Hardening Off Started Plants (DON’T Skip THIS Step!) | Gardening tips and advice
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Ya'll, I was in a grumpy mood so I went to my community plot to plant lots of zinnias. I was waltzing on my way out all happy and full of vitamin D and garden therapy when I saw some free rescue plants. I casually walked over and THERE WAS A BRAD'S ATOMIC GRAPE. I don't know where I will put it or if it will live. But part of me was like "I think when Jess asks God to bless gardeners, this is what happens". So thanks :)
I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU. WE THANK GOD FOR HIS GOOD BLESSINGS!!!
That’s awesome! If nothing else you should put it in a grow bag.
Well mine are starting Outside. Had to scury to cover for this coldsnap we had ..but they look Happy. Someday ..greenhouse to start
Congratulations! I believe God DID bless you. Now my question, will it grow in zone 9a, Florida?
I am getting really spoiled to this daily ,early day motivation, I am loving it !!!
Me too love it
It's definitely annoying, but being a first time gardener, having that task when it's a season of just watching things grow and seeing them get stronger brings an unexpected joy
Growing a gardener = Hardening my patience muscle 🙃
You read my mind with this video 😂 I was this close to saying “meh” and planting my seedlings without hardening them off 😅😅😅 I’ll do the steps and have patience.
Years ago I rooted some tomato plants in the house. When they had enough roots, I stuck them in dirt and put them outside. couldn't figure out why they died. Now I know!! Actually, I think the amount of knowledge I've been gaining the past year or two is down right AMAZING!! Thank you.
I put my seedlings in wagons and roll them outside during the day and then roll them back inside, it takes up floor space in the house but only at night!
I have a mental picture of a little radio flyer full of seedlings. This is a great idea!
That’s a great idea. I don’t have a lot to plant - but I do have a cat! And she kind of destroyed a few of my seedlings last year, which was the first time I tried growling from seed!
Great idea. I'm going to do that when that time comes for me.
What a wonderful idea!
I just gave some herbs to a friend yesterday and told her to be sure and Harden them off and she didn't know how. Now I have the perfect video to send her!
I totally need to get my herbs started. Thanks for the reminder...(0;
Florida gardeners, be careful... Our 4:00pm sunlight is violent for brand-new little plants. Morning mottled sunlight is a little easier on tender seedlings. ♥
southwest sun is brutal here. i throw shade cloth over my infant garden on occassion. i did find some 50% garden shade covers online.
Thank you so much! You just prevented my seedlings from wilting :)
@@cristymarie6450 ♥♥♥
Same in Cali. They were going out at about 9am. 3pm+ would’ve been way too harsh around here.
My grandfathers garden at that time of the year was my favorite when I was a kid he had panels he would put up in the evening or noon sometimes and I would run behind them pretending I was in a jungle maze , I never understood what he was doing because it didn’t happen for a long time , he called it tanning them so they wouldn’t get sunburned once they started living outside. We are in Florida he even had orange trees
"Now, let's learn about hardening off plants." No, let's order a t-shirt, first! BRB...
Hahaha 💃🏻
Girl same. Within seconds I had to get more stickers and new tanks 😆
Haha. Me, too!
Lol same! 😄
@@whisperjoy1128 i do love the tanks. I'm sad that my old one with Miriam on it has faded so much
First year growing seeds and I so needed this! Each of these videos is giving me the confidence I need! If I only get one successful plant, my soul will sing!
Same here. Jess is really helping me with all her videos
My little sister is growing her first started plants this year. She was planning on transplanting them this weekend, so this video came in the nick of time!
I so appreciate that you release video's so often. It's nice to have your blessings to start my day and inspire me. Thank you 💛
This totally explained what I was messing up!! This is my first year starting seeds indoors and my plants were tall, skinny, weak, and failing to thrive when I was trying to do what I thought was hardening them.
THANK YOU!! Just three days into the method you described and they are drastically better!!!! Your videos make a difference!!!
Thank you! I’m so glad!
🌻I am just now hardening off our plants and planting some of them in our raised beds. Some of my seedlings are looking a little rough. I have lost some because I get antsy and want to plant them in the ground so badly. Thanks for sharing your videos they brighten my day every day to learn and listen to you Jess. 🌻
I started hardening off yesterday and idk about everyone else but it makes my anxiety so much worse 😅😩
I’m in Wisconsin - I have a ways to go yet!! I don’t plant a lot but I can see how anxiety provoking it could be!
