You can thin now to a few inches apart; and then after they have a couple sets of true leaves, transplant to more rows. Most varieties you want about 18 in apart. Just make sure if you transplant to dig deep and wide enough to get the whole root system. One bad and then good thing about most brassicas is that the seedlings sometimes get kind of leggy and squirrely, but you can actually plant them below soil level an inch or so to straighten out the main stalk--- Kind of like tomatoes. By the way, brassica seeds also keep pretty long also. Bought a pack each of cauli and broccoli seeds 5-6 years ago and just got the last few of them to germinate a few weeks ago. Kevin

i noticed that my tomato seedlings were doing that same thing last night, when i went to check on them after the lights had been turned off.

I'll just post a little background about what i've been trying to accomplish. There's about an acre of land i've been trying to reforest with oak trees but finding seedlings on my land hasn't exactly been easy. Most of the little oaks i've experimented with in the past have died from the transplant and i've found that these oaks are very sensitive to root disturbance. These oaks i've moved aren't invasive (I have trouble finding them at all) but I'm guessing there must have been a twig with acorns on it that got buried, and my watering caused all of the acorns to sprout. I'm by no means a professional, this is kind of just a hobby i've picked up in the last couple years ^.^. Separating them if there were any distance between them wouldn't be a problem as i'd just dig them out with all the dirt. Unfortunately these are within a penny's distance of eachother...and the roots grow mostly horizontally. There being nine of them this close I don't want to risk poking around and taking some of them out without the dirt to go along. I actually overestimated the inches...the diameter of the circle is closer to 3.5 inches, not 5. My main concern is that the growth of the individual oaks may be stunted and while there will be nine of them growing as one, the trunks will be thin and weaker. Do you think this will happen? The attached picture is what i'm trying to avoid lol. That's my biggest fear of what could happen down the road. This post was edited by TheOakMan on Mon, Apr 28, 14 at 11:33

Hi all: 452 Euros for that tiny plant? Then, How much do you want to pay for this one, flowering size, grafting on Myrtillocactus? But there are a problem, if you are out of Mexico you need to pay some aditional costs. 50 US Dlls for CITES Certificate 65 US Dlls for lab test for nematodes 40 US Dlls for Phyto Certificate 40 US Dlls for PROFEPA Validation (The Mexican Environmental Police) 40 to 70 US Dlls for S&H (USA, Asia or Europe) As a result, you need to pay 235 to 265 US Dlls for any shipment of 100% legal plants to any country, plus the cost of each plant, because the costs are the same for one or 100 or "n" plants. But don´t worry, people like Jordi, that import this legal plants (own roots, two years old), is selling at very good prices. Regards. Manuel Note: Joe, try to plant deeper (but not so) to cover the tuberous root.