Tender Plants

[GIZZARDFARM]

Ok folks...i used the peat pellets and have lots of plants that are bout 3 inches and starting to fall over. They have one set of leaves. So yesterday i potted them up in 3 inch peat pots with MG potting soil and watered them up. I left bout half inch of the plants above soil level. Please tell me i havent messed up and doomed my plants......i have been taking them outside everyday as we have been having 70 degree days and returning them inside at night. I have close to 150 plants started now and I need some advice on what to change or not to do or to do......whatta ya think

[mdvpc]

Gizzard-dont stress-you will be ok. can you post a photo for us to look at?

[GIZZARDFARM]

Yes i will post them tomorrow when I get off work on this thread.....man I hope so I can grow anything and lots of it but this starting your own plants from seed is like waiting on your wife to deliver one of the children...

[GIZZARDFARM]

Bare with me guys...Im tryin to post pics but they wont upload for some reason..I get a message that they are to big or something..I hope to get it straight before beddy-bye time...gizzard

[ddrsheden]

I start my seeds in jiffy pellets too. I don't mind that they get to leggy. I also plant them deep when transplanting them and they sure grow fast after that by adding all those extra roots.

As for keeping them from getting that tall..you need to have them under some lights. Lights that are only a couple of inches above the seedlings.

[GIZZARDFARM]

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[GIZZARDFARM]

did i do that right???i mean to say can yall see the pic????

[GIZZARDFARM]

Picture 006.pdf BABY MATERS

[feldon30]

Not sure why your pictures are posting as PDF files. I'm guessing you have a Mac? (Not that there's anything wrong with that .

Can you resize the images down to 640 x 480 and save as a JPEG?

[GIZZARDFARM]

Been tryin Feldon...tryin everything..I dont use MAC but converted them..oh well Im not sure what the problem is i have posted pics before maybe a camera setting....

[ddrsheden]

The plants look good!

As for downsizing, we have adobe photoshop and are able to import pictures and they have a 'save for web' button so I can downsize the pics. I'm sure that there is other software out there that does this also..and maybe even some freeware.

[GIZZARDFARM]

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[GIZZARDFARM]

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whooooooooooooo I got it...I got it....Igot it...Thanks fro your help folks..

[feldon30]

I don't think you have "doomed" your plants, but I think they would do a lot better if they were getting more light. I have never tried to grow seedlings with a mixture of indoors and outdoors, but other people here do, and can probably give you better advice in that regard.

The fact that your seedlings got 3" tall and flopped over suggests to me that they are not getting enough light! Can you buy some fluorescent lights and raise the plants up so they are almost touching the bulbs?

The pictures below are how my seedlings look at 2", 3", and 4" when I keep fluorescent lights very close to the tops of the plants, almost touching them -- they won't burn.


First stage and starting to show true leaves


Roughly 3" tall seedlings with true leaves


4" seedlings with a good set of true leaves, ready to be potted up for the first time into 4" pots.


Thanks for posting the photos! A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words. Just so you know, the photos you posted are 2MB each, so some people may have trouble viewing them. They may take 10 minutes to download each on a modem. Fortunately these days most people have fast internet!!

If you'd like, I can set you up with an account on my free photo gallery which over a dozen Tomatoville members are using. It resizes the photos for you so they are download friendly. Just send me a PM if you are interested.

[GIZZARDFARM]

Nice lookin plants Feldon....