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My seedlings are growing!

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wordwiz

First, the toms. These were sown on Feb. 19, the first ones germinated on the 23rd. They are growing in 102 cell Horticubes.

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A view from the side:

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My Super Sugar Snap peas. Sown in 200-cell flats last weekend (all the pics were taken Thursday)

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They will go into the GH tomorrow.

Some Bhut seedlings. Don't remember when I sowed them:

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And my dwarf orange tree. It's growing slowly, probably doesn't love DWC!

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Hopefully, I'll sow another 2500 tomato seeds and a packet of broccoli this coming week. Still waiting for some basil, broccoli and various pepper seeds to germinate.

Mike
 
Another 2500 . . . HOLY TOMATOES BATMAN!!! Man, I am definitely out of my league. You've got a beautiful army of babies there. Nicely done!
 
TBO, it scares me. For the last couple of years, I've started 600 or so maters but I'll have five times that this year. But, it is also a matter of perspective. Dad started close to 200,000 tobacco plants, albeit in beds, outside. I've seen beds of hot peppers where there are 10,000 plants growing. Of course, these people use mechanical transplanters were a team of three can transplant up to 30,000 a day. I'll be lucky to transplant 500 plants a day, plus I only have maybe two days a week I can do it. I would like to get lucky and find that a plow I can attach to my tiller will make an eight inch deep furrow - that would make it easier to transplant them, along with all the other seeds/plants.

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
I'll be lucky to transplant 500 plants a day, plus I only have maybe two days a week I can do it.
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Assuming "transplant" means "planting out" 500 plants is a doddle in a day, you can easily plant out 100+/hr manually, we do it every year ;)

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I'm not so sure I can plant out 100 seedlings an hour - depends on the size of the plants and ground condition. Last year, thanks to ground that dried out two weeks later than normal, I had huge plants that needed trenched. It easily took a minute per plant, and that didn't include moving row markers. I would much rather overestimate the time it will take than underestimate it.

Mike
 
That's fair enough. Our beds are rotovated enough to plant just using your hands and we've already setup row markers and slapped stakes in ( all our plants are staked ), so that makes things a lot faster. On a blinding day we can hit 10secs a plant.

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Excuse the double post :

Peas / sugarsnaps / etc ... start them in a length of guttering ( at correct spacings ), then, when you're ready to plant out, make a furrow and slide them out of the guttering into it. Saves loads of time ;)

It's meant to be easiest/best if you water them first.

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Yabba said:
That's fair enough. Our beds are rotovated enough to plant just using your hands and we've already setup row markers and slapped stakes in ( all our plants are staked ), so that makes things a lot faster. On a blinding day we can hit 10secs a plant.

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We use to use a two-row tobacco setter. We could do two plants per second, especially if dad's cousin was driving (he believed in not wasting time!).

Yeah, when there are about 15 mouths to feed, and the mom cans 200 quarts plus all we eat ripe, it takes a lot of maters! Believe it or not, but it didn't take any longer to plant a 15" tall seedling than one half that size.

Mike
 
Yabba said:
Excuse the double post :

Peas / sugarsnaps / etc ... start them in a length of guttering ( at correct spacings ), then, when you're ready to plant out, make a furrow and slide them out of the guttering into it. Saves loads of time ;)

It's meant to be easiest/best if you water them first.

¥
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I figure I should have about 300-400 linear feet of space - that would be a lot of guttering, though I've seen some operations set up to do it. I can transplant them from 200-cell trays quickly if the root ball is large enough.

Mike
 
Good luck with it all. If you lived closer, or even on this side of the pond, I'd happily come and help you plant up. Nothing beats seeing a patch of land going from "brown and empty" to "fully planted up and growing". I get a buzz from it every year ;)

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