My Balsam seedlings

Hi!

I sowed my Balsam seeds on 10th July 2008 directly on a pot outdoors and most of them (now 7 in total) have germinated by 17th July 2008. Now two of them have grown tall to about 3 or so inches and are yet to give out true leaves (they're just showing on the surface of the opened leaves of the seedling but are yet to show up. I was just wondering how long it'd be before they start actually becoming plants. I'm not being impatient and all that but curious.
In fact, I sowed the Jequirity (Rosary Pea) seeds on 12th July and one of them has germinated on 17th July and two days later they've started giving out an inch of true leaves. This got me wondering if I needed to do something with my Balsam seeds.
Since this is my first time with growing any plant from seeds, I'm nervous as to whether I'm doing things right. Any help of enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.

Mouli

Sounds like your doing everything right so far to me. I have some of them here and they get a rather tall stalk long before they start getting leaves. They sould be getting some more leaves soon, as long as ya don't have them in too deep of shade.

Ermmm.... Not deep shade actually. They get at least 2 hours of direct sunlight and even then I sometimes move me pot to the patch of direct sunlight so they should be getting around 3 hours of direct sunlight max and the rest is shade, but still it's usually hot here (India), if that matters. Just that I was nervous as this is my first time. Will post a pic of it tonight and will update in case of further remarkable changes.

Thanks a bunch.

Mouli