When to pot on your seedlings

[Anniekay]

The quick answer is: when they have a root system developed sufficiently so that the roots are holding the soil in the pot firmly so that when you remove the plant from the pot, the rootball holds together.

This is my Saffron summer squash or gourgette as they say in the UK, which I planted 3 weeks ago. Fast growers, squash.

I use this clear starter pots so that I can easily see how much root has formed.

Now, the test: sqeeze the sides of the pot and see how it lifts out.

This is what you want. The roots are filling the pot, holding the soil in a proper rootball and there are not yet any circling roots. Had I waited another week or two, this plant probably would've been pot-bound. Then you want to go to a deeper, not necessarily much wider, but deeper pot so that your roots will keep going down as is their wont.

Voila' all potted on and hopefully will be a good productive grower.

 

[Tetters]

The quick answer is: when they have a root system developed sufficiently so that the roots are holding the soil in the pot firmly so that when you remove the plant from the pot, the rootball holds together.

This is my Saffron summer squash or gourgette as they say in the UK, which I planted 3 weeks ago. Fast growers, squash.
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I use this clear starter pots so that I can easily see how much root has formed.
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Now, the test: sqeeze the sides of the pot and see how it lifts out.
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This is what you want. The roots are filling the pot, holding the soil in a proper rootball and there are not yet any circling roots. Had I waited another week or two, this plant probably would've been pot-bound. Then you want to go to a deeper, not necessarily much wider, but deeper pot so that your roots will keep going down as is their wont.
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Voila' all potted on and hopefully will be a good productive grower. View attachment 2259

Very helpful tutorial for beginners Annie. Maybe you could start a YouTube channel!! You have to get the names right though. I think you may mean a Courgette

 

[Anniekay]

I've never paid attention to how that word is written until you just posted it !!

It sounds to my ears like
gourgette. Correction noted !!

I'm not computer literate enough to make a youtube channel !! Untechy, I am !!

 

[Tetters]

I've never paid attention to how that word is written until you just posted it !!

It sounds to my ears like
gourgette. Correction noted !!

I'm not computer literate enough to make a youtube channel !! Untechy, I am !!

Well, up in the north of the country ( where @Logan lives) they talk funny, so they might say it the way you spelt it - isn't that right Logan

 

[Logan]

Well, up in the north of the country ( where @Logan lives) they talk funny, so they might say it the way you spelt it - isn't that right Logan

I don't live up north, i live in the west midlands close to Wales.

 

[Tetters]

I don't live up north, i live in the west midlands close to Wales.

Oh no, that makes it even worse ''our kid''

I don't live up north, i live in the west midlands close to Wales.

Isn't the area known as the black country Logan Isn't this video sounding like the lingo up there? I find accents fascinating, but I find this accent is difficult to understand very often. I speak ''Kent''

 

[Logan]

Oh no, that makes it even worse ''our kid''

Isn't the area known as the black country Logan Isn't this video sounding like the lingo up there? I find accents fascinating, but I find this accent is difficult to understand very often. I speak ''Kent''

It's similar.

 

[Zigs]

I don't live up north, i live in the west midlands close to Wales.

My Mum came from Hednesford

 

[Tetters]

My Mum came from Hednesford

Evidently she talked funny too

 

[Logan]

My mum was a Brummie and my dad was from Worcester, they both lived in Worcester and i was born and brought up there with my 2 brothers.

This i copied
The accent in Worcester, England, is part of the West Midlands English dialect, which has a range of variations depending on the region:

• • Rhotic accent: The accent in parts of Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire is rhotic, similar to the West Country accent.
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• Welsh influence: In areas closer to the English-Welsh border, the local accent may mix with Welsh features.
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• Brummie twang: In Kidderminster and other parts of North Worcestershire, some people have a Brummigum twang.
• 
  
• Gloucestershire tones: In Ross, there are hints of Gloucestershire tones.
• 
  
• Evesham sound: In Evesham, in the south of Worcestershire, there is a different sound.

The West Midlands region includes Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire. The county of West Midlands, created in the 1970s, is a smaller metropolitan zone that includes Coventry, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton.

 

[olly-buckle]

I don't live up north, i live in the west midlands close to Wales.

Come on, we know. Past Watford gap it's all ice tundra and polar bears.

 

[olly-buckle]

Back to the OP, I came across something recently that told me I should prick out my onion seedlings when they have just come up and the leaf is still bent back down under the ground; I had always left them until they were much more advanced, they seemed to work, I don't know if they could be better, I'll try some this coming year.

 

[Zigs]

Back to the OP, I came across something recently that told me I should prick out my onion seedlings when they have just come up and the leaf is still bent back down under the ground; I had always left them until they were much more advanced, they seemed to work, I don't know if they could be better, I'll try some this coming year.

I might try that too Olly, I'll be sowing the big onion seeds on Boxing Day as is the tradition South of Watford Gap

 

[Zigs]

The Croccosmia "Lucifer" seedlings are coming on

 

[Anniekay]

The Croccosmia "Lucifer" seedlings are coming on

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I'm dieing to grow some crocosmia but my growing table is absolutely full this time. I even had to buy another grow light to accommodate all the seedlings !!

 

[Zigs]

I'm dieing to grow some crocosmia but my growing table is absolutely full this time. I even had to buy another grow light to accommodate all the seedlings !!

Seeing how they're monocots you could stick a couple in the side of another pot and garden vertically

 

[Anniekay]

Seeing how they're monocots you could stick a couple in the side of another pot and garden vertically

cockeyed gardening !! We should start a thread about that !!

 

[Zigs]

cockeyed gardening !! We should start a thread about that !!

I once gave my mate Paul a sunflower seedling and told him it was a marrow

 

[Sheal]

The Croccosmia "Lucifer" seedlings are coming on

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Not ready for mowing just yet. I grew some Irises from seed years ago that looked just like those.

 

[Zigs]

Not ready for mowing just yet. I grew some Irises from seed years ago that looked just like those.

I wonder if these will come true to type or will they just be a mucky orange?