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Re: Stan's hot tomato

At 11:44 PM 3/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>What do you use now? I bought a bunch of peat pots in preparation for
>transplanting the seedlings I have started. Not a good idea I guess. Right
>now the seedlings are living in little plastic trays filled with
vermiculite. 
>
Hi, Mike.  I have used those expanding peat pellets, and also plastic
cell-packs. If your plants are spaced well enough apart, and there is
enough depth, you can leave them where they are quite a while, though they
will need nutrients.  You could transplant them to a cold frame, if it's
warm enough in your neck of the woods yet.  Or possibly two or three-inch
plastic pots.  On the other hand, if you are putting older seedlings into
the peat pots, instead of starting seeds in them, perhaps your plants will
do just fine.  I lost most of my plants when they were at the 2- to 4-leaf
stage; who knows how they would have done if they were more mature when put
in the pots.

Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Z 5/6
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