Beginner Gardening: Hardening veggies outdoors - question about low temps, 1 by obsidian468

obsidian468 wrote:
Honey, I may have many future questions for you. This is the first year I've been able to grow anything - mainly because I did a little reading and paid attention. I'm working on a fairly small crop this year, but I'm enjoying it enough that I seriously want to expand big time next year. As long as I'm living at this address, I think I'm going to become a container growing champion. Once I get back, I'll be building the outdoor tables to put pots on (so as to not kill grass).

Actually, one question that you might be able to answer - of my peppers, it's been pretty easy to cull most of the seedlings back to one plant. However, with two of my jalapeno plants that were planted in the same Jiffy seed starter pod, both are looking VERY strong, and, even at this early stage, both look to be potentially strong producers. They're about 5 weeks old now, and will be about 7 weeks old when I'm able to re-pot them. Do you have any advice for separating them from the same pod, or, provided they're fertilized/watered enough, can both be strong producers with stems nearly touching? Below is a picture of said seedlings.