This just in..

Into pots full of Pro-mix that is.

54. Berkeley Tie Dye Heart
55. Berkeley Tie Dye Pink
56. Flathead Monster
57. Grandpa Charlie's
58. Grandpa Willy's
59. Spuda Yellow Strawberry
60. Spudatula

Maters maters maters

I ended up planting pot number 41 with Tamina and putting them on a heat mat with the peppers to see how it would do. It germinated in the same number of days as the ones not on a heat mat and the seedlings were week and stringy. From now on I'm not going to worry about not using a heat mat for tomatoes!

These were planted on 3/22:
42. Marglobe
43. Marglobe
44. Il Patano Romanesco
45. Il Patano Romanesco
46. Cuore Di Bue
47. Cuore Di Bue
48. Kellogg's Breakfast
49. Chocolate Cherry

These were planted just now:
50. Giant Paste
51. Long Tom
52. Romeo
53. Sweet Beverley

I replanted chocolate cherry, giant paste, long tom, romeo and sweet beverley because the first batches didn't germinate well. Some of the pastes didn't germinate at all. The Kellogg's Breafkast did fine the first round, I just wanted some more to sell at the greenhouse.

Pictures of all the starts (taken 3/21 or 3/22 .. I forget) are here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/jbosmith/MaterStartsMar222011#

More Transplants

Tonight I transplanted a final 6-pack of Yellow Stuffer tomatoes, 3 6-packs of Cueno Giallo peppers, 3 6-packs of Black Beauty Eggplant, 2 6-packs of Alma Paprika peppers, 3 6-packs of King of the North peppers and added 8 Alma paprika, 5 Letchi Tomatoes and 5 Black Beauty eggplants to the empty space in a 50-pack.

I'm impressed that 5/7 of the Letchi tomato seeds sprouted since they got completely dry. The peppers that survived their cooking episode are also really strong with nice big root systems. The only total loss pepper wise seems to be Fuego F1 and they were also completely dried out at one point. Plants are amazing.

Tomato Variety List

1. Chocolate Cherry
2. Principe Borghese
3. Costoluto Genovese
4. Kellogs Breakfast
5. Black Cherry
6. Maskota
7. Vilma
8. Venus
9. Sungold F1
10. Tamina

11. Anmore Dewdrop
12. Anmore Treasures
13. Big Sungold Select
14. Bursztyn
15. Carrot-Like
16. Grushka
17. Hahms Gelbe Topftomate
18. KBX
19. Kootenai
20. Lescana

21. Micro Tom
22. Minibel
23. Morkovnyi
24. Polyarnye
25. Promyk
26. Stupice
27. Sub-Arctic Plenty
28. Whippersnapper
29. Cow Tit
30. Darth Mater

31. Giant Paste
32. Long Tom
33. Romeo
34. Sweet Beverley
35. Ozarna Zebra F4 #125 Kozula
36. Zielony Green #132 Kozula
37. Malinowe Zebra #137 Kozula
38. Black Cherry
39. Green Zebra
40. Yellow Brandywine

Yes, I know Black Cherry is in there twice - one pot full is for Bruce & Betty at Stillmeadow.

Tomatoes Take 1

I'm ignoring the Yellow Stuffers and pretending that these are the first tomatoes I planted this year. ;-)

I did one tray - 10 4" round pots. I sprinkled a bunch of seeds in to a pot, sprinkle dirt over the soil and press it down. Each pot is numbered as is the tray and there's a tag buried in each as well. There'll be no confusion this year - I hope!

#1 came from Boondockers. The rest were all commercial seed packets from the America the Beautiful fund.

Tray 1
1. Chocolate Cherry (Boondockers)
2. Principe Borghese (T&M Taste of Italy)
3. Constoluta Genovese (T&M Taste of Italy)
4. Kelloggs Breakfast (Baker Creek)
5. Black Cherry (Thompson & Morgan)
6. Maskota (Thompson & Morgan)
7. Vilma (Thompson & Morgan)
8. Venus (Thompson & Morgan)
9. Sungold F1 (Thompson & Morgan)
10. Tamina (Thompson & Morgan)

Follow-up to the heat mat incident

Not much more came up in that tray. Guessing everything that dried out died. I did get some eggplant, some more Alma Paprika and a few King of the North. I'm going to give what's there a few more days, transplant it all into 6 packs and take it to Craftsbury.

I took two full 50 packs of Alma Paprika, 4 6-packs of Yellow Stuffer tomatoes and 2 of Black Beauty eggplant up today.

The boxes that Jolly Farmer plants come in are awesome for transporting trays.

Yellow Stuffing "Peppers"

So, it turns out the Yellow Stuffing "peppers" I planted the other day are actually a tomato. The packet says so, I just didn't notice it because of the large pepper-like image on the front! At least this explains why they're growing so fast...

A few days ago I left the humidity domes off the 20 row trays and cooked them dry on the heat mat. I'm guessing I may have killed a lot of the seeds since they haven't come up, but I transplanted the tomatoes out of the tray and turned the heat back on today in hopes that some will show up.

Updates

First batch of Alma Paprikas are doing well in their new 50 packs. Yellow Stuffers are up, Some of the Black Beauty eggplants are up. A handful of Letchi tomatoes are up. The rest is spotty.

I think my 2 tray heat mat is better used with just one tray. It really only seems to heat the edges which means I end up with tall leggy seedlings there before the centers are even out of the soil.

I let the soil dry out too much the other day. I left the domes off while the trays were on the heat mat. Hopefully it doesn't end up killing too many.

Transplanted Peppers

I have 132 Alma Paprika peppers in 50 cell trays now. There are 2 or 3 runts (that never shed their seed case on their own) and a couple that were still seed-bound which got tossed in the compost. There was one more healthy one but I broke the top off. Oops.

Two of the okra seeds are up. Maybe they didn't need to be on the heat mat? They're like an inch tall and big around like a sunflower!

There's also one rather stringy plant where the Yellow Stuffer peppers are. Not sure if it's a pepper or a weed.