Beginner Gardening: Tomato seedlings are curvey, 1 by lycodad

lycodad wrote:
Red - Your system will work too, just a little different than mine. I let them grow out a little bit, then trim off the lower starter leaves once the second leaves look healthy.

Sometimes for tomato newbies I will recommend using Jiffy-7 pellets to start. After 3-4 weeks all you do is drop them into the botttom of 12oz. foamy coffee cups and add potting soil to cover the stems. Poke a hole in the bottom for drainage, though. After another 3-4 weeks or so you'll have a really nice transplant.

Kitchi - Your 3" pots should work fine, just try to get as much stem under the soil as you can.

Al

This message was edited Mar 24, 2009 2:22 PM