Pics of your seedlings

[Nightowls]

I am trying to plan what seeds to start indoors and I am worried that I would not have room for everything as they mature.

So, if you'll can post your pics of your seedlings - noting what they are and their age - it would be greatly appreaciated.

[applestar]

mine are posted here
http://helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50775

What are you planning to grow? Different things are started at different times and it's possible to stagger them depending on what they are and what kind of growing conditions they need. I just shuffled my broccoli seedlings out to the unheated neary freezing garage to make room for tomatoes and other seedlings that are starting to sprout. Peppers haven't sprouted yet even though they were started before tomatoes, so for now, they're not taking up much space. Onion seedlings will be ousted next.

[gixxerific]

This is aournd January 2013

This was a few weeks ago

[gixxerific]

It can be a challenge getting everything up in the right amount of time and in the right amount of space. Those pics are of winter growings. I am starting my dwarf toamto seedlings this weekend. They can can be moved away from the starter area early and put in pots to make room for other starters. My main garden tomatos and peppers will go in next weekend. This may be a bit early but I have so many to do I need to do it in waves.

If I had a greenhouse I would wait a few weeks. Than I could start just about everything at once at least tomatoes. But in my cold basement they grow slow and I use that to my adavntage.

You could be starting greens like lettuce, chard, espeacially spinach now. Not really sure what you are looking for in particular. Other things to think about is Brassicas: Borccoli Cualiflower.

I have good luck with scaterring seed in the snow even and having a early harvest of lettuce, spinach, radishes etc. (Better yet right before a snow )

Hope this helps

Dono

[hendi_alex]

About a month behind last year's schedule/progress. The background plants are in 1 gallon nursery pots. A couple of community pots are in the foreground. Will move those to individual pots when true leaves arrive. Have three other community pots on the heating mat but no germination yet. Will continue to start community pots every couple of weeks from now through mid March for April planting. Will continue to plant replacement plants for tomatoes through mid summer.

The highs are supposed to remain near 60 or higher for the next couple of weeks, so hopefully these rather scraggly looking plants will start to grow very quickly and will get both thicker and greener.

[rainbowgardener]

I start way more than I really have room for under my 16 linear feet of lights.
I do it by succession planting. I started the cold weather stuff mid January. So a lot of that stuff, cabbage, broccoli, alyssum, is now out from under the lights, getting hardened off. Currently they are going out in the daytime and coming back in at night, but I don't put them back under the lights, so that freed up space under the lights for the later started stuff.

That process just continues. I have been planting new things (see my Started Seeds thread) every week or two ever since. So I will keep moving more things out and planting more. Celery will probably be next to go out The last things to be planted will be the squashes, but by then a lot of the other stuff will be planted or hardening off outdoors. It takes a bit of planning and knowing optimum temperatures, germination times etc, but I grow easily 600 plants that way, maybe more, between mid Jan and first of May. I already have right about 300 little plants either in pots or in individual cells and my seven varieties of tomatoes haven't even sprouted yet.

I start them in little cells and then transplant to 3.5" square pots, with 18 of those to a 10x20" tray, so that gives you an idea of how much room each one takes up.

[IndyGerdener]

Dry seed 11 days ago (Ghost peppers)

Dry seed 25 days ago (Green Bean)

Dry Seed 26 days ago (Ghost Pepper)

Dry seed 23 days ago (Jap Pepper)

[Ohio Tiller]

Brussel sprouts 11 days old they came up alot faster then I thought they would.

[rainbowgardener]

They need more light!

[rainbowgardener]

PS since my space is limited, I would never have giant plants like gixx's still under the light. He was growing indoor tomatoes through the winter (very impressive!).

Just growing seedlings to plant out in the spring, I usually don't up pot them from the 3.5" pots; they stay in those until they get planted in the ground. Occasionally if my tomatoes are getting too big, I move them into the red solo cups like Indy showed.

[Nightowls]

Thanks for the replies and the ruler Indy

Since I was really impatient, I did start a 20 cell tray of, what I hope is, frost tolerant veggies (x4 Broccoli: Major Hybrid & Strawberry Spinach, x2 Broccoli: Romanesco, Swiss Chard, Cabbage: White, Cabbage: Jersey Wakefield, Pak Choi, and Florence Fennel) so I can chuck them out early.
And I just might try gixx's snow seed suggestion - last frost isn't till April 20th and the snow should be gone in a week or two, enough time for some quickies.

I am planning (note: hoping) to grow a little bit of everything. Inside, I really want to get a jump start on some tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and squashes. Last year, I put out some small seedlings and the snails got them - proper transplants should survive them, right ?

The only places inside that I can keep the plants are on top of the fridge were I jerry-rigged a grow light and the angled ceiling is one to two away. And on two 2 ft x 4(?) in windowsills (south & west facing). The windowsills are the double window kind, so it has an exterior window/screen and interior window; the interior window would have to be closed because I have three young and curious cats. And hence, the worry about size.

[684]

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Tomatoes 4 days after planting. This is in the afternoon...that morning i went to tend to them and one plant was visibly sprouted, 7 hours later almost every cell was up.[/img]

[erins327]

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This is last week (so growing about 5-6 weeks at this point.)

I would say since I started fertilizing, they are about 30% bigger than this already. March 15th here we come! (Our no more frost date!)

[Cola82]

Basil and tomatoes--I know the tomatoes look a little yellow, but I think it's just the light I have them under. When I look at them in natural light, they seem greener. They are a little spindly, though, so I left the window open for a while to get a cool breeze on them. I've been keeping it too warm in here, I think.

I'm extremely eager for my basil to get true leaves--they sprouted more than a week ago and haven't grown more than 3/4 of an inch. I know, I know, be patient. ;p

[rainbowgardener]

The tomatoes are a little taller and thinner than we would really like for not having true leaves. The breeze can help toughen them up, but the tall and thin is an issue of not enough light. It is difficult to grow good tomato plants with just window light. Is there a way you could add some artificial light?