I brought the seedlings outside of their sheltered basement growlight world for the first time yesterday afternoon to start acclimating them to the much more powerful sun and wind of the outdoors. I brought them out for just over an hour just after 3 in the afternoon with partial clouds here and there. Then I kept them in the kitchen for the rest of the day and night by the sliding glass doors which lead out to this deck area where the plants are photographed- out of direct sun and protected from the wind, but still with indirect natural light.
Plants look to be needing a bit more nitrogen will water them with some watersoluble organic fertilizer.
There's one tray of 72 plugs with 3 types of Capsicum anuum variety peppers(Gypsy, Jalepeno, and Sweet Banana), 3 trays of 32 plugs of heirloom tomato varieties - 4 types per tray, and two large trays each with 24 4-inch pots - each tray with 2 types of tomato, so 16 types of tomatos growing!
See this post for the types that I am growing - click on the tomato types, I linked them to the photos on the seed site
Plants look to be needing a bit more nitrogen will water them with some watersoluble organic fertilizer.
There's one tray of 72 plugs with 3 types of Capsicum anuum variety peppers(Gypsy, Jalepeno, and Sweet Banana), 3 trays of 32 plugs of heirloom tomato varieties - 4 types per tray, and two large trays each with 24 4-inch pots - each tray with 2 types of tomato, so 16 types of tomatos growing!
See this post for the types that I am growing - click on the tomato types, I linked them to the photos on the seed site
This tray has 3 types of Capsicum anuum - F2s that I saved from Gypsy Hybrid from William Dam Seeds, and Sweet Banana pepper, as well as Jalepeno grown from seed that I saved (unknown whether it is an open-pollinated or a hybrid variety). Unlike F1 hybrids which exhibit uniform genetic traits, and also exhibit a phenomenon known as hybrid vigor (resulting from having a high amount of diversity of DNA from having two very different parental strains) - F2s are not as uniform genetically, if you grow enough plants you should see some plants which resemble the original parents as well as some other potentially novel combinations of genetic traits - and you start to lose the hybrid vigor phenomenon. So I am growing the Gypsy Hybrid F2s as an experiment to see what the parental strains might look like.
3 types of eggplant - Millionaire Hybrid, Lavender Touch Hybrid, and a third variety which I do not currently recall. Also Sweet Salad Basil and some English Thyme growing in this tray.
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