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seeds planting up / leggy seedlings

Fire Angel

Fire Angel

I have several different plants in all stages of growth. Some are a little leggy and others are doing just fine.

#1. When I move the seedlings up to a larger pot, can I bury them deeper to support the stem?

#2. When do you recommend I plant them up from the tiny 1" square seed trays?

Really the only leggy ones I have are Lemon drop and Pusa Jwala.

My Datil took a MONTH to germinate!! And that is on an 86 degree mat!
My Fatalii sprouted quickly with an 80% germ rate, so I will be planting out about 15 of them!

In this batch that I am growing for hot sauce have:
Trinidad perfume
Tobago Seasoning
Datil
Pusa Jwala
Lemon Drop
Orange habs
Fatalii
Naga Morich
7 pot
7pot Jonah
Trinidad Scorpion
Bhut Jolokia

My GHETTO grow box!...
Insulated cardboard, lined with reflective insulation, heat mat, and FL bulbs found at work. The heat mat was a free gift, so all this was free.
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Not much to see here, but a few cute little buggers.

Fatalii
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Naga Morich
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Fire Angel said:
I have several different plants in all stages of growth. Some are a little leggy and others are doing just fine.

#1. When I move the seedlings up to a larger pot, can I bury them deeper to support the stem?
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Yes, a lot of folks recommend burying up to the cotyledons even if they're not leggy.


#2. When do you recommend I plant them up from the tiny 1" square seed trays?
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Watch the bottom for roots, but I wouldn't go much longer than the establishment of the first true leaves.
 
Thanks Pam...
Does it look like the picts I posted indicate it's time for them to be potted up?
In past years I just started in large pots so it wasn't an issue.

Thanks
Kim
 
Hm, the pictures didn't come up when I answered you. That's a nice looking bunch of seedlings. I was thinking that 1 inch would be about the size of a peat pot, but those are a bit bigger. I'd watch for roots coming out of the bottom, but the larger ones are probably about ready to be potted up.

It's not so much a green growth issue at this point, it's about giving the roots plenty of room to grow.
 
Nice looking Seedlings!

What lights are those? Are they T5 fluoros.

How far away are they from the plant canopy (sorry i'm a light nut)
 
Looking good Fire Angel...

you managed to get the Pusa Jwala to germinate, thats great ! you had better luck then i did..lol

as far as leggy goes, they look fine to me... but i, like others, bury them right up to the cotyledons.

keep the pics coming as they get older.
 
wow they look really good!! Ghetto Box?? Hey it works. does the job and it was inexpensive! Nothin ghetto about that...
 
groeatrepeat said:
Nice looking Seedlings!

What lights are those? Are they T5 fluoros.

How far away are they from the plant canopy (sorry i'm a light nut)
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They are the kind of lights you steal from work :)

Initially they were WAY too far from the light source as I was being lazy. Now they are just a few inches. The tallest Pusa Jwala and Lemon drops are almost touching the bulbs.
 
Dyce51 said:
wow they look really good!! Ghetto Box?? Hey it works. does the job and it was inexpensive! Nothin ghetto about that...
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If it works that's all that matters. I agree. Last year mine were started in the bathroom closet between the shelves with a couple lights hanging just above them. Was kind of funny when the maintenance man came in though. I think he thought I was growing pot in my closet:lol:

P.S.- Burying part of the stem worked for me last year too in response to that question.
 
Fire Angel said:
Rabbit....

I like your signature, same goes for us!
My 5 year old daughter helps me clean game!
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AWESOME!! I'm taking my future daughter outdoors as much as I can from an early age. I noticed it looks like you live on a farm too. I'd like to get a few acres someday and raise a pig, some chickens, ect. I love my peppers, and other plants, but I absolutely love everything about the outdoors as well. It's hard to beat wild game, fresh mushrooms, fish, ect.
 
here is my 5 year old with just one of MANY rat snakes she caught last year!!!
It was eating eggs in the hen house.
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To keep it on topic, has anyone noticed their lemon drop being kind of spindly?


Kim
 
Fire Angel said:
here is my 5 year old with just one of MANY rat snakes she caught last year!!!
It was eating eggs in the hen house.
snake-3.jpg


To keep it on topic, has anyone noticed their lemon drop being kind of spindly?


Kim
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Nice snake! Looks like she's having fun out there!:cool:
 
I'm sure glad you're teaching your daughter to enjoy nature and not be afraid of all the creepy crawlies.
 
Pam said:
It's not so much a green growth issue at this point, it's about giving the roots plenty of room to grow.
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Yea that is something I am learning this season Pam. A little while back I removed some seedlings from the small cells and potted them in cups. The cups were smaller than I wanted but was what I had on hand. In these cups the plants had very little green growth. This past week I picked up larger cups and decided to do some transplanting. To my surprise there had been a drastic amount of root growth. Green growth is more fulfilling to look at but knowing I have some good root growth going isn't to bad either.
 
josh & other of course its not good to keep a plant extremely root bound. but it also doesnt hurt the plant being a little root bound!

some even say you'll get a better harvest by slowly potting up, instead of allowing the roots to grow freely with the space.= only pot up when the roots are getting bound up, NOT re potting when theres no need for it!

I've bought plants that were so root bound in a 1" cube & they grew the same as ones that were in 3" containers (all before potting up)

so in short theres no need to waste your time potting up on the seedlings you have right now, maybe within a couple weeks but not now going by the pics.
 
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