Show Your Seedlings Here

[Ricky Shaw]

I love this thread, it's a candy store.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Spike2

So here in NE Ohio it is still way to early for me to start seeds. Mother Nature here has some serious mental issues and is off her meds. Yesterday I was outside in a T-shirt and today the wind is blowing the snow sideways and it is nasty. So I am so very jealous and hate you all >,< Not really!! I am just getting twitchy BUT thank you so much for the pictures of the seedlings. Soon I will be able to start mine and will share pictures too. But please more pictures!!!

Promise , Spike ?
Done deal.
Mine are just sprout on after another like cracker on 4th of July. So far about 65 % have popped up. The rest are a bit too lazy.
I will post picture once the grow a bit bigger.

@ Ricky,
When are you going to start playing with the candy.?

Gardeneer

[ibraash]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

These are 16 days old (Planted 1-17-2016) They have spent some time outside, but the next week is going to be too cool for that. It won't be long before they'll get to meet their Solo cups.

Nice looking seedlings. I have a question though. My seedlings are barely having any true leaves, and they have been around for about 4 weeks

Do you fertilize seedlings, and if so, what do you use?

Best,

[Cole_Robbie]

I just bought a jumbo box of the often-hated Miracle Grow. The seedlings that get potted up into six-packs will start to get a tiny amount of MG at each watering. Before that, they have fed off the small amount of worm castings in the seed-starting mix.


I just got my greenhouse patched back together. My six-packs of plants are going into the greenhouse tomorrow.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by ibraash

Nice looking seedlings. I have a question though. My seedlings are barely having any true leaves, and they have been around for about 4 weeks

Do you fertilize seedlings, and if so, what do you use?

Best,

Four weeks with no true leaves ? That sounds like unusual to me.
What kind of starting mix and light system are you using ?

Yes , I do fertilize mine with MG water soluble at about 1/3 strength. When / after I pot them up I increase the strength to about 1/2 the recommended strength. The potting soil that I am using has no fertilizer so I have to provided the nutrients

Gardeneer

[AlittleSalt]

Ibraash, I don't fertilize seedlings. I start my seedlings inside our house. I figure if we're paying to keep ourselves warm - why not use that heating energy for the plants? The winter of 2014/2015, I started tomato seeds on a shelf 3 feet tall, and it took a while for them to germinate and for the first true leaves to start growing.

One it day it hit me. My wife is 5' tall and is comfortable with the heaters set too hot for me. I'm 6'-1". There's a lot of difference in temperature in only one foot inside your house. So I started planting on higher shelves. The picture below is/are both tomatoes and peppers started on February 1, 2016. I started and grew them on a shelf 5' tall. I used Jiffy Mix seed starter.

I'm beginning to think heat is just as or even more important than light.

[Ricky Shaw]

Van's not kidding, those California Wonder peppers come up like weeds! Sowed Burpee hybrids Great Stuff, Red Stuff, and Costa Rican Sweet at the same time, the Wonders are all up, nothing on the hybrids yet.

[Ricky Shaw]

The Red Robin's have all done well. Not sure if I should plant these up to 1 or 2 gallon containers for their final home. These are the first dwarfs of any kind for me, interesting structure.

[Spike2]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Promise , Spike ?

OMG I promise!! The seed swap was wonderful to me and a few others sent me some wonderful seeds to try!! I am getting twitchy more and more each day LOL So YES I promise!!

[Gardeneer]

I have couple of pictures to show off
First one show 2 Silvery Fir Tree and a HGT (3 in one)

The second picture is major majorThere are close to 26 varieties in there.
I sowed the seeds on 2-21-16 . Now it is day 8th from sowing.
They started sprouting from day 4 to day 6. There has been one total failure.
All in all pretty good.

Happy growing !

[imp]

Mine are smaller, but growing along.

[Ricky Shaw]

My marker printing does not measure up and these are some fine trays.

[PureHarvest]

image.jpgOk gonna have to start my own thread next time but here are my seedlings a week later from my last post in this thread

[Gardeneer]

Imp, .. PurpleHeart,
Coming along very nicely. Let the indoor gardens flourish !
Pretty soon those babies are gonna go out and play in the sun and rain.
Now is the good time to keep the company.

Happy Growing !

Gardeneer

[ibraash]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Four weeks with no true leaves ? That sounds like unusual to me.
What kind of starting mix and light system are you using ?

Yes , I do fertilize mine with MG water soluble at about 1/3 strength. When / after I pot them up I increase the strength to about 1/2 the recommended strength. The potting soil that I am using has no fertilizer so I have to provided the nutrients

Gardeneer

Thanks for the info. I am using jiffy pellets. I know the pellets have not fertilizer. The seedlings got very leggy because of the lack of adequate light. I will use your fertilizer ratio and put the seedlings in the greenhouse outside and see what happens.

Many thanks again.

Best,