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Post by daylilydude on Apr 5, 2019 4:16:33 GMT -5
Has anyone gone from seedling tray straight to pot/garden without transplanting and it work alright?
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 5, 2019 7:20:14 GMT -5
No, I always harden them off for about a week at least.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 5, 2019 8:42:18 GMT -5
No, I haven't tried doing that.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 5, 2019 8:47:58 GMT -5
Yes. But I start my seeds in large, deep cells that are big enough to sustain them to transplanting size. It's important to thin to one plant per cell, and to feed them (water with a weak solution of soluble plant food) after they get true leaves. And like Brownrexx said, it is important to harden them off to outside weather before transplanting. I keep the seed cells in solid plastic trays so I can easily carry them to the back porch and then outside for hardening off. Partly it's about laziness (not having to transplant) and partly about discipline. When I used small seed cells for planting, I kept planting so much that when it was time to pot them up, there was never enough room under the grow lights for all of the larger pots! By sowing in the large cells, I am forced to only plant the number of plants that will fit under the grow lights all the way to transplant size. It also helps me to resist too much over-sowing, and to be ruthless with thinning. I know that only one plant per cell can be allowed to live; if I leave more than one per cell they will be stunted. And there is NO MORE ROOM under the grow lights for any more cells. So I know when I sow the seeds that I will have to thin to one per cell...it seems to make the actual act of thinning easier since I have had time to resign myself to it.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 5, 2019 8:52:25 GMT -5
ruthless with thinning. I know that only one plant per cell can be allowed to live; I do the same thing. I plant 4 seeds per cell and there is no way I need 4 times as many plants as I end up with by plant out time so I only keep one plant per pot and it gets to spread it's roots.
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Post by september on Apr 5, 2019 9:24:46 GMT -5
Has anyone gone from seedling tray straight to pot/garden without transplanting and it work alright? I end up doing that with lettuce fairly often. Though they are crowded, as long as I fertilize and water generously while they are in the tray, they all survive and do well in the garden, even if they look scrawny and wilted at first when separated. I plan to transplant them into individual larger cells when possible, but usually I get overwhelmed with transplanting the tomato, pepper and flower seedlings, so lettuce is at the end of the line. Onions also stay in their large shallow bulb pot until they go in the garden. Once these cooler crop seeds are up, their trays go outside every day it is above freezing and in at night. I keep them next to our wood siding while the temps are cold, and the reflected heat from the sun probably warms them at least another 10 degrees above the air temps.
If my climate allowed, I would have no problem planting from seedling tray to garden with any crop. if I didn't have to worry about freezing temps at night, I would plant out the seedlings at a much younger age than I can here.
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Post by paulf on Apr 5, 2019 10:20:05 GMT -5
I always up-pot after true leaves appear. Then the next step is into the garden
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Post by coppice on Apr 5, 2019 14:51:37 GMT -5
You might skip transplanting tomato, BUT you still have to harden off tomato babies. Lettuce or coles not so much.
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