I was kinda thinking it was too frequent turning like kimmsr says. I'm a bit of a noob so I didn't want to chime in first. You also don't mention how big your tumbler is. Size matters. My pile is hot every morning and I mess with it every day. It is pretty big though. I turn by tossing stuff on the ground and end up with a big pile on the ground that heats up while I'm emptying the bin. It normally takes me a couple days to empty because of my odd habits while turning. Then the bin gets refilled over a couple days and emptied...over and over. I'm weird though so don't listen to me. :-)

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with regards to winter sowing. I think I read you're experimenting Dave? do you plan to repot your WS toms too? Hi buck - yes I did. I let them go longer in their milk jug (2 sets of true leaves) than I normally do those done in seedling trays (I normally transplant at about the cotyledon size in Trudi's picture above) and I only transplanted them 1x rather than the 2x I do with the greenhouse grown plants. She doesn't like coddling and neither do I - it kills plants. But then I don't consider stage transplanting to be either coddling or a waste of time. ;) I don't know enough about gardening to know if this extensive root system is normal for all plants, or enhanced by the WSing. For the most part it is normal for cosmos, they are rooty buggers but it is likely enhanced somewhat by WS too. If the weather permits planting them outside by all means do so. Mine doesn't yet so I would just transplant them to a larger cell/cup. So then,in theory, rather than going through the expense and labor of starting a seed in one pot, only to have to repot up larger, why not take the seedling and just repot it in its own larger pot? Crucial point. Many of us don't start our seeds as you did. If I was to use a 16 oz. cup to germinate seeds in I'd plant at least 15-20 seeds in it, not one. But I wouldn't use one as it just wastes soilmix and makes it much more difficult to heat the soil up and maintain the proper temps for germination. I use shallow seedling trays with no more than 1-1 1/2" of mix in it to start 100's of seedlings - on average 25-40 in each section in the pic below. Easy to heat, better germination rates, and faster germination. Obviously they can't continue to grow in such crowded conditions so once sprouted they get their 1st transplant to individual cells in 6 or 9 packs. Transplanted deeply to just below the cotyledons. Very easy to do at this stage. The cell packs are filled with fresh mix with a mild time release fertilizer added. They grow in those until they develop the second set of true leaves. The they get transplanted again, deeply to just below the bottom leaves, to fresh mix in individual containers to grow to garden time. could I just disturb the plant by taking it out of the cup, and then repotting it back straight into the same cup? Would that disturbance suffice, or do the root systems need to become crampt and then given room to roam? You could assuming fresh mix and deeper planting. In that big of a cup to begin with it should be easy to do. But no, it isn't that they have to become root bound first for it to work. since I have to repot some of the ones that have 2 or more plants growing in the same cup, maybe I should keep notes and see what develops. Excellent idea! ;) And as Trudi said, go with what works for you. Dave PS: billtex: There is positively proof seedlings have setback every time you pot up or out. Exactly, that's the idea. ;) It sets top growth back a bit so that the roots can develop/catch up. End result is a healthier plant rather than a long leggy one that has to be trenched in when planted. As I said above, "If your primary goal is early production then likely stage transplanting would make little if any difference."

did this just recently start happening? did it work fine say a week ago? If you answer yes then probably the easiest thing for you to do is simply go back in time to a date that it was working fine for you. This is very easy and simple to do. Click start>all programs>accessories>system tools> system restore. Open system restore and choose to go back to a previous date, it will open a calendar that has some dates and times showing when you have restore points saved, select one of those dates and restore points when your IE was working fine and tell it to restore the pc to that restore point, it will tell you to reboot do that and it will then set your pc back to the settings from that time. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084 there is some instructions you can copy and paste that into your browser. The other option is download and use firefox browser.