The longest root structure i've ever seen!

[HotPepperQueen]

I transplanted over 200 tomato and pepper plants last week. Their root structures were much better than I thought but this one was an exception...

 

[tropicalplanttom]

Mightily impressive - that'll be why you are the queen!

I have not even got my seeds planted yet for spring, what with that old bothersome thing called work getting in the way, but if I don't get my act in gear I am going to be too late!

Tom

 

[thistlebloom]

Wow HPQ! What did you have them growing in?

 

[digitS']

Mightily impressive - that'll be why you are the queen!

I have not even got my seeds planted yet for spring, what with that old bothersome thing called work getting in the way, but if I don't get my act in gear I am going to be too late!

Tom

Tom, you know what? I thought that link in your signature was an advertisement. No, that's a blog for someone who grows plants! You've even got a Sequoia! I won't trouble you about tropical/not tropical but, obviously, you are growing that as an investment for the great grandchildren of those cute kids pictured planting monkey puzzle tree seed .

I have been doing some pepper transplanting, HPQ. None had quite that good of roots but I was thinking how the pepper grows above ground so slowly but makes a better root system than the tomatoes & eggplants. Do you have secrets you'd be willing to share?

Why you are the queen, indeed!

Steve

 

[RickF]

You must have one heck of a yard for 200 tomato's & peppers! I'll be starting some more seedlings soon in our newly purchased Root Riot kit which can do 50 seedlings.. I've got a bunch of tomato's and various other plants I'll be growing indoors until things get a bit warmer outside -- although my lettuce that is already outside is quite happy and the chickens can't get to it either..

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Hm, let's see if I can remember how I did this. Well I started them in Miracle Grow seed starting soil that I let sit on a heat mat in the pots for 24 hours before I planted the seeds. Then I put the seeds in the dry soil and lightly watered once. I put the dome lid on top and put the flat on a heat mat by a sunny window. I watered lightly for 2 weeks and then put organic fertilizer on top and added more soil on top and watered again. Once the plants were touching the top of the lid they got moved underneath the grow lights for another two weeks. The lamps were on for two days continuously, then off for 10 hours, then back on for two days, etc. I only watered once a day during those two weeks so the roots had to reach out to look for water. Then it was time to transplant! I think the biggest thing is to not over water and to give tons of light to the little plants. And plenty of TLC :watering

 

[tropicalplanttom]

Hey Steve - kind words mate.

I have the link as I always like to show off just a little! Not that I am particularly skilled OR accomplished, so you might be right in that it's an ad or a sort, just not a very commercial one.

That said, I have all the tropical stuff which keeps me interested (and the kids occasionally occupied) all year round, and then we do our best to get the crops going through the summer too, which is a little too transitory to bother with a website.

My day job is in web design, so it's a pretty simple thing to blog all of my beauties!

All the best, Tom.

 

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