Catch-up tomatoes
13 May 2025 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeHaving pretty much mentally written off my attempt at planting some more, very belated, towel-tomatoes, I was surprised to find first one and then two seedlings popping up, despite the heat and the pot drying out! (And another one coming today, by the looks of it; two weeks to the day with outdoor germination.) It will be an interesting experiment, given that the survivors of the first batch currently all have flower-buds on... I have successfully re-homed the two smaller Roma tomatoes that didn't get larger pots, so we are down to the single adult plant that is required (or desired).
Splitting up the second pot of chillies invigorated those, as before, or at least those ones that didn't just dwindle as a result. The most vigorous of the first batch now have 4-5 true leaves on, and of the second batch 3 leaves -- the rest ought undoubtedly to be thrown away as massively surplus to requirements, and are mostly looking pretty sick. Successful germination/survival from the home-grown seed does seem to be lower than from the original commercial seed packet, but then as it's not pre-graded that's probably what you would expect. The difference is that one has rather more seeds to play around with at the start!
Both the chives and one of the spring onions are now in flower, as is a love-in-the-mist which self-sowed in the buddleia pot.
Another of my water-carriers (a 4-pint bottle, and ironically the one that visually looked the sturdiest, being solid white plastic rather than translucent!) appeared to have started a slow leak, so I replaced it from the recycling box in my neighbours' front garden -- fortunately they don't crush their plastic, as the instructions recommend you to do :-p
The big new one no longer smells of screen-wash, but it doesn't pour very well, so one tends to lose a certain amount while decanting it into the watering jug :-( Still, it saves a lot of carrying up and down stairs...
Splitting up the second pot of chillies invigorated those, as before, or at least those ones that didn't just dwindle as a result. The most vigorous of the first batch now have 4-5 true leaves on, and of the second batch 3 leaves -- the rest ought undoubtedly to be thrown away as massively surplus to requirements, and are mostly looking pretty sick. Successful germination/survival from the home-grown seed does seem to be lower than from the original commercial seed packet, but then as it's not pre-graded that's probably what you would expect. The difference is that one has rather more seeds to play around with at the start!
Both the chives and one of the spring onions are now in flower, as is a love-in-the-mist which self-sowed in the buddleia pot.
Another of my water-carriers (a 4-pint bottle, and ironically the one that visually looked the sturdiest, being solid white plastic rather than translucent!) appeared to have started a slow leak, so I replaced it from the recycling box in my neighbours' front garden -- fortunately they don't crush their plastic, as the instructions recommend you to do :-p
The big new one no longer smells of screen-wash, but it doesn't pour very well, so one tends to lose a certain amount while decanting it into the watering jug :-( Still, it saves a lot of carrying up and down stairs...
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Date: 2025-05-13 09:44 am (UTC)They were probably planted late (but that's when he gave them to me...)
Masses have germinated, but I don't know if they'll flower later in the year.
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Date: 2025-05-13 05:56 pm (UTC)