Hi all,
This is my first year growing vegetables, and planted more than I have space for indoors. I have 4 healthy tomato plants that are nearly 4 weeks old and growing happily under grow lamps indoors. My other 5 have been outdoors for lack of space under my two grow lamps. I didn’t really harden off properly — got a bit overwhelmed with so many seedlings (originally had 32) and kept watering but basically left them on my porch to get some sun and shade. It’s still too cold for them where I am (7b/8a in MD), but they don’t seem to be doing terribly. Some new green leaf growth from the center, although the older leaves have developed purple underneath.
Fertilized for the first time today by bottom watering and spraying the leaves with Neptune’s Harvest fish and seaweed (properly diluted 1 tbsp/gallon).
How do these look? Do they have hope if I continue caring for them outdoors until it warms up?
by bostonbreakfast
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One of my healthy indoor plants, same age
Tomatoes are incredibly hearty. They’ll be fine once they get into “grow” mode. I’ve taken suckers off of one plant and stick them in the ground with no extra care whatever and they ended up producing their own fruit. You will want to put them in the ground or get at least a 5 gal bucket per plant though.
I wouldn’t worry about the purple underneath from the cold. It happens to my tomatoes every year and won’t affect the plant long term. I’m in 10b and my seedlings that I grew outside in February had the same thing, and now they’re huge healthy plants.