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growing toms from seed indoors
thomasleep
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I am growing toms from seed 4 varieties they have all sprouted, they are in a spare bedroom next to the window with the heating up nice and high in that room (75f-80f). I do not have any growing lights and am wondering will they be ok with me just giving them natural daylight each day and drawing the curtains to block out street lighting at night? I even turn them around once a day as they bend toward the light, I am really keen to grow them as naturally as possible and would love to hear if anybody has any tips.
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also I have propagator lids for the seed trays and am unsure if I should still be leaving these on after sprouting? at the moment I take the lids of during the day and put them back on overnight. Any help gratefully received.
Hi. Yes they will be more than fine. I started mine off indoors last year and by the time they went out in early May they were taking up loads of room and really healthy. Light from the window (preferably south facing) will be fine. Mine only got direct sunlight for an hour or so a day.
Thank you so much for the reply, but what did you do about them bending towards the light at the window turn them or just leave them to it?
You can just rotate them every week or so. All my chillies are bent over now but I don't really mind
They can be kept in the propagator until they grow to big for them. Now that they have sprouted make sure you give then a bit of ventilation now.
Mine in the early stages last year
Thanks torg22 it sounds like I could be on the right path with leaving the prop lids off during the day and putting them back on at night, buy the way great idea for 3cm pots to transfer the seedling into, they look like drink cups and I have lots of those and know 3cm pots cost a lot more than 50 drink cups. Thanks for taking the time to let me know what works. Tom
The colour of the cups were good at differentiating between the tomato varieties. Colour coded
I've found tomatoes to be quite robust, you should have success.
will definitely pinch your idea as I have 4 varieties growing too
I went for 2 types of plum tomatoes(fed up buying tins of them) 1 of yellow cherry types and tumbilng tom, I just love the smell of fresh tomatoes
Yellow Pear? They were in the yellow cups! Agreed, I was thinking that the other day, such an individual smell they give off.