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A little perplexed about the Florida forum archives?

12 years ago

A while back you could pull up archived messages on this forum for several years, then poof! I guess the traffic is just too heavy, now it seems a search here will only net you about 6-12 months of information, but IF you've bookmarked the message you can retrieve it forever and share it when ever you want. So, I thought I'd try a Google search and while I could find the old messages and attempt a response to try to resurrect the post, they don't show up here, go figure!

Case in point here :-(

Tom

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Minderella
12 years ago
It went back to sept 09 for me. Is that when you started the post Tom?
gardengimp
12 years ago
Yes, I noticed that also. Very odd. And, I started my broccoli seed under lights this past weekend.

~dianne
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whgille
12 years ago
Tom, I really have not look at the archives but about your question on the fall vegetables like broccoli, it is better to succession plant them a little at a time.
I usually start mine in a big container and after that I put them in the garden.
Broccoli can benefit to an early start since they take a very long time to grow.
If you start your own seeds and supplement with good quality transplants bought at the nursery you can have a longer season. When I saw the way they grow seedlings at Knox nursery, I learned that they put something on the seedlings to make them short and bushy, of course they did not say what it was.-(
I will start broccoli the first days of August.

Silvia
tomncath
Original Author
12 years ago
It went back to sept 09 for me. Is that when you started the post Tom?

Yes, that's when it started. Doesn't it seem odd my new response is there but the post isn't here?

I usually start mine in a big container and after that I put them in the garden.

Not in the solo cups? I started them from seed directly in the 3.5 gallon containers they would stay in last October but I think they took about 120 days to maturity...I don't want to be that late this year but can small plants tolerate our heat now?

Tom
whgille
12 years ago
Tom, sometimes I use big containers when I want to grow a lot of seedlings but if I just want a few I use the solo cups. You can either transplant to a bigger cup or directly where they are going to be.
Here are the big containers, you can use the Pantera bowls to start them.

Silvia
tomncath
Original Author
12 years ago
Cool Silvia, I'm a firm believer in disturbing the roots as little as possible during the pot-up process so I think I'll start them individually in the solo bathroom cups since I usually only do 6-10 buckets with two plants each.

Tom

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