 orders and 20% off $200 orders and free shipping on orders over $75.

Craig