Hello, I am new to the scene. I started with a jiffy plant growing kit it gives you a soil pellets and a green house all you do is add seed ...
So I did tomatoes peppers and eggplant .. the tomatoes have 2-3 stems with leaves now the stems look a little thin and weak on the tomatoes there about 3 inch.
So I took one tomatoe and on pepper and planted outside to see if what would happen and the stems of both plants tured purple is this normal ?
what shoud I do ?
Hi peaches -
were you initially growing the plants indoors? And before you took them outside, were they kind of yellowy-green rather than a nice green?
They're still pretty tender plants at only 3" high. Some purply color on the main stem of a tomato is normal.
If you just move them to a more shady spot at first and not expose them to full sunlight right off, they should be okay. They need to adjust to the all-day all-sun growing conditions, else they may fry.
Hope that helps
were you initially growing the plants indoors? And before you took them outside, were they kind of yellowy-green rather than a nice green?
They're still pretty tender plants at only 3" high. Some purply color on the main stem of a tomato is normal.
If you just move them to a more shady spot at first and not expose them to full sunlight right off, they should be okay. They need to adjust to the all-day all-sun growing conditions, else they may fry.
Hope that helps
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One tip I picked up from Walter Reeves is this:
When you put tender seedlings outside trim a few branches from a holly or any other shrub that could stand it and use those trimmings to "screen" the seedlings from the full sun.
I actually "planted" the branches in my raised bed as a screen for several plants. Before they went into that bed I had been carrying them in and out of the weather for weeks. They all happily survived the transplanting and are on their way toward the sky.
When you put tender seedlings outside trim a few branches from a holly or any other shrub that could stand it and use those trimmings to "screen" the seedlings from the full sun.
I actually "planted" the branches in my raised bed as a screen for several plants. Before they went into that bed I had been carrying them in and out of the weather for weeks. They all happily survived the transplanting and are on their way toward the sky.