Tomato Plants

AlittleSalt · February 8, 2016

This is the last day most of these tomato plants will be in seed cells. Tomorrow I'll buy a couple hundred 16 oz. cups for them to stay in for around 4-5 weeks. I'm thinking Mid-March - Hmm, the 13th of March is when daylight saving time changes. Sounds like a good day to plant them in-garden to me. (Hopefully the weather agrees.)

Anyway, I took these pictures for my personal record keeping and thought I would share with you all. The yellowish tent to the pictures comes from a 53W (75 equivalent) Halogen bulb above them. They are on our kitchen bar temporarily.

Please feel free to post comments and/or your own tomato plant pictures

MissS · February 8, 2016

They are beautiful plants. You did well with them.

Worth1 · February 8, 2016

Salt they look great I have Halogen light but there is no way I am paying the electric bill on it.
I cant remember if it is 500 or 1000 watts.

Worth

greenthumbomaha · February 8, 2016

A couple hundred plants <faint>.

- Lisa

What medium do you use as your potting up soil? That will be a huge load!

AlittleSalt · February 8, 2016

Thank you both. These are the ones I grew on a 5' tall shelf in our home. They seem to like the heat up that high.

500-1000 halogen? I'm thinking they're used in a lighthouse?

Worth1 · February 8, 2016

This thing I used it on 100's of plants one year.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...47fCxS8BjcIOiw

AlittleSalt · February 8, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha

A couple hundred plants <faint>.

- Lisa

What medium do you use as your potting up soil? That will be a huge load!

Last year, I used Organic MG, but I'm not sure they make it anymore? This year, I bought two of these for potting up tomato plants.

peebee · February 9, 2016

Salt, when did you start them? I'm jealous--mine were started around New Year's and are so leggy with only the first puny leaves. Then several varieties became sickly looking due to lack of nutrients (they are in that Ultrasorb stuff) so I started adding MG, very weak, to the water. They are greening up, but I started to pot a few up today and left them on the patio table under the canopy. Hope they survive, we are having unusually hot temps now and it's 75 degrees with all the windows open at 10PM. If they don't survive no big deal I have so many more still.
But hey, yours are great looking! Fantastic job!

Ricky Shaw · February 9, 2016

Great looking seedlings, off to a good start Salt.

AlittleSalt · February 9, 2016

Peebee, I had a 36 seed cell tray grow leggy like that last year. I was told that I had the lights too far above the plants and that was what made them grow that way. It was my first attempt at growing seeds indoors, and yes, I had the lights about a foot above the plants.

At planting time - some of those were around 21" tall

oops.

KarenO · February 9, 2016

Your babies look great Robert! wish I could lean in and smell them.

Karen

greyghost · February 9, 2016

They're beautiful, Robert!

peebee · February 9, 2016

Yes Salt, I know exactly why mine are leggy this year and it's too long a story and yup, its the lights and all my fault. Sigh...

sdambr · February 9, 2016

Yup, they really look nice!

Deborah · February 9, 2016

What fun!

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MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,146	They are beautiful plants. You did well with them. __________________ ~ Patti ~

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greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	A couple hundred plants <faint>. - Lisa What medium do you use as your potting up soil? That will be a huge load! Last edited by greenthumbomaha; February 8, 2016 at 10:42 PM. Reason: afterthought added

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Deborah Riding The Crazy Train Again Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: San Marcos, California Posts: 2,562	What fun! __________________ "The righteous one cares for the needs of his animal". Proverbs 12:10

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Salt they look great I have Halogen light but there is no way I am paying the electric bill on it. I cant remember if it is 500 or 1000 watts. Worth

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AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	Thank you both. These are the ones I grew on a 5' tall shelf in our home. They seem to like the heat up that high. 500-1000 halogen? I'm thinking they're used in a lighthouse?

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peebee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 1,714	Salt, when did you start them? I'm jealous--mine were started around New Year's and are so leggy with only the first puny leaves. Then several varieties became sickly looking due to lack of nutrients (they are in that Ultrasorb stuff) so I started adding MG, very weak, to the water. They are greening up, but I started to pot a few up today and left them on the patio table under the canopy. Hope they survive, we are having unusually hot temps now and it's 75 degrees with all the windows open at 10PM. If they don't survive no big deal I have so many more still. But hey, yours are great looking! Fantastic job!

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Ricky Shaw Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Zone 6a Denver North Metro Posts: 1,910	Great looking seedlings, off to a good start Salt.

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KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,922	Your babies look great Robert! wish I could lean in and smell them. Karen

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greyghost Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: southeastern PA Posts: 760	They're beautiful, Robert!

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sdambr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 421	Yup, they really look nice!