Within 2 weeks they started sprouting!!
A few days later and MORE! I can grow things! Woo hoo! Go me!!
A week later and there are more than just the starter leaves! I'm the best! I'm not a failure! I'm not that accidental!
Three days later and the zucchini has exploded!
But too big for its starter pod, I'd say!
I also notice other plants haven't gotten any bigger in, well...weeks.
And it worked! Within days they had already burst with more leaves!
Just wish I'd done it sooner!
Now it's time to plant and yet they're still rather weak; feel like I wasted weeks. How did I miss that yes, plants started as seedlings DO get up-potted!
Oh well.
That and the fact that probably about a third or more of what I planted never came up.
Remind me again why I was chosen to start the plants when I can't grow anything?!!
So I decided to start putting them outdoors a bit, which I've read is needed for a few weeks - just a few hours in the sun and wind to help strengthen them and acclimate them, etc.
So I put them out in the sun for a few hours before moving them into the shade. It was pretty breezy on Saturday so I watched their frail little leaves blowing in a frightening way. Yikes! But, hey, need to step back and let them test out their wings; every little fledgling needs to learn how to fly - it's hard to watch, but it's for their good - mommies have to let go.
However, there are those mommies who forget about them until laying in bed and in the middle of the night are awakened to thunderous downpouring that they didn't know was forecasted.
{Oh no! I forgot to bring the seedlings in!! Do I get them? No, that takes WAY too much work and listen to the rain! The tray will be soaked and then where do put them down in the house? Welp there goes my entire crop that actually grew! Weeks down the drain and I suck and weh, weh, weh... [etc. ... head grumbling and ... fuzziness and .... zzzzzzzzzzz....]}
They looked quite beaten down, but seemed to have survived, so we shall see how they fare!
Setting up for real great successes here, my friends.
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