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When to thin
George Shirley wrote:
On 1/30/2015 5:58 PM, Terry Coombs wrote: Well , I've got lots of tomato seedlings now ... and two in most cells . When do y'all thin your seedlings ? I can do it now , but then if one dies ... or I can do it when they're bigger , and the dominant one is more apparent . That approach however uses more of the finite amount of nutrients available , and maybe thinning now will make one that wouldn't have been dominant actually be stronger than ... Decisions decisions ! If there were two or more seeds planted in the same cup I just pinch off all but the sturdiest seedling. Don't have enough space to plant a lot of tomato plants. The plants themselves need plenty of room around here and I keep them pruned so that sunshine gets into the plant. On occasion I have transplanted extra seedlings from a group and mostly they succeeded but not as well as the primary. And, like you said, the secondaries suck up all the energy for the primary. And this morning I snipped all but the strongest in those that had multiples . The saved Romas from last year germinated better than expected , some cells had up to 4 seedlings ! I'm seeing some action now on the peppers , my serranos are coming up though none of the rest are yet . -- Snag |
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