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When to thin
On 2/2/2015 2:19 AM, ~misfit~ wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet 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 ! Here's another decision that I haven't got around to experimenting with yet..... What if you're actually pulling out the plants that're slower to grow vegatively but are better at fruiting when you remove the smaller ones? It's pretty much impossible to know which plants will fruit the most unless you have ESP with plants. Maybe a Zen experience with tomatoes? G Gardening, at best, is a hit and miss experience in my opinion. You can do everything right and the damned plants won't grow properly or the weather changes to bad, or bugs and birds eat everything you plant, or the dog digs them up. Basically gardening is a crap shoot but if you do the best you can most times you are rewarded. Wife and I gardened with our parents at a very early age and here we are in our mid-seventies still trysting with the garden gods. Just go for it. |
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