New to growing your own tomatoes? This is the forum to learn the successful techniques used by seasoned tomato growers. Questions are welcome, too.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2016
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what kind of weeds you get?
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Join Date: Jun 2015
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with a small spritzer bottle. If an entire row is lagging behind I lay a strip of plastic cut from a gallon zip-lock to keep it moist. If the seed is viable they will eventually show up. Avoid watering the entire tray. Just wet cells with the slow-pokes. If an emerging seed still not visible dries out, it may not make it. I have three cells right now, same variety, that is a no show at nearly two weeks now. |
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What varieties? Some cherries do look like weeds.
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One thing that might help in the future...germinate test your soil early.
Around last Thanksgiving I took advantage of free shipping and ordered 2 10lb bags of coir cubes. (not mesh pots). Stocked up. Compressed cubes. I grow salad year round with stellar success finally. I just need 4-5 expanding cubes per tray. Easy and convenient to just soak what I need. 4-10 trays per week in succession. Around the x-mas holidays I did a germination test tray of tomatoes. Also a heat treatment SousVide. One row of micros to grow out and dwarfs, and a row of Terenzo hybrid. Multi-tasking testing to also see if the coir is also good for tomato starting. They all did really well. So, this healthy 1010 tray of starts I did keep growing after culling to one per cell. Potted up nine dwarfs and nine micros, a couple Terenzo for early tomatoes. No need to start that early, but an early, 3-4 week early, can give a good assessment of your soil you plan to use. Before spending time and seed with a new bag. (I just potted up a couple dozen using a new bag of proMix. So freaked about soil I'm testing it before I continue.) |
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And then you can do something idiotic like adding too much salt to the water softener and then wondering why the seedlings look sick! That was me last year. Fortunately, I managed to save most of them. I have learned my lesson and this year, I'm only using water that has bypassed the softener.
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#23 |
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Some of those same plants I just brought upstairs to get some sunny weather. They need potting
up tomorrow. Might have some nice early tomatoes as the weather is about to hit 75 tomorrow. Spend some time outside in the shade. (dwarfs are tough plants!) They seem to just sit and wait without complaint. dMetalica, dArtsy variegated and some Angora micros I call PicoloGato (akaLittleKitty) |
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their house notes to do so. So I do it. |
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#25 |
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Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it.
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I had some loses in my peppers last night. I'm going to blame it on this thread. It's like an evil chain letter. If you've read this far it may already be too late for you. But there may be hope for you. If you send Grenada or. Zavrony......
Nah, too late to replant anyway. |
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Here is a tray with late germination. Surprised to see these this morning. 16 days from
sowing. I always sow 3-5 per cell and just getting some now. Not great gemination rate from this variety, Kelso from BunnyHop. Rest of the tray is up. three cells of Kelso, one is still empty. This tray has been under light for a week now. I have kept those empty cells misted. |
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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I have a few varieties that are still coming up. But my problem was that some of my crosses and my seasoning pepper fell over as a group. They looked totally limp, like pepperomia does it it goes a few days without water. But they aren't dry so I don't think they're going to snap back with a misting.
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Leggy seedlings are weak seedlings, and they will get leggy stretching for light. |
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My lowly advice is to plant seeds, put the trays under the lights and start the cycle at that time.
What have you possibly got to lose? |
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