Tomato seedlings not growing very fast?
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Peter (6b SE NY)
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Fast/slow growing seedlings
Comments (17)Fertilizing seedlings does move them faster, but there are also advantages in not overdoing it. If you're like me, you like to get a feeling for what's going on as soon as possible, and a bunch of dark green seedlings won't tell you much. If you let the fert wear off a bit you can see colors and markings at a fairly early stage. Too much, though, and they stop growing, so you have to find that happy medium. Of course if you're just growing out species and/or planning to keep all of them then it doesn't matter. This is only useful if you're doing hybrids of Neos or some other types with colorful foliage and plan to do some culling....See MoreFast Growing Seedlings
Comments (14)jrod, the Dypsis ambositrae is called the Ambositra Palm. Its from Madagascar and is currently highly endangered due to habitat loss. (My info is coming from the Rarepalms site). It gets 20-25 ft and comes from higher elevation forest (4200-4900 ft elevation) and can handle cold and some light frosts. Its a really pretty feather palm with white on the trunk. The Pinanga batanensis (Batan Palm) is extremely rare, it comes from only one tiny island called Batan Island which is located between Phillipines and Taiwan. There is almost no info on it that I have been able to find in the literature. I don't know how tall it gets, or anything, but I know that my seedling has about tripled in size in 8 months. But then, almost ALL the Pinangas I have installed have been going at an accelerated clip. I planted some of the "Sarawak" blue fruit and "Thai mottled" in April and they have already started to sucker and are almost 3 ft tall. I fully expect that they will be absolutely GORGEOUS in a very short time. I have read that Pinangas as a whole are very underutilized as landscape palms in both So Florida and California, but that some of the more common species have been making inroads into the market as landscape plants. I doubt that any would be really hardy here, so they will all remain greenhouse plants for me....See MoreCalamondin seedling growing unusually fast?
Comments (50)did you grow yrs in pots? what pot size were they in when fruiting started? mine are in 10" still to keep small sized (were 2, I chucked the 2nd last fall though), and I do fertilize with miracle grow and vigoro intermittently. they are on wicks, so continuous liquid feed and they are neither dry nor waterlogged ever. so grow nicely when outside. well, I guess mine will NEVER fruit, 'cause I am in the apt and I have to reduce its size to continue to grow it sort of dwarfed.. it looks good on the balcony as is, gives some shade to caladiums under it. now that I know how to grow it i'll just try to buy a calamondin already fruiting as a small indoor plant: they often have them in Chinatown here. I killed my first one . correction ;)..scale ate it while I was on winter vacation..:(( but the seed was from it's fruit....See MoreSeedlings Growing Very Slowly
Comments (7)Wow, nice temperatures! But yes, they need something. Most likely fertilizer. For just-germinated seedlings, I'd use a diluted version of what is recommended on the fertilizer package, but once they're past the cotyledon stage, you can probably lean toward full strength. You need to just keep the soil moist a half an inch or so down. Water with that fertilizer as often as you need to keep it so. Yes, it's amusing how potting and starting soil vendors use encouraging words without using the right ones. Makes it sound like everything you need is in this bag! The soil you got ensures high performance and reliability with regard to soil structure, and as such is ideal for containers. But oh yeah, you have to add some food. I really think those words, which all potting soil vendors use in one way or another, is deceptive labeling. One might wonder why such soils don't just include some fertilizer. I suspect the reason is that it would have to be a slow release version, and they'd have to admit that, eventually, it would leach out and need to be supplemented....See Moremattttyb
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