Posted on 04/11/2014 12:34:19 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I ordered them from Burpee and they came a couple of days ago - three little cups. I put them under the grow lamp and watered the three cups. These stems are really little and long with leaves and definitely limp. No growth is standing up.
If each little stem is a separate plant, then they are horribly clumped together, bunches in a cup.
“grow cilantro microgreens”
I have no idea what that is - tell me.
You lost ALL your tomatoes? ALL your jalapeno plants?
I’m still not happy with the four tomato plants I originally planted - they look to be stuck at this growth level. I have some Jobe’s tomato spikes, think I will stick some in that soil and see if that does any good.
OK, I’ve looked at Cilantro plants on the web. Here’s what I’m going to do, unless one of you says, “DON’T DO THAT!”
I’m going to take the whole plants with soil out of a cup. Then, I’m breaking the roots apart as I suspect it’s a mostly root bound glop of soil. Then, I’m planting a few together in fresh potting soil mix in a larger pot than that little plastic cup. There are gobs of these stems but I have many hard plastic pots larger than those cups. No way I can plant all of them but will do a goodly number.
I’ll do this tomorrow so they can be in the sun but won’t be in sun by mid-afternoon. Will leave them more in sun the next day. If they live, they live and if they die, they die.
I’ll do that with each of the three cups but I’m going to have a zillion left over. I have zillions of hard plastic smaller pots that are bigger than the little ones the plants are in, so I could fill a lot of those smaller hard plastic ones
forgot you on 304.
It's just starting over. In theory, I could probably have 4 rounds of tomatoes and peppers if I worked it right. One becomes philosophical about these things.
I think you are on the right track with the cilantro. They need big pots, at least 1 gallon pots.
/johnny
I think they sound awfully neat. One doesn’t often think of plants as “walking” to another locations.LOL
Should be ok under the hoop protection. The little ones probably just need a little more growth time.
“It is the stage of veggies/herbs between sprout and seedlings”
Maybe you meant sprouts - I have the whole setup to grow sprouts. However, reading that website says the cilantro has to be grown in soil so that’s no better than I have right now - the plants in the soil. I’ll try to get these to live.
LOL. I just spied your post again, and all of a sudden I got this visual image of an giant onion kinda like Tree Beard, in Lord of the rings, One of the trees had fire in the upper branches, and it bent over and dunked it’s head into the water. LOL
“I think they sound awfully neat. One doesn’t often think of plants as “walking” to another locations.LOL”
Seeing that new growth bending over was the highlight of today. See, I don’t have a life, that’s why walking onions is the highlight of the day. :o)
On that other thread, it was the engineer I was talking about. I did have to get his credit card where he left it and send it to him.
Sounds a lot like my husband. Folks have always considered him to be the classic “absent minded professor.LOL
Sprouts are about a week younger than microgreens...
Marcella, if you’ve ever grown flat leafed parsley..that’s the closest thing I can think of how Cilantro is supossed to look..
BTW, I bought my daughter a pkt of Burpee’s Microgreens, and on the envelope it said. seed to harvest in fifteen days. She planted them, but then forgot they were microgreens. She told me she forgot to harvest them.
How is your little bottle baby puppy doing?
How are you doing?
Getting more sleep?
greeneyes, the two largest cucumber plants that were lying limp yesterday are standing up. I had stuck a bamboo stick in both of them yesterday and leaned the plants onto those sticks and both of them even have a tendril wrapped around that since last night. Those are okay, thank goodness.
About the Egyptian Walking Onions: I looked more closely at those this morning, and there is a small bump just before the new growth that is pointing down. Those little bumps have to be the onion.
Strawberries are beginning to turn red but there are still babies forming throughout the berries. I take the net off them during the day and put it back for night as the birds (and squirrels) will come after them in the early morning when I'm not downstairs and also guard dog Prissy isn't up to watch out the door.
I did stick two Jobe’s tomato spikes in each of the tomato large planters yesterday. Maybe they will start to grow, or not. The four are about a foot tall. They were planted in fresh potting soil mix. Each one is a different type. Maybe they don't like each other - there are two in each very large tomato container. Those containers were made for two tomato plants in each one and they are very large.
Hi! Thank you for asking. Chainsaw was six weeks old yesterday! Hubby relieved me so I slept through it. Will post photos as soon as I find Photobucket password. (Any previous organization went down the tubes with the arrival of puppy lol!)
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