Did I Ruin 500 Tomato Plants By Doing This?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Welp. We made some mistakes.
But I want to own up to that. It's something I am going to learn from, but it's something you can learn from too!
It's only the end of March, and my greenhouse is PACKED with a few too many plants that are a little too big. We're about a month ahead of schedule, but is the farm ready for all of these plants?
I can either pot them up, try to keep them in these pots, or go ahead and plant them out. The potential problem with that last option is we can get a late season frost out in Ramona. Luckily, it's not guaranteed to happen, and it will be light if it does. In fact, it will be light enough that row cover will probably be sufficient to protect these plants.
If we keep all of these plants in here, there's also a high chance of disease and pests. There's not very much airflow inside the greenhouse, and we're kinda asking for problems here. It's really just a matter of time before something happens.
So what do you need to know?
Always consider the space that you have. Until your plants are in the ground, they need to be SOMEWHERE.
If you need to pot up, then your plants/pots are going to take up more space too.
The other main limiting factor is TIME. In a month, a lot of this isn't going to matter to most of zones 9 and 10. When it's early in the season, though, we need to be careful with frost as well as just cold nights. If it's regularly cold at night, the plants might not grow much anyway.
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San Diego rookies always trip how late I start ESPECIALLY on the coast 😂. I try to keep the growth momentum without stalling so fruit sets with decent heat. Avoid the stall and pest cycles. Interesting most commercial tomatoes in the county were grown along 5 near Pendleton. Would of thought Valley Center and Ramona would be the prime spot 🤷
I thought I was planting late enough, Feb 1st in zone 9. Since I normally transplant end of March. It’s still chilly up here in the Bay Area. So mine are also long and lanky. Making note to push out seed starting by 3 weeks next year.
I am in Bay Area and plan to transplant tomatoes sometimes next week. It looks like the nights will be warm enough
Unfortunately (although we are in Zone 7B) we have the exact dilemma as you. We opted to try the double cup method. AND IT WORKED!!! So now we have tall tomato plants from 18-20 inches tall. Depending on who or what you look at. Our last frost is between April 20th and May 1st. Then last year we had a hard frost first week of May? We are going to chance it and planting our tomato plants on the 15th of April, Might work and it might not. Results sometime in the future?
In 9b deep south I started mine on heat mats in January indoors (unheated room). Moved them under lights when they sprouted but they stayed 1" tall or so for so long I ended up buying seedlings to put in the ground in March. Needed to protect them on the nights it went below 50°F but they're taking off now. Most of the 1 inchers have grown some but they're still too small for the ground and it's getting late for us - the heat comes in fast and hard when it comes!
Indoor lights need to be on for 14+ hours and be full spectrum. How cold did the room get at night?
@@SanDiegoSeedCompany The lights were on 24/7 but I'm not sure how cold the room got. We had outdoor temps around freezing for some days but I was out of town and couldn't check the conditions in the seedling room.
You can plant deep in a post hole, or lay them in a trench with just the top showing.
Very true! Tomatoes are so resilient
Great video! Do you need to “transition” your veggie starts from inside the greenhouse to outside?
Always harden off. It’s not as warm and humid outside of their greenhouse. Plants need to acclimate to sun, wind, cold and heat.
What is the lowest temp °F the tomatoes get in winter in the green house? And what date were those started?
We don't have tomatoes growing during the coldest part of the winter (usually mid to high 30s). We start them in Jan (if we're super excited) or February, and it's usually getting down in the 40s then.
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