Hardening Off Young Plants And Seedlings - A Complete Guide
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2023
- What Is Hardening Off? Why do we do it? How do we do it? How long does it take? All valid questions and right now is when we need to be thinking about hardening off our young plants and seedlings before taking them outside.
The change in environment from inside to outside, even if your spring is warm and cozy is drastic. There are infinitely more pressures put on a plant in the great outdoors than there is under grow lights and timers and perfect conditions 24/7.
Today, we'll cover the whole process of hardening off so that you can move your early indoor starter plants from inside to out in the garden without missing a beat! Best of luck this year, enjoy!
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I'm a young gardener. Wish I would have seen this video 2 days ago. Good news my plants are still almost alive 😮 thanks for the info it is great.
They are definitely tougher than we think sometimes! 🙂
I like the ‘still almost alive’ 😂 I’m still almost rich!
I already killed my Lima beans. Peas are still alive and growing. They’re all tented in plastic.
I started the hardening off process today for the tomato plants before watching this video. I thought of leaving them in the green house but at 9pm it was already 46 degrees… so now they’re back in the house until tomorrow…. Hmmm, 13 days to go!
May we all have great successes! 😊🌱
Same
@@AJWGBFXthere’s a chance then.
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You were already THE BEST GARDENING TEACHER to me.
This one blew me away.
The explanations of what ,why and how. Details on how long and when to leave the plants out.
Perfect.
Thank you.
I live in Sacramento, California with an extremely long growing season . 298 days ?
BUT...I still have over 120 seedlings that I am gonna start hardening off. It's still in the high 40 degree range at night.😮
My plant babies won't experience any sleepovers for a few weeks
This video is right on time.
Thanks again😊
Thanks so much!! Its amazing how in California it can still get cold enough that you need to harden off....but better safe than sorry! :-)
Thank you so much everyone always talks about hardening off but no one explained it till now!
Thanks Jessica, appreciate you watching, hope it helped! 🙂
always good to brush up on the hardening off process
I'm having our last frost tonight, tomorrow night is only going up to 37° Fahrenheit after that 50's some high 40's so Monday, and Tuesday I'm sowing seeds and transplanting cool weather crops. I'll wait a little longer for tomato and pepper plants. I have almost 2 weeks of hardening off and I'm ready.
Gonna be a late one this year...but maybe we'll have an extended summer??
Excellent explanation of hardening off plants and exactly how to do it. Indoor plants are really pampered considering their direct sown counterparts so this is really important information every gardener needs to know.
Thanks Sandy, glad you liked it! :-)
I’m happy I found your channel again! Tell me this isn’t replays from the past ❤
You are one of the best people on TH-cam for breaking these processes down in bit size easy to understand min. of time.
Thanks so much will, appreciate that! :-)
I NEED those green shades!!! Jeff you're the coolest of gardeners 😉😃😃 Always!!
Ha ha, they are pretty slick eh Suzanne?? 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms totally dude! 😎😎😎
I was just thinking about getting my starts outside!
Outstanding, informative and useful information!
Thank you☺
Cheers John, thanks so much for watching!
Brilliant reasoned instruction as always. In the milder NW of England I can cheat by moving plants into my unseated poly tunnel for a week, covering in fleece (row cover) if there is an likelihood of frost. Then a couple of weeks later I can plant out, again using fleece for 2 to 3 weeks to protect transplant from the wind mainly and any late frosts. This method saves me a lot of moving of my many small trays each day. Best regards
Love it! Its always motivating to see people that have fine-tuned their space and their conditions like that!
Wow! I never knew plants had a cuticle! Thanks for teaching me that. Helpful video, as always!
Right?? Amazing stuff! Thanks for watching! :-)
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Perfect timing
Excellent, excellent video! Thanks!
Really enjoying your videos, thank you! What's with the Saskatchewan Roughriders Merch? lol (Sask boy here).
Thanks! Appreciate you watching. Saskies are everywhere.....🙂
Thanks for the explanation. You can tell by our recent videos - we're gonna need all the help we can get!
You got this!!! :-)
Very good video. Thank you 👍
Question: Did I misunderstand you? I thought you mentioned never start peas early. Yet in this video I do see peas growing in your trays. Would you please take a moment to clarify? Thanks and love your videos! For garden knowledge you are definitely a "one stop shop."
Its not that you can't...its that most people don't have an acre of free indoor space to waste on peas that so EASILY direct seed outside. For sure you CAN start peas and corn and many other plants inside.....its about what is worth the time and space and effort to do so.... :-)
Good stuff! 👍 Thanks!
Thanks Margaret! 🙂
Susinct, accurate and compelling; thanks.
Thanks Eric, appreciate the appreciation. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms We have, as a result of a very hot last summer, reverted back to wall of waters. As you know, tomatoes stop producing in heat, so forcing them early allows for a spring crop of those red beauties and the possibility of a fall crop. W of W allow us to put the tomatoes outside about thirty days early.
Very nice
Thanks, hope you're weekend was good! 🙂
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Do you have a video on your grow light system? What kind of bulbs do you use? Thanks!
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i have been starting my own tomatoes from seed for years, but i am just getting ready to start my own bell peppers. Is there any difference in the hardening off process ? also i have had trouble getting bell peppers to germinate. is there a trick to that or something i am overlooking ?
Heat mats and 21 days in my experience
Thanks for explaining about cuticles. Great info as always. One question though - what happens to plants which have been grown indoors past the seedling stage that you might want to move outside or seedlings which are being moved outside later than they should?.
Hey, thanks for watching. For older plants, same thing. They still have the ability to grow a proper cuticle and strength in their stems no matter the age. They can always be hardened off, even later in life. :-)
Well I wish I would have seen this a week ago before I torched all my plants.
What you did not explain was going from indoor lighting to greenhouse is a step that may or may not be a slow transition. This transition is dictated by type of material for greenhouse: glass, poly, plastic. From there you can go to direct light, slowly increasing daily, then back to greenhouse for diluted but still consistent light.
Try to discuss since you have a greenhouse.
This is important as well. Thanks for bringing it up. Was wondering about this process myself.
The date on the tiny Tim tomatoes. What is the significance? I assume that date is too early from germination or seating. Is that the start of hardening off from transplant to hardening off?
thank u for d information! very well explained..I got a question, are all tomato plants need to be pruned or needs to take out all suckers or are there only specific ones?
Thanks so much! I don't prune the determinate kinds, but for sure all vine types I at least remove the suckers.
thank you for replying to me! happy planting!
Does the process reverse? I spent a week hardening off then it got cold for a few days. Then I got sick and unable to take the plants in and out so now it’s been a week of no hardening off. Is the first week just lost?
Yes, but its not a straight trade off. If the plants have begun the process, they can for sure become weak again....but its not instantaneously.
I'm lazy. When I want to harden off my plants, I wait for an overcast day. If I can get two back to back even better. Generally I do a half day for the first and then a full day for the second. I don't have the patience for the 2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours etc. Two or three overcast days is all you really need.
I’m few hours from van, it just got warmer and the snow finally is nearly gone. Most of it is. But, I didn’t start cucumbers yet.. Or zucchini... is it too late...? I did mention I was new to all this 😩
Right....?! I am sooooo ready for spring. Not too late for zukes....at this point though, for cucumbers I'd buy starter plants. 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms haha yeah, true. That and the sunny summer days can't come soon enough 🧚🏻♀️ ☀️
Also thanks :) I'll go get some from the nursery in the next few days then 🥒Also will get those zucchini started 🌱
@@silverlining_1995 best of luck this year!