It looks like it's been a while since my last post about my tomato plants. I guess I haven't been on hive very much in the past week or so...
My last post about starting my tomato plants was about 11 days ago. You can read that post at this link.
@amberyooper/update-on-the-tomato-plants
I've been carrying the plants out to the greenhouse most days for some sun, if it's not overcast, and then bringing them in at night. It's still too cold here at night to leave them in the greenhouse overnight, it generally still gets below freezing at night here.
The tomato plants are continuing to grow, for the most part. Several of the plants have gotten large enough that I decided that it was time to transplant them into larger pots. I did all the work out in the greenhouse where I could contain the mess easier. I started with the 3 largest plants. These plants are the Black Krim heirloom tomato plants.
I wanted to use a pot that was big enough to give the roots more room to grow, but not so big as to make them heavy to move.
I also transplanted the 3 largest Better Boy hybrid plants into slightly larger pots than they had been in. At least they have a bit more space for root growth. I also repotted some of my marigold sprouts into pots.
I actually have quite a few marigold sprouts. These are some of the other ones that I potted, and the left overs that I didn't pot because I ran out of the small pots.
My Amish Paste tomatoes are still struggling because of waiting too long before getting them into pots. I think it stunted the root growth. They are starting to recover now, slowly. I usually put them up on the wall in the greenhouse where they can get good sun and a bit of heat.
When I bring the tomato plants in for the night, I give the smallest plants an extra bit of light. I've been setting them on my work bench under one of my swing arm lamps. I don't know how much it helps, but it can't hurt. These are the 6 Amish Paste plants and the one surviving Roma plant from the first planting.
I started some more Roma tomato seeds, 3 of them came up so far. The other pots in this group are marigold sprouts.
I started the new Roma plants in the little seed starter peat pods, but once they were up, I put them into small pots right away this time. It only takes a few days after the seed sprouts until the roots start growing out the sides and bottom of the little peat pods, and it's best to have the pods in dirt by then to keep the roots healthy.
We've still got at least another week of below freezing at night, and probably more, so it's going to be another couple of weeks before I can leave the tomato plants in the greenhouse at night. Perhaps by that time I'll have the big pots ready for some of them to be planted in. I have room for 10 tomato plants to stay in the greenhouse for the summer. I usually have mostly paste type tomato plants in the greenhouse, the beefsteak types are harder to pollinate inside the greenhouse.
Well, that's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out!
