Potting up
26 April 2022 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI have given away the seven (which turned into nine when a couple more seeds popped up after being transplanted into the eggbox) magazine-tomatoes, transplanted the three best 'heritage' tomatoes into a large pot for growing on and given away the other three in improvised paper pots (an empty spice jar turns out to make a toilet-roll-sized flower pot former), and transplanted the three best towel-tomatoes likewise into a large pot, while retaining the rest in the smaller pot they came from. That was the batch germinated on the kitchen windowsill, which are noticeably more advanced than the seeds which germinated outdoors and earlier on! (I haven't attempted to pot up those, as they are still a bit weedy.)
I don't think I really want more than two pots of either variety, although since the 'bush' tomatoes are smaller and shrubbier I did get away with having three of them crammed into one pot last year -- so it's probably silly to be nursing all the laggard seedlings along, but I feel I ought to give them a chance after trying so hard to germinate them. Incidentally, I see that I complained last year that the towel-tomatoes were looking scruffier and weaker than the commercial seed, but later on they bushed up nicely and outgrew their original pots... so I'm guessing that this is simply a 'messy' variety and always looks like that when it first germinates :-D
After planting basil seeds twice in my mini-greenhouse I now have about twenty seedlings in there ;-p I shall have to eat the thinnings -- again, I probably don't want more than two or three adult plants.
One thing this has demonstrated is that only *one* of the seedlings in the pot I originally planted basil in (and labelled accordingly) is, in fact, a basil plant at all! I did rather suspect it... (And that seedling, having been sulking for a fortnight outside, still appears to be at pretty much the same stage of development as all the new ones.)
Three of my four expensive individual red chilli seeds have germinated, although they are not looking very vigorous or developing (or even opening their seed-leaves) to any appreciable degree, so I'm a bit worried that they may just damp off before getting anywhere. I'm trying to keep the pot warm, which means moving it desperately around indoors and out :-(
I don't think I really want more than two pots of either variety, although since the 'bush' tomatoes are smaller and shrubbier I did get away with having three of them crammed into one pot last year -- so it's probably silly to be nursing all the laggard seedlings along, but I feel I ought to give them a chance after trying so hard to germinate them. Incidentally, I see that I complained last year that the towel-tomatoes were looking scruffier and weaker than the commercial seed, but later on they bushed up nicely and outgrew their original pots... so I'm guessing that this is simply a 'messy' variety and always looks like that when it first germinates :-D
After planting basil seeds twice in my mini-greenhouse I now have about twenty seedlings in there ;-p I shall have to eat the thinnings -- again, I probably don't want more than two or three adult plants.
One thing this has demonstrated is that only *one* of the seedlings in the pot I originally planted basil in (and labelled accordingly) is, in fact, a basil plant at all! I did rather suspect it... (And that seedling, having been sulking for a fortnight outside, still appears to be at pretty much the same stage of development as all the new ones.)
Three of my four expensive individual red chilli seeds have germinated, although they are not looking very vigorous or developing (or even opening their seed-leaves) to any appreciable degree, so I'm a bit worried that they may just damp off before getting anywhere. I'm trying to keep the pot warm, which means moving it desperately around indoors and out :-(