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I planted Roma tomato, jelly bean tomato, petunia wave, petunia dwarf and lobelia seeds on Jan 12th. Roma tomato seedling showed up on the Jan 15th - by 16th Jan evening it was an inch tall...today is 19th it is already around 2 inches tall. It is growing too fast and I dnt know the reason...I am worried it might become leggy.
This was my first time starting with seeds indoors...I planted just very few seeds of each type for experiment and had planned to plant more in Febuary. Dwarf petunia & lobelia have also germinated within a week.

Any care suggestions for these ...I would not want to loose them just because I planted them early.... thanks!

Below are pics of the Roma Tomato seedling: there r 2 photographs - one taken on 16th Jan & the other on 18th Jan - u will be able to see how fast it grew in 2 days!!


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Yes indeed, way too tall and leggy for not even having opened up its leaves yet. Probably means it is not getting enough light. Whatever you can do to add more light will help.

In the meantime be sure you do not add any fertilizer until the situation is corrected. You don't want to encourage its growth right now. I also find sometimes my tomato seedlings need a little help freeing themselves from the seed capsule so they can open up their leaves. If the leaves get a little bigger and still haven't gotten loose, you can try VERY GENTLY pulling on the capsule to see if it will come off, or just snipping it off with nail scissors. Latter will take a little bit of the leaf off with it, but if you pull too hard you will tear the leaves in half. But even if you lose a teeny bit of the leaves, if they open up they will be able to absorb the light better.

thanks, I have increased light and also removed that seed cover holding the leaves together