Honestly did not expect store bought tomatoes to sprout! The four slices I planted from one tomato produced so much seedlings. In just two weeks the seedlings grew so fast the small rectangle container where I planted the slides looked like a forest.
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| The seedlings started to become a forest. |
My friends advised me to re-pot them asap since it wasn't healthy for them to be in just one container. My pots finally arrived late last week so I worked on re-potting the seedlings. I finally did it after work last Friday and here's how it went -
The next few days was a bit hairy for me. I kept the newly transplanted tomato plants in the shade, but they seemed to be experiencing transplant shock. I did some research and found out that the plants were probably looking for the same level of nutrients they were getting from the previous container. I had treated the soil of the container where they sprouted with a mix of crushed eggshells and regular rice wash watering. Plus it probably got good nutrients from the decomposed parts of the tomato.
To relieve the pain my poor tomato plants were going through I gave them some rice wash the next day and they seemed to start adjusting better. I read that tomato plants require a lot of nutrients. I boiled the egg shells I had been saving and gave them some egg shell soup on Monday. So far they seem to be stabilizing already.
I realized transplant shock can happen to your plants especially if you clean the soil from the roots before you move them. It's probably better to include some of the old soil as you move them. Those plants I sprouted in coco peat pots fared better when I moved them to their own pots. The rectangle container where I originally planted the tomato slices has become a bigger tomato forest again! I hope to move them later this week to give them more space to grow. In the meantime I'm treating the soil first so it can be a better haven for the tomato seedlings I'll be moving.
What about you? What was your experience when you first transplanted your seedlings? What challenges did you face?
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