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can I separate my zuke sprouts in their cups?
On 6/10/2015 5:04 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
George Shirley wrote: On 6/10/2015 1:34 PM, Terry Coombs wrote: T wrote: On 06/09/2015 04:42 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: Terry Coombs wrote: T wrote: Hi All, I planted zuke seeds in these cute little 3" peat moss cups. Three per cup. Not all the cups have sprouted (I know, PATIENCE!). When I go to plant them in my garden, can I separate the multiple sprouts from the same cups, or should I just prune out the two small ones? Many thanks, -T I like to leave the 2 strongest in each hill . You think zukes take patience ? Try sprouting Anaheim peppers . My record is zero sprouts for two years effort . Grrr . Which reminds me I need to get the okra seedlings in the ground . Unless your seed is old it is common to get very high germination rates for curcubits so I wouldn't be putting more than one seed per pot anyway. If you do, chop the weakest and don't disturb the roots of the best, curcubits resent this and it will tend to set them back. This is the reason that the traditional planting advice is to sow directly. My system is to plant them in tubes, the square-section plastic sort that you buy tubestock in that are about 15cm (6") deep and 5cm (2") across. These encourage the roots to go down not around and you can get the whole plug out in one chunk at transplant time so there is no transplant shock. These are much more effective than shallow jiffy pots. If you want (say) 3 plants you can sow 5 or 6 and plant out only the best. This system costs almost nothing and invariably produces strong seedlings that take off in the ground quickly. Thank you! Toilet paper tubes work well too ... Yup, took your advice on those last fall, also can include paper towel rolls, neatly cut of course. They rotted out quicker than the peat moss cups and just disappeared. Hot as Hades outside now, having to water the raised beds daily. Squash is dying out from the heat, green beans are blooming again, crowder peas just started blooming, tomatoes are coming in ripe heavily as are the eggplant and cukes. For some reason the sweet chiles aren't doing well, haven't found out why yet as last year we got tons of chiles. George I finally got off my butt and planted some more green onions today ... and decided to go ahead and plant some herbs , a couple of hills of gourds , some habaneros and a row of red ripper peas and some whipoorwill peas . Pretty late , but most of that seed came from the seed swap a couple of weeks ago . The swap was supposed to be in Feb, got snowed/iced out . This is my first attempt at growing dried peas/beans , we'll see how that goes . We've always let some beans/peas dry on the vine and kept them over for seed for the next season. I pick some of the biggest and best to be seed and mark them with twine or a piece of cloth just so I don't forget and eat them. Just got the power back on here after loosing it for about an hour. 96F outside and it got up to 86F inside before the power came on again. I am seriously thinking of installing a natural gas generator since we have so many outages here. There are at least a thousand more homes being built within a square mile of us and outages can only get worse. |
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