@@laurad7439 I live around Port Washington wi have my onions planted spring garlic and potatoes and hardening off my cooler weather plants hardened off
Just think of it as they need a little suntan before going to the beach!! No sunburn!
@@sunshineinfla222 yeah I know I'm an anxiety person every year but just gets worse during the scary hardening time lol.. I should just be used to it after all these years but I just dont wanna lose them 🤣
I just stare at them like they'll explode or something 🤣
Sitting on the couch watching this knowing I have to bring my seedlings back inside for the night 🙃
I needed this instruction cause I wasn’t sure on how to harden off my tomatoes and peppers. Thanks Jess!
I know right? Its not something a lot of people think about
@@Korkythegardenslayer Being my first time starting seeds indoors, yep, never even thought about sun exposure....always bought plants to plant in my garden.
Man my tomato and peppers were such a pain to harden off for me. They do not like it one bit. My advise is definitely be patient with those. I lost a couple plants and a few stunted for the rest of the year.
This is so tedious and I've been fighting the urge to skip, but I needed this pep talk. Thank you!!!
I work outside the home, so I typically leave before 5am and don't get home until after 6pm. What I do to harden off my seedlings is to put them out on the screened porch for a few days after all danger of frost has passed so I can leave them out overnight. Then I move them out onto the deck, right against the railing where the bars make shade stripes, for a few days. Then pushed back out of the shaded stripes that the railing makes. But it's still not full sun there, it gets sun between 10 and 5. Then I move them out into the garden.
It's a process, but I don't have to bring them in and out every day. And it seems to work pretty well.
Thank you for specifying the late afternoon time period. I definitely would have started in the morning sun not thinking about the uv ray effect.
Yes me too!!
Love your video! Thanks for the great info!
I put mine beside the house where they get a couple hours of early morning sun which isn't that bright then leave them there in the shade. They've been in that spot for 5 days now I think? Doing great.
Great advice on hardening off plants. Don’t want to lose those wee seedlings that so much time and effort has been spent on
I know , I dont want to lose them either! I worked way to hard to lose them.
Your growth as a teacher has been a joy to watch! That was an excellent video describing the process. Your knowledge & joy of teaching shines through! Bravo sweet Jessica! 😁💖
I am so glad that I found this channel. You speak my language! Every time I get a question in my thoughts, you must hear them. Your timing is perfect with the video posts. Thank you for the inspiration, and the time you take to explain everything so well....I wish you were my neighbor!! 😂
Thank you for saying what the steps *are*. I'm very new and naive. I'd heard of "hardening off" just in general terms, getting your plants used to being outside, .. but I didn't know how to do that properly, and I killed a lot of them by leaving outside too long, or putting in direct sun. Having details like this helps so much!
Jess, do you have suggestions on hardening off, if you have to work a 9- 5 job? Is it better to just wait a little later in the season, and start seeds directly in the ground, if a work schedule prevents doing this process?
This was super helpful. I’m a newb. I always assumed hardening off was only to prepare the plants for lower temps at night. It never even occurred to me that it be for sun exposure too.
I hate hardening off plants so much that I stopped growing seedlings indoors for the most part. I now do almost all my plants by the winter sowing method. I might be a couple of weeks behind at first, but the plants are tough and take off right away without hardening off.
I have a unheated greenhouse. I had some trays of the cabbage family in it. Well one night it got cold enough to freeze the water in the trays. It affected them some, but they were already used to the cold. On another day I had some Pepper seedlings outside on a warm overcast day, then came some unexpected strong winds with rain. The strong wind was not expected. That wind lowered the temp and harmed some of the seedlings. Some survived the shock while others got their stems broken by whiplash. Nature can be so rude. I used to heat my Harbor Freight 6x8 greenhouse until it got to the point I was heating up the world when the autovents didn't close when the heater came on. I also don't keep cabbage family seedlings in it for to long because it can encourage them to bolt from getting 100F during the day.
