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Re: My seelings are too Big!

Dot:

I'm not sure about the cukes, but with the tomatoes I would pinch off the
flowers and pinch back the growth bud of the plant as well. You don't
want them fowering before transplanting. You want all their energy being
put into developing a strong plant with a strong root system.

Mike A. (western Oregon, Sunset zone 8)
quincymike@juno.com


On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:58:58 -0700 Dot Geib <jeweller@CYBERSTORE.CA>
writes:
>Hello everyone, Being this is my first year at gardening, I've got a
>lot to
>learn.  One thing I'm sure I've done wrong is that I must have started
>my
>tomatoes and cucumbers (indoors) too soon.  I've got them moved into
>the sun
>room now and they both seem to love it there.  They've all gotten so
>huge,
>almost all of them are a foot or more high, the tomatoes are loaded
>with
>flowers, and the cukes have small cucumbers on them, but it's much too
>cold
>and early here to put them outside.  I've already transplanted them
>into the
>largest pots I have. I can't put them into any larger ones as I won't
>have
>the room for them all.  Does anyone know what the minimum night time
>temperatures would be suitable to set them outside.  I've been told I
>shouldn't put them out until late May.  Maybe I can slow down somehow.
> They
>look so healthy, nice and bushy etc. I've pampered them so, and I'd
>hate to
>lose any now, any suggestions?
>
>Dot Geib
>in Pitt Meadows BC Canada
>USDA Zone 7/8
>
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