Today it was cloudy and not that warm in the morning, so I decided to move the tomatoes that germinated to a cell tray.
The seeds were planted 9 days ago, and 5 days ago they still looked like the picture below, so how quickly they have grown in a short period of time. It is truly the power of spring.
This year in February, I failed to sow the first round of chili peppers. I sow seeds on wet kitchen paper as always but they didn't germinate. It seemed to be caused by the new kitchen paper I started to use recently, so I spread tomato seeds on a terracotta tray with soil for seedlings made fine with a colander and waited for them to germinate.
I did not want to use soil in the house, but luckily it worked well without mold or insects, which I had afraid of. The fine texture of the soil was effective, and all the sprouts came out immediately when I gently pulled them.
Tomatoes can be planted deep because the roots come out of the stem. Every time I remember my favorite gardener on YouTube said "Tomatoes are forgiving plants". Yes, they are generously forgiving even if they get a little too long.
Transplanting the baby plants were very smooth. I will bring them next week to my office where the peppers are waiting. The cell tray with a handle is really useful, which Violas came in.
........ In the end I found a problem. There were few red tomatoes among the varieties I chose this time, and the germination was inconsistent among the varieties, so I now I have 4 yellow, 3 black, and 1 green tomato plants 😅 I wanted some read ones and a backup for the green zebra tomatoes that my daughter is looking forward to, so I sowed some more. And ... I remembered that my daughter wanted a purple one too 😂 It's like a comedy. I don't know if I should sow more.
So now I'm about to go out to a park with my daughter to get some sand to grow oyster-flavored plants.
Have a nice Easter holidays everyone!
今日は朝から曇り空でそこまで暖かくなかったので、家の中で発芽したトマトをセルトレイに移すことにしました。
種をまいたのは9日前、5日前はまだ下の写真のようだったので、短期間でなんて大きくなったのでしょう。まさに春の力です。
今年は唐辛子をいつものキッチンペーパーの上にまく方法で失敗して、新しく使い始めたキッチンペーパーが原因のようだったので、トマトの種はざるでキメを細かくした育苗用の土を素焼きの鉢受けの上に敷いて発芽を待ちました。
家の中で土を使った育苗はあまりしたくなかったのですが、カビが生えたり虫が出ることもなく、無事ここまできました。土のキメを細かくしておいたのが功を奏したのか、どの芽もやさしくひっぱるとすぐに出てきてくれました。
トマトは茎から根が出るので深く植えます。数年前に気に入ってよく見ていたYouTubeのチャンネルで「Tomatoes are forgiving plants」と言っていたのを毎回思い出します。そう、ちょっと徒長してしまってもおおらかに許してくれるんですよね。
スムーズに移植完了。唐辛子たちの待つオフィスに来週持って行こうと思います。
ただ問題が一点。今回選んだ品種に赤いトマトが少なく、品種によって発芽が不揃いで、今回できた苗は黄色が4つ、黒が3つ、緑のゼブラトマトが1つ 😅 赤いトマトと、子供が楽しみにしている緑のゼブラトマトのバックアップが欲しかったので、また少しまき足しました。・・・と書いて子供が紫もと言っていたのを思い出しました。さらにまき足すか迷います。
そんなこんなのイースターの金曜日、これから子供と牡蠣の味のする植物を育てるのに必要な砂を公園にもらいに行ってきます。
Wow, this is something new to me. you germinated the seeds in a tray with only 1 inch of soil mix. soon after cotyledon, you moved the seedlings to a cell tray, which is again a tiny cup. Meaning, you will move them one more time after they grow a little more?
Don't you think that moving the plants repeatedly can damage those tiny roots and may disturb their growth??
I have seen some people doing three times transplanting (germination->cell->pot->final position). I may skip potting when it warm this spring but it’s a gamble. I do this mainly because I have limited space and amount of seeds (10 seeds in a pack for rare varieties … ) 😅 If I have plenty of both, I think I start from cell tray and thin out plants. At least it works fine for me for the last years but I must do AB test 😊