I always dread this step too.. I know it so important to do but pain of moving in and out is not fun
I don't have the patience to deal with dragging things back and forth in small increments. Instead, I cover my seedlings with a double layer of frost cloth/fleece on day 1. Day 2 is a single layer. Day 3 they are on their own. Even better, if I have several overcast days together in a row, I just throw them outside. Everything does fine this way.
This is a really great idea
I started my seeds in seed trays and everyone's favorite red cup....started with hauling them in and out every night, and then taking them out one morning, my dogs tripped me(I saved my seedlings!) and took a chunk off the side of my ankle....I then decided I was going to start leaving them out. We have been up in the 80's and then into the high 40's to 50's overnight. My seedlings have thrived! No hardening off for me! Two kinds of green beans planted on my trellis, all my squashes planted, up-potted my tomatoes so they are bigger going in the ground.....my peppers are my nemesis! Only one if each type sprouted and they are taking their time. Thank you for all your inspiration! I have a much larger garden space than I did last year and don't feel overwhelmed. I just keep trying. 😁
Never heard of hardening but, it makes total sense. Thanks, Jess. 🙏❤✌👵
You speak right to my impatient soul, Jess.
I LOVE hardening my seedlings. But I usually only have like 2 trays to deal with, at one time. LoL. I bring 'em out every morning, and sit and watch them grow 😆
Thank you Jess! This is my first season starting my own seeds and this is vital info!
My first starting from seed, too! It was my goal this season so I can save money. But space is limited and I find myself planting a ton of extra seeds so that I can learn how to care for different types of seedlings since practice makes perfect! Now I don’t know what to do with all the extras. I can’t bare the thought of trashing them 💔 and most people I know don’t garden.
Good luck! I hope your plant babies are doing well! 🌱
@@debbyd5729 Thanks! Everything is up and happy apart from tomatillos. Those didn't work for me, for some reason.
"Hardening off is the most annoying step" IT SURE IS!!
Okay, I love the paint color of your garden seat. I see mine in a real pretty shade of pink this weekend. And it will stand out in the garden. Btw, in my relatively small backyard garden I’ve managed to plant 56 tomato plants! That’s just about half. It’s raining buckets here, so I’m snatching moments to run out there and put in seeds, I.e pole beans and vining plants on my cattle panel trellises. God bless you for sharing. You are so inspiring and keeping my mind occupied while I sit here getting chemotherapy (yippy, dippy, skippy!). But I’ll be outta here soon and headed back to my garden. God bless you, sweet girl!
FIFTY SIX? 😳 That will be quite the workload come July. But boy will it be tasty!
@@melissasullivan1658 last year I had twice as many and a lot of fruit, but the pests were so bad my harvest wasn’t that good. I still have more to plant, but I’m still cleaning up the back yard from sally damage.
I work 12 hour shifts and struggle with hardening off because of this schedule and tend to risk it more than I'd like to admit.
Side note: Does anyone else love big bears little cameos? For some reason I just love when he's chilling in the back ground. Such a good dog. lol
I love Bear and all the animals ❤️
Hardening off can not be said enough. No matter when you live. Great vlog.
Don’t blow it on a single act of impatience! Love that! Great tips! Didn’t realize we’d need to do this for a week! So happy we watched this.
I don't have a green thumb, so thanks for that info. Learned something new. 🌷🌻🌼🍓🍅🥕🌶️🌽🍠🥦🫑🥒🧄🥔
You are so right! Hardening off is not a fun process but a necessary one. Thanks for your encouragement to stay the course! ☺️
Hi Jess, love watching old videos to refresh. You are the mater guru of gardening. Thx for being there. Hope all is well with your wonderful family.
I'm working on hardening off my plants too! Thanks for sharing!!!
Not just sun but wind too. Last week I had a flat of tomato seedlings that I'd grown under lights, with fans, were nice and strong. I'd had them in and out of the house for several days and left them on a covered, shaded porch last Friday, and left to run errands. We ended up having 65 mile an hour winds while i was gone (I got windburn at the nursery where I was browsing!). I came home to find my tomatoes shriveled up and dry as a bone, despite being well watered the day before. Luckily I've been able to salvage most of them
This was so helpful to this newbie! Thank you so much! My mom surprised me with your book- it looks like a textbook- marked, highlighted, underlined :). It’s been a big confidence builder to read up before I make purchases. Thanks again!
