Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tomato-tastic II


The 8 tomato seedlings have been transferred now; 4 to a smallish terracotta pot. I'm hoping to keep them in these until they are big enough to get moved to their final pots, probably in April.

I planted them quite deep, as they had got quite leggy. They seem to be doing OK so far. I kept them in the heated propagator for the first day and night, and then moved them out of it this morning.

Here's hoping for good strong plants this year.

4 comments:

Tira said...

Good luck for great tomato harvest.
I transplanted mine this week-they take only 5-6 weeks from seed to transplant here.
That pot look too small to grow seedlings for 2 month plus, I think.

urbanbumpkin said...

I'm not too sure about that given how slow they grow here!

I'm only anticipating them getting to 15cm (6 inches) high by that time, if that.

I grew 3 or 4 in those pots last year until I transplanted them to their big pots.

Anonymous said...

OK, Here they'd be at least 4 feet!

Matron said...

It's a tricky thing starting tomatoes early in a heated propagator, they do get leggy and brittle if there isn't enough light. I tend to give them heat to germinate and then cool them down a little.