Monday, March 26, 2018

Seedling Update

Seedlings are coming along nicely, I think.

I'm at the stage, which always seems to happen to me, where some are too tall and I should raise the light, but others are still lower. 

So they're not quite as robust as I would like, but we shall see.


(I raised the light too quickly early on and then later heard that it should be within a few inches of the tops of the plants...that seems awful close and awful warm! But they do get "leggy" with long and not terribly strong stems when they're reaching for the light.)

I started wondering if I need to up-pot some, but then I think about the sizes of plants you get in these little plastic containers in the nurseries and I have a ways to go on these guys! Just makes me nervous when they seem to have stalled out on their growth.

I planted pepper seeds nearly 2 weeks after the others and those didn't take off (again, I think because I put them in tiny pots and they were too far from the light). Oh well. We had planned on buying pepper plants and only did the seeds because someone was giving them away.
Nursery plants, it is!

I think the flowers will do well.

I already up-potted 2 sunflowers and those just keep reaching for the "sun"!

Now we just need spring to actually get here! Such a crazy, weird, abnormal, cold March!
Temperatures are looking more normal towards the end of the week, though. I'm ready!

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