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This is the last day most of these tomato plants will be in seed cells. Tomorrow I'll buy a couple hundred 16 oz. cups for them to stay in for around 4-5 weeks. I'm thinking Mid-March - Hmm, the 13th of March is when daylight saving time changes. Sounds like a good day to plant them in-garden to me. (Hopefully the weather agrees.)
Anyway, I took these pictures for my personal record keeping and thought I would share with you all. The yellowish tent to the pictures comes from a 53W (75 equivalent) Halogen bulb above them. They are on our kitchen bar temporarily. Please feel free to post comments and/or your own tomato plant pictures ![]() |
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They are beautiful plants. You did well with them.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Salt they look great I have Halogen light but there is no way I am paying the electric bill on it.
I cant remember if it is 500 or 1000 watts. ![]() Worth |
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A couple hundred plants <faint>.
- Lisa What medium do you use as your potting up soil? That will be a huge load! Last edited by greenthumbomaha; February 8, 2016 at 10:42 PM. Reason: afterthought added |
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Thank you both. These are the ones I grew on a 5' tall shelf in our home. They seem to like the heat up that high.
500-1000 halogen? I'm thinking they're used in a lighthouse? ![]() |
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This thing I used it on 100's of plants one year.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...47fCxS8BjcIOiw |
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Last year, I used Organic MG, but I'm not sure they make it anymore? This year, I bought two of these for potting up tomato plants.
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Salt, when did you start them? I'm jealous--mine were started around New Year's and are so leggy with only the first puny leaves. Then several varieties became sickly looking due to lack of nutrients (they are in that Ultrasorb stuff) so I started adding MG, very weak, to the water. They are greening up, but I started to pot a few up today and left them on the patio table under the canopy. Hope they survive, we are having unusually hot temps now and it's 75 degrees with all the windows open at 10PM. If they don't survive no big deal I have so many more still.
But hey, yours are great looking! Fantastic job! ![]() |
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Great looking seedlings, off to a good start Salt.
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Peebee, I had a 36 seed cell tray grow leggy like that last year. I was told that I had the lights too far above the plants and that was what made them grow that way. It was my first attempt at growing seeds indoors, and yes, I had the lights about a foot above the plants.
At planting time - some of those were around 21" tall ![]() |
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Your babies look great Robert! wish I could lean in and smell them.
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They're beautiful, Robert!
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Yes Salt, I know exactly why mine are leggy this year and it's too long a story and yup, its the lights and all my fault. Sigh...
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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Yup, they really look nice!
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What fun!
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