Omgoodness I’ve been gardening off the last 3 days and my anxiety has been crazy!!!!! Thank goodness for my gazebo and the shade part to harden off!!!!!
I try to harden my plants several weeks in advance just to get them out of the house..i keep a good eye on the weather forecast though.. I just got my work out in
Jess this content is amazing 😊 It is a part of my day that I look forward to!
I usually end up hardening off a little early, because I don't have quite enough grow lights 😂
Me too
Me too 😂🤣😂
How tall do they have to be before hardening? It’s my first time growing indoors
@@nancystroman5014 I have started it as early as when they have their first set of true leaves. My house does not have good south windows so i set them out in the day for several weeks just so that they get light. It gets in the low 20s at night so i cant leave them out. As soon as they wont freeze i end planting them since i am so tired of setting them out every day
Oh sweet hardening off
Blessings
Thank you for giving me confidence and planting a seed for me to start gardening!
Got information. Never thought of evening hardening off. Thanks!
We are going to use a wagon this year to bring plants in and out. We tried putting them right outside the door on a greenhouse shelving unit, but not enough air circulation or light was there. We also put plants on the porch with a sheet on a clothesline on porch to protect from bright sun. Cloudy days are the best.
What I love about you is you're such a sweet young lady. You're real. God bless you and your family.
Once again thank you so much for your time and energy you put into your videos. I really appreciate all the knowledge that you share.😊
I got some baby seedlings started inside that are no where near ready for this stage, but looking forward to it! Thanks for re-opening your pre-orders for the shirt designs, I missed out last month and now I order both pretty shirts!!!
It’s like you read my mind! I wanted to start the hardening off process today and was hoping you had a video explaining everything & boom, a new one pops up! Thanks for always being so helpful & having great tips!!
I'm so happy this is my request thank you thank you for addressing this for me and gardeners like me! I'm half way through starting my seedlings and super excited for these next steps!
Got preoccupied yesterday and scalded alot of my babies! Wahhhh
This explains so much! I started hardening off my plants just a few days ago and I have definitely been leaving them outside too long. Thank you for all of the info!
Hardening off is easy in Central Kentucky 6B if you have a greenhouse. Just open the door to the greenhouse all day\evening in April, but watch for any potential freeze days
ights when you might need to close it. After a couple weeks of the door being perpetually opened and the wild temperature swings it's enough to toughen the plants without even moving them. Been using this 'lazy' strategy for better than a decade with great success. I think KY being a pivot point\seesaw for air masses gives this automatic hardening-off luxury out here.
I'm in 6b as well. Great idea!
I tried a few different hardening off techniques this year. The sunflowers and peppers did not like the tough love, but the tomatoes and eggplants did fine!
I sped it up, leaving them out for about an hour day one, 2 hours day two and all day day three. I did move them when they were outside to partial shade so they got dappled sunlight. Some of the poor peppers got some sun burn...but they're coming back, putting out new growth. The sunflowers are growing slowly 😑
But the tomatoes and eggplants are taking off. And my dwarf tomatoes have a lot of flowers and....fruits! 🍅
Very exciting.
I didn't experiment with everything, not all the peppers and sunflowers were tested. So I know next year I won't be giving them tough love.
I did check the leaves and general state of the plants each day. Although this test went well for the tomatoes, they did get a break when we had a sudden cold snap. I had to bring them in. So they had a three day break after the fifth or sixth day of being outside.
But next year I'll probably have a greenhouse so that will make the process much easier.
This is so important step; thank you so much! I love the fact that you emphasize to exercise Patience! We are actually patient Gardeners since we enjoy watching this beautiful tomato seed grow and become beautiful plants and grow luscious fruits to be picked and eaten and preserve! What an amazing process. Be encouraged beautiful gardeners! Yes, you can have patience! Bee patient!
I actually came back to take notes. I've always felt so confused about hardening off my plants and done a terrible job. But not this year! Thank you so much!
So grateful i found you. 💚🌱💚
Love that you are only just over an hour from me. Loving your video’s always so informative. And yes this time of year for hardening off does test ones patients but is very important for success. I say this because I had one of those day of impatience and burned some leaves on one of my begonias that I had been growing over the winter. Lesson learned.
Such a beautiful greenhouse! Loving all the colors. Thank you for all the great information!
