It's been a couple of weeks since my post about starting my first batch of tomato seeds, so I decided to write an update about the tomato plants.
According to my picture files, I started the first batch of tomato plants on the 13th of April. All 18 of the seeds that I planted came up, and all but 2 of them have done well so far. Two of the plants have failed to grow and develop. They're still alive, but they just aren't growing. I took this picture on April 19. The seedling starter light helped a lot with early growth.
I started carrying the flat of plants out to the greenhouse during the day so they could get natural sunlight. I wasn't able to leave the plants in the greenhouse overnight until the past few days because of the night time temperature. This picture was taken on April 22.
This picture is from April 28.
I started my second batch of tomato seeds on April 28. For the second batch, I planted 6 seeds each of 4 different varieties. I can only fit 18 of the little seed starter pots in a standard size flat, so I had to find another container for the extra 6 starter pots. I ended up short 2 pots when filling them with the starting soil, so I decided to transplant the 2 largest plants into bigger pots so I could use those 2 small pots.
I finally decided to leave the plants out in the greenhouse overnight a few days ago. I put them on a stand next to the heat wall in the greenhouse. The heat wall absorbs heat during the day and gives it off at night, so the plants on or near it stay a bit warmer than they otherwise would.
I have the second batch of seeds in the house on the seed starting heat match. The mat is only big enough to put the standard size flat onto, so the other container of starters doesn't have that heat advantage. The seeds will still sprout, it just takes longer. This picture is from a couple of days ago.
I noticed last night that a few of the seeds were starting to sprout in the second batch of seeds, so today I did a bit of rearranging of the starter pots. 5 of the 6 Black Krim seeds were up, so I took them out of the big flat and swapped them with the 6 starter pots that weren't on the heat mat. Now that the Black Krim seeds have sprouted, they don't need the heat mat. I also put one of my desk lamps over the Black Krim plants to give them more light.
Not the best focus on this picture, but you can sort of see the plants...
Meanwhile, out in the greenhouse, the first batch of tomato plants are continuing to grow.
Normally, I move the plants away from the heat wall during the day, but today was overcast and sprinkling rain, so I just left them where they were.
Well, that's all I have for this update, thanks for stopping by to check it out!
