Show OFF your Seedlings ..2017

[daylilydude]

Well all the lil ones are outside soaking up sunshine and the warmer weather we are having...













Not near as purdy as some here, but they will get there...

[Cole_Robbie]

Your peppers look much better than mine, very nice.

[Fritz77]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

the rest of the gang

Your plants look gorgeous Cole Robbie!

[javafxnoob]

I can't make my eyes to look on other direction, still fixed on Cole plants. Very beautiful seedlings indeed. How old are they?

[NewWestGardener]

This is the opposite of showing off...
I tried to grow sunflowers a few times, and the sprouts were always eaten bare by creatures, so direct seeding does not work. But starting them in standard cells won't either. I should've directly seeded them in deep pots. Lessons learned...
Next year I will cut some deep pvc pipes and set them in a tray to catch water, for all long-rooted plants.

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks for the compliments. I started my first seeds about mid-February.

And what's wrong with the sunflower? I transplant mine, and they are ok.

[tryno12]

Great looking plants!! How do you know when to plant in bigger containers( please see mine attached) and should i be feeding them something? It will be several weeks before I can safely put them outside here in Central Indiana.
Thank You

[tryno12]

Great looking plants! Do you to put holes in the bottom of the "red solo cups" ? and was wondering if the red mulch does the same thing as like black plastic although the black plastic does not look as nice.........
Thank You

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks. I usually break up the clusters of sprouts at about their second set of leaves. I use a light kelp-based fertilizer at first, and then later some very light miracle-grow type of product. You can take a plant out of its container and see how much the roots are spiraling, to decide when to transplant.

[jmsieglaff]

Tomatoes and peppers are coming along. Tomatoes have nearly all sprouted, just a few left to break ground--mainly dwarf tomatoes for some reason.

[Jonnyhat]

waiting on my square pots to get here... time to cull and clone again...

[tryno12]

Thanks Cole

[tryno12]

Good looking Peppers and Tomato Sprouts! I have the same (except I just planted the Pepper Seeds today) - seems as if more dwarfs - hope they produce as this is my first year growing them. I went through all the work of organic seed starter etc, then today it stormed so I thought "why not spritz the seedlings with rainwater - better yet also start bottom feeding them as well with rain water" so now I am praying NO bacteria and or algea etc from rain barrel!!

My first four tomato varieties germinated. They came up today, it seems. These four are from seeds I saved last year, and are the first out of about a hundred varieties, including ones I bought and got from others, too.

The first picture is Green Pear (sorry for the blurry picture). The second is Girl Girl's Weird Thing. The third is Napa Giant (you can see that in the top of the second picture, too). Oroma is unpictured. The last two pictures are okra, which interestingly sprouted before anything else in my unheated Idahoan mini greenhouse (it began two or three days ago; those tomatoes took about 5-7 days to sprout, I think). The only okra I've planted in the greenhouse so far that hasn't germinated, yet, is Dwarf Long Pod (the others pictured are Jade, Jing Orange, Red Velvet, and Bowling Red. Edit: Because it germinated so fast, I planted more greenhouse okra (from seeds I saved from last year's plants: Edna Slaton's Candelabra, Hill Country Red, and Egyptian).

The soil is worm castings with a little peat moss mixed in. Yes, those are support beams for my greenhouse that are down (I'm waiting for the replacements for broken parts so I can attach them again; fortunately, the greenhouse still works without them).

If you're wondering how I know what's what, I wrote on the sides of the containers with whiteout to label them.

I've got something growing that might be an Alpine strawberry (or even a weed) that sprouted today, too, but it's too small to see the details, yet, and I'm not sure if it's a strawberry or not.

[MrBig46]

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