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Re: more tomato questions

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:10:50 -0800, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've got a question on starting tomatoes indoors.  I'm using five EPS units
>(4 12's and 1 24) and have planted several varieties of tomatoes, a
>tomatillo, 2 kinds of eggplant, 2 pepper varieties, and four herbs.  I'm
>begining to think that it wasn't such a good idea to mix all of these seeds
>as now I've got a lot of tomatoes up, a couple of eggplant and some herbs,
>but I have zero germination on peppers, two kinds of herbs, and three kinds
>of tomatoes.  The seeds have been in for 11 days all the EPS units are
>under grow lights now, although the one with peppers is pushed back away
>from them and still covered with the hood as there are no seedlings up in
>there.  All the others have SOME seedlings, and so I felt I had to put them
>under lights.  The tomatoes that haven't come up are all seeds that I've
>had for three years, and had great germination rates with in the past two
>years.  Should I replace the seed, assuming that the packages got too wet
>or hot at some point?  Also, I've really had poor luck getting my seedlings
>successfully into the garden in the past two year's attempts.  I had great
>luck with direct seeded tomatillos last year, though.  They outproduced the
>tomatoes by far.  Is there a problem with starting tomatillos indoors?
>Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>Regards,
>
>Laurie
>San Francisco, zone 10

Laurie

There is no problem at all with your EPS units. Just transplant your
tomatoes in some 7cm pots, when they are about 10cm transplant them
another time but now in 10cm pots. In that way you will get good
strong tomato plants. Tomatoes need 1 or 2 transplantations. When you
put them outside, don't give them water but wait a couple of days. Let
them lay down as though they were withered. Then you can give them
plenty of water. In this way the first couple of days the plants will
search for water themselves and develop a good root structure. Pay
attention of the heat and direct sun. Peppers don't germinate as good
and as quick as tomatoes, so may be with a little patience (14d) they
will come as well. For the other tomato seeds, I think it is better to
buy new seeds.

André Vanheddeghem
Belgium
andrev@unicall.be
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André Vanheddeghem
Belgium
andrev@unicall.be
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