Show Your Seedlings Here

[Cole_Robbie]

A lady bug enjoying the seedling canopy: http://i.imgur.com/UMysyzN.jpg

[AlittleSalt]

Here are a few more. They are different varieties of Ambrosias and Bumblebees. I want to attempt to grow them in the raised beds we built from March through November.

[Gardeneer]

Update for the change of...
Here is a picture showing one of my trays, @ day 26 from sowing. I have as many not seen here.

Gardeneer

[Merediana]

Here my little experiment, same varieties (2 each), same room and conditions, but 4 behind the south facing window and 4 under my growing lights:



And thats how I raise my seedlings, I got this thing for christmas and I love it. It's small but it works great:


The varieties I grow:
Old Yellow Candy Stripe
Michael Pollan
Kellog's Breakfast
Hendersons Pink Ponderosa
Kremser Perle
Small Egg (very bad germination with these seeds, 50% germinated, but 1/20 survived, the rest died very soon)
Striped Cavern
Cuor di Bue Giant red reif
White Oxheart
Trefle du Togo
Northern Lights
Barry's Crazy Cherry
Amethyst Cream Cherry
Orange Russian
Candy Sweet Icicle

[Ricky Shaw]

Nice little set-up Merediana.

[barefootgardener]

Everyone's seedlings are looking really nice. Great job to all of you!

Ginny

[bjbebs]

Plants are back under lights after several days outside. The 5-6 week old plants are going to St. Louis and Atlanta next week to be hardened off and set in the ground. Tomatoes for my home garden are up with more to be planted. Peppers are a bit ahead of schedule and will need one more pot up. These plants have seen no added nutrients other than the bit they get in the soil mix. They will get a small shot while hardening out.

[shatbox]

Oh man, everyone's posts look so good. I'm just barely starting seed!

[maxjohnson]

I grow mine in seed trays and transplant it into red cups in 2 weeks, and transplant 2-3 weeks later. I use compost and water with molasses a few times. The bottom ones are Brad's Crazy Cherry, they are bushy from the start.

[wildcat62]

Getting started for 2016

[Gardeneer]

Well, what you will see technically are no longer seedlings. But I grow them from "SEED"
The variety is called SILVERY FIR TREE.... Beautiful foliage.

[User 636]

I have a little fan blowing across all of the containers. The stems have thickened up nicely from the steady but light breeze.

[Cole_Robbie]

I have freezing temperatures forecast for the next two nights, so I had to rig up a cover for my plants. I filled two big troughs of water under the benches, and will be running a 750 watt electric heater under the benches next to the 220 gallon water trough. The hoops are 1/2" cpvc and the plastic is just the cheap painter's drop cloths.

http://i.imgur.com/vyQ7MYi.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/56KETPF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/14z9GeI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vN5FJz3.jpg

And here's a sideways pic of a Bosky Chabarovsky, looking to be my first tomato of the year: http://i.imgur.com/oNfRYSX.jpg

[imp]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I have freezing temperatures forecast for the next two nights, so I had to rig up a cover for my plants. I filled two big troughs of water under the benches, and will be running a 750 watt electric heater under the benches next to the 220 gallon water trough. The hoops are 1/2" cpvc and the plastic is just the cheap painter's drop cloths.

http://i.imgur.com/vyQ7MYi.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/56KETPF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/14z9GeI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vN5FJz3.jpg

And here's a sideways pic of a Bosky Chabarovsky, looking to be my first tomato of the year: http://i.imgur.com/oNfRYSX.jpg

Looks good, should be nice under there tonight!

I covered all my basket seedlings under a painter's drop cloth , 10 x 20 tucked in under the edges and placed some upside down baskets over the top with a brick on the bottom now top to weight them.

They little trays are up on the porch but off the porch wall and covered well, too.

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks. It snowed this morning. The temperature was about 35 outside. I checked the plants and it was 80 inside the cover, nice and humid too, from the water tanks. And that's with just 750 watts of heat going. If I was trying to heat the entire structure to that temp, it would take more like 7500 watts. That's been my journey in struggling with trying to heat a greenhouse - it works a lot better when the space you're trying to heat is minimized.

I have a forecast low of 30 and a freeze warning for tonight. It should stay in the 70's under that cover. My plants end up being the warmest on freezing nights. That's the only nights they get heat.


edit: Make that a low of 29, plus 20 mph winds. This is not tomato weather.