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Old March 5, 2009   #3
dice
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Sure, you could plant those. I just put some seed starting mix
in a small pot, pick up the sprouted seed with tweezers, drop
it on the top, and cover it with a thin coating of seed starting
mix. Then I set the pot in a little tub of water, and I spray it
from the top with a mix of 1 part peroxide to 10 parts water
(reduces damping-off problems).

If you want to be fancy, you can make a hole in the seed
starting mix about as deep as the root is long and carefully
lean the sprouted seed in there vertically, then fill the hole
with seed starting mix. The rest of the process is the same.
I usually find this unnecessary, though. Tomato seedlings
will quickly adapt to strange root orientations, with new roots
growing downward and the growing stem turning upward.
(Small scale version of trench planting.)
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