Thanks for explaining this process!!
I started seeds indoors and am getting ready to transition them to the garden. Really helpful video! Thank you.
I love all the angles. Getting super fancy!
I just trimmed my elderberry bush and stuck about 25 tiny branches in a jar of water on my back porch. I never even thought about hardening off from the sun - only the frost. So glad I watched as today I'm dipping them in root hormone and was going to pot them into smaller pots to get more roots. Such a GOOD video today. Thanks for saving my future hedge-of-health and privacy! Your the best.
You are a professional and amazing at teaching and sharing your true passion!
I listen and learn each time as I plan my next garden 😊
As always, thank you so much for all of your knowledge and sharing it with us . I never fully understood the process of "hardening off" until now 🌱😍🌱😍🌱
I've never bought merch from a channel before. I'm happy to help support such an informative and interactive channel. I'm so excited to get my shirts. Also.... Love your book. I read it in a day ❤️
I have sun scalded my seedlings moving from indoors under grow lights to my greenhouse. Always learning.
You're right, it does test your patience muscle
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Thanks Jess! Hardening off is probably a common question for many. Great job. Patience required! Bless You and Yours
I sure wish I'd seen this video before I put my zucchini in the ground lol. I lost some of them BUT went ahead and put seeds in the spots where I lost some. Now I know. Thanks Texas huge!
I learn something each and every single time I click on one of your videos! Bless you!
i know same here!
Making them tougher ,like the tip and download s patients it is wearth it ❤️🙏👨🏼🌾
Jess, your spirit is just so beautiful to me!Just a breath of fresh air and positivity.🤗I’m a new gardener this year...thank you for the wisdom & tips!
Wonderfully spoken.😊
Thank you for explaining this quite well Jess when I was doing most of my gardening people just said look in a book and what was written was just gibberish mostly days before the internet now I think I could do this because I've got good explanations thanks a bunch
As soon as you said shirts were available again I paused the video to go order my shirt as I missed the last pre-sale. Shirt is now ordered. Thanks so much for all this great information, as always it has helped me be able to grow the things I am growing this year. 🌱🌱👩🌾🙏🏻
This was the clearest explanation of hardening off plants and I finally see what I was doing wrong. Thank you!
I have a small poly tunnel and am in zone 5b. We have already had a few 70s days and a couple 80s days. Even though I’m a month away from planting in ground I put them outside on my 70-80 degree days so my harden off period is shorter. I’m not a patient person lol so this has been my method for years. Thank you Jess for your dedication! 🌱❤️
That was amazing jess
I love your channel I have a backyard garden and I am growing a lot of tomatoes and peppers, corn, collard greens and different kale.
Thanks, Jess!
I got plant starts from my local garden center today!! We’re supposed to have rain and possible hail tonight, so I’ll be waiting a couple days to plant... patience!! And now I know to bottom water them so when I forget to water them they will be ok!
Excellent timing! I started hardening off earlier this week as well! I usually let them get some morning temps since the area they sit in doesn't get direct light until 1pm, however tomorrow night is going to be in the 50s so I may try the later in the day process and leave them overnight for the first time! Thanks for this video!
Good info Jess, thanks! I've found a way to cheat, but you have to have a specific sun/shade yard to do it. My patio gets about an hour of sun a few hours in, then several hours later another hour or so. I just bring mine out when it's warm enough and leave them for a week to ten days in this intermittent sun. When it looks like a few days of clouds, maybe even a day of rain, I put them out. By the time it clears up, they're watered in and good to go.
I have always done an abbreviated (greatly) hardening schedule. Yours looks likely to be more successful. Thank you.
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Love this information, I transplanted and put 2 small greenhouses on the back porch. A few hours,of morning sun and shade for most of the day. Panting in New Jersey is early May!
I'm so glad I've been sort of following this advice. My tomatoes have been in a greenhouse during the day and I check on them throughout the day, but we've been into freezing temps yesterday and today and I decided to leave them under the grow lights in my basement.
I'm going to begin introducing them to direct sunlight as soon as it warms up a bit again. (later this week, maybe?)... Thank you for your continued advice!
Love this garden talk, But just me, Thanks for teaching me
Finally ordered myself one of y'all's shirts! Thank you!