Apart from a few tomato plants, Im growing pollinating plants for my garden. I bought the extra side panels to extend the height of the Vitapod to accept taller plants, but seeing as I'm removing the seedlings after they've germinated, I either don't need them or I'm removing the seedlings too soon?
I have the extra panels too and am using them. My tomatoes, cucumber, chillies and peppers are still in the propagator. Some are in 2L pots now and they are so tall now that I can't put the lids on anymore. If your plants are healthy - that's all that matters It's been a mild spring here and hardly any frosts at all - but not all years are the same.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Tomatoes aren't happy if the temperature drops below about 12C - around here night temps are around that now, so I'll be dismantling my propagator in the next few days for another year and plant the tomatoes into the greenhouse border last week in May
Yours will catch up in no time now it's warming up
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I've never used a propagator for tomatoes. It's light they need more than anything at the early stages, which is why it's also pointless sowing too early. That makes it difficult for getting them outside, or into a greenhouse because they aren't ready to cope, and can be too leggy, and therefore less tough. Mine get sown around mid to later March, get pricked out and potted on, and stay in the house on a south-ish facing windowsill until around this time of year, or about the next couple of weeks, then they go into the growhouse. By that time they're sturdy enough, aren't massive, and the night time temps in there are ok.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Apart from a few tomato plants, Im growing pollinating plants for my garden. I bought the extra side panels to extend the height of the Vitapod to accept taller plants, but seeing as I'm removing the seedlings after they've germinated, I either don't need them or I'm removing the seedlings too soon?
My tomatoes, cucumber, chillies and peppers are still in the propagator.
Some are in 2L pots now and they are so tall now that I can't put the lids on anymore.
If your plants are healthy - that's all that matters
It's been a mild spring here and hardly any frosts at all - but not all years are the same.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Yours will catch up in no time now it's warming up
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
That makes it difficult for getting them outside, or into a greenhouse because they aren't ready to cope, and can be too leggy, and therefore less tough.
Mine get sown around mid to later March, get pricked out and potted on, and stay in the house on a south-ish facing windowsill until around this time of year, or about the next couple of weeks, then they go into the growhouse. By that time they're sturdy enough, aren't massive, and the night time temps in there are ok.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...