Tents a little full, I’m expecting not every transplant to take.
For tomatoes I have:
Gusto Halia
Jubilee
Cherry Roma
Beefsteak
Black Krim
Yellow pear shape
Green zebra
Rainbow blend
Get stuffed
For peppers:
Red bell
Fat and sassy
jalepeno (early)
Sweetie snack mix
Hungarian hot wax
Habanero
Red habanero
Shishito
Sweet
Mini bell mix
Early sunsation
Golden California
Purple Beauty
I’m expecting not every transplant to take.
This is how I end up with 2 times the amount of seedlings as I have space for. Not a bad reason to get to know your neighbors, though.
I’m jealous of your variety!
Well it does mean I can select the strongest contenders too for the next round transplanting outdoors, they need to survive a brutal hardening too. So lots can still go wrong. Haha.
Bought a bunch of seeds, didn’t work out last year, so still trying to see what’ll work and taste good.
I’m one of the few on my block who garden though.
I prune my tomato and pepper plants, but then I re-root the parts I’ve pruned off, so I might end up with 3 plants for every seed.
I’ve heard the really spicy peppers are hard to get going. I just finally spent money on a heating pad and humidity domes, and that has really helped my success rates.
That’s an option, but not in my climate, by the time they root, they’re too far behind to fruit. I trim off a few branches and bury the suckers usually.
There was a couple cultivars that didn’t sprout, I’m still giving them some more time.
The issue here is the 90 day frost free days. We can get up to 120, but that’s doubtful, and peppers also stunt under 15c, so long before frost is an issue. So you need decent sized plants to throw out at the end of May. Anything that continues into Sept and still produces is bonus.
Most tomatoes also stunt under 10c, so without extra cover, your growing days for these plants are a couple months at most.
Edit not my province, but great info.
And each one of those seedlings is giggling at waking up in a grow tent to find out they get to be weed this time.
They smell it from next door.
That site is such a nosey little cesspool. 🤌🏼
That’s a cool setup! So do you start them in little germination cubes and then move the cubes into solo cups after they’ve sprouted?
That’s exactly it. just rockwool starter cubes. Precut and has a hole in it, but you can also just buy sheets.
Heatmat to keep temp and humidity up, I do also use H2O2 as well with my water to keep mold/mildew down.
I use double cups with the solo cups so they don’t sit in water, the inside cup has a hole in the bottom, this allows me to bottom water, as well if I top water I can drain the excess.
Gotcha, so when do you repot the seedlings from the starter kit into the solo cups, as soon as they’ve sprouted or do you wait until they get their first set of true leaves? (from your photo, it looks like the seedlings did not have their first true leaves yet, but I might be wrong)
Most started getting their first true leaves when we transplanted, but I more go when the roots start to break out of the cube and grow into the bottom, the direct heat can harm them. Or when they start getting too tall for the dome. I did one transplant session instead of multiple as they came ready, so some were early, some were late.
Makes sense. Last question (for now): What are the dimensions of your tent? I’d guess 3 ft x 3 ft?
Also, thanks for sharing your updates, I find these kinds of posts to be very educational!
Yes it’s a 3x3 I have ventilation fans, filters, timers and all that. I use the tents to grow aeroponics, mainly cannabis though. I slow down in winter to make a little extra space for veg plants.
