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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 16, 2019 22:42:46 GMT -5
Picked up some cabbage plants tonight. Everything they had were spindly, the stems were six inches long between the pot and leaves. Thinking they should be planted deep, with a short stem sticking out. What the proper way? This is a six cell container and there are two and three plants per cell. Thinking should cut them off down to one plant per cell?
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Post by paquebot on Apr 17, 2019 8:49:20 GMT -5
Everything is wrong there, too tall and too many. Usually such plants will flop but having company kept them erect. I have planted similar seedlings and set them several inches deeper than in the cells. Cabbage does normally have a 3 or 4 inch stem so it doesn't affect the end result. Definitely snip off all but one per cell. To separate them would bare-root them and the brassica family takes a long time to recover.
Observing my own right now, all cabbages are behaving with the cotyledons less than an inch above the medium. Broccoli seems to be the major exception with 2" stems. It's not a light factor since all are outside in the same cold frame.
Martin
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 17, 2019 9:43:14 GMT -5
I used to grow my own cabbage and the seedlings always had an inch or two of stem above the soil. Now I buy seedlings and they are the same way. I bury that part.
If you are not going to plant them right away and separate the seedlings, then I would cut off the extras.
This year I didn't thin my bok choy seedlings to 1 per cell like I did last year. I planted them all even though some were almost bare rooted and surprisingly they all survived! I just looked at them yesterday and even the tiniest ones are alive and I have 28 plants!
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Post by farmerjack41 on Apr 17, 2019 10:55:32 GMT -5
Thanks for you thoughts.Thats about what I had figured, but never hurts to ask. Probably only end up planting four. That will make more than enough cabbage for me. Will give the other cells away. The only produce I have been selling is root crops. When you only have two outfits furnishing plants for an area, the picking is not always good.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 17, 2019 15:33:37 GMT -5
That's a lot of bok choy, brownrexx! I only have 8 plants, but I use it as a cut and come again plant, so it's more than I need. Good thing about these types of plants - they are still good when they begin flowering, unlike things like lettuce.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 17, 2019 17:38:34 GMT -5
pepperhead212, I wanted to use some of them as baby bok choy where I cook the whole plant. Last year I didn't have enough to do that.
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Post by ceresone on Apr 17, 2019 18:21:45 GMT -5
I always do them wrong, but manage to get a good crop, I separate,etc
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