Propagation: lessons learned for next year #5, 0 by Grow_Jo

Grow_Jo wrote:
"Is my understanding correct that if you use a large enough container to start you don't have to transplant them until they are ready for the ground?"

Well, I'd say it all depends on how many seeds you start in each container. A lot of us who use milk jugs put entire seed packets in the milk jug and you end up with something that looks like a Chia pet! LOL. I think Trudi recommends sowing entire packets, but I think over time, with experience, we'll all start to figure out which seeds we really need to do that with and which we don't...I'm still going to sow entire packets in milk jugs this winter....

Edited to say that I ended up transplanting a lot of my seedlings, but only because I had to give HUNDREDS of them away...otherwise, most of them were robust and big enough to go into the ground.





This message was edited Oct 31, 2007 7:19 PM