🍅How To Sow Tomato Seeds Like A Professional Nursery For Rapid Growth #tomato #garden #gardentips

Learn the secrets of sowing tomato seeds from a professional seed and plant nursery! I share my top 4 tips to get better tomato seed germination and how to quickly grow seedlings to transplant size.

Heirloom tomatoes are my favorite crop to grow. I grow 50+ varieties every fall and spring season so I have lots of tomato garden tips and knowledge to share with you. In this video I discuss the 4 essential requirements (soil, warmth, light, fertilizer), to grow the healthiest tomato seedlings possible. You can easily copy my professional seed sowing process and apply it at home. If I can do it, so can you!

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Hello Gardener and welcome to my Channel today I’m sharing all of my tips as a professional seed and plant nursery on how to sew seeds for tomatoes and get them to grow into nice big healthy transplants tomatoes are my absolute favorite veggie crop to grow I love to

Can tomato sauce Bretta Salsas and dehydrate them they have so many uses in the kitchen so I grow tons of them on average at least 50 different varieties every fall and spring season so I have a lot of tomato growing tips and tricks to share with you today we are focusing on

The very first step to growing tomatoes and that’s sewing them from seed if you’re new here hello and welcome my name is Jara and I teach others how to garden and grow food this video is one of many Garden guides that can be found on my channel where I share my knowledge

About growing food and other edible plants make sure that you hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any of my garden tutorials and lastly if you want to grow the very same tomatoes that I grow in my garden go check out my website because I probably have seeds or

Plants for them all right let’s get into growing tomatoes from seed the first thing we need to figure out is timing when should you start sewing seeds for tomatoes General guidelines that work for everyone no matter what garden zone you’re in is to sew seeds 8 to 12 weeks

Before your last spring frost a using my garden as an example my last spring Frost Aid is the second week of February so I start seeds in the middle of December to give them 12 weeks of growing time and then there are gardeners in warm winter climates that

Can also grow tomatoes over the winter like me here in Florida it doesn’t get cold enough to kill my plants so I plant two times a year at the end of January and again the very first weekend of September or Labor Day weekend I say it

Takes 8 to 12 weeks of growing time because it depends on growing conditions if the conditions are ideal they will grow faster and be ready at 8 weeks if conditions are less than ideal then it takes longer for the majority of us that are home backyard gardeners conditions

Are probably not ideal so realistically expect 8 to 12 weeks you could plant the seedling at any stage really small or big but the smaller it is the more susceptible it would be to the elements and pests so it increases the risk that the seedling won’t survive larger

Seedlings can handle more weather or pest related issues before it finally takes them out furthermore when you plant tomato seedlings into the Garden it is customary to bury at least half of the stem this is a technique to get larger root system size with tomato plants because wherever the soil comes

In contact with the stem it causes roots to grow knowing that I will bury half of the seedling in the ground I like for my plants to be at least 10 in or taller since I’m losing half of that height that is the reasoning behind why I say

Expect an 8 to 12 week growing period okay so you have your target to start them from seed let’s discuss the sewing process the seed sewing technique for tomatoes comes down to four things one soil two warmth three light and four fertilizer if you can Master these four

Things you’re going to grow the best tomato seedlings ever first up let’s talk about soil ideally when sewing seeds you want a growing medium that is soiless which means it is sterile and shouldn’t be inoculated with pathogens that can grow and kill your seedlings and it should also be fluffy so that way

The roots can grow easily look for seeds starting mix at the store or make your own with this recipe right here it’s basically equal parts Pete Moss or cocoa choir with equal parts perlite or vermiculite and then throw in some worm castings if you want the Pete Moss and

Cocoa choir is the soilless growth medium and the perlite or vermiculite just keeps it fluffy you can substitute whatever ingredients you would like as long as they accomplish the same thing these ingredients are pretty easy to find at the store if you’re sewing a lot of seeds it’s more economical to make

Your own than to buy pre-made seed starting mix I just mix a big batch in a wheelbarrow now let’s say you want to use soil from your backyard or even compost it is inoculated with tons of pathogens so you’re not going to get the best germination and will probably have

A high incidence of seedling death if it’s the only option you have then please don’t let that stop you from using it just seed way more than you need to make up for the potentially high amount of seedling loss the second requirement for optimal tomato seedling

Growth is warmth this is a warm season crop if seedlings are exposed to cold temperatures they will get stunted in growth stay super tiny and they might might not ever recover from that even if placed in a warm area later on so remember that Target date for you to

Start your tomato seeds well is it cold outside during that time most likely 12 weeks before your last spring Frost Aid is winter time and still cold so you will need to sew tomato seeds indoors or fashion some kind of a setup to keep them warm outside I can’t tell you how

Many times I thought they’ll be fine growing outside because I live in Florida and we have very mild Winters well no if temperatures drop below 60° F they really start to struggle and they don’t grow as fast also if the soil is cold the seeds won’t germinate so get

Creative with figuring out how to keep them warm think about creating a greenhouse type of environment I get many green houses from Amazon and put a few heat mats at the bottom it’s enough to keep the entire Greenhouse warm and toasty even on the coldest nights of

Winter you can put the seedlings in a plastic storage tote container and put a heat mat in there there are so many ways to do this just keep them warm I’ll put links in the description below to the same greenhouse heat mats and other supplies that I use when I sew tomato

Tomato seeds in a warm environment I usually get germination in 3 days or less and the seedlings grow very rapidly usually they’re ready to transplant at about 8 weeks instead of 12 the third requirement is light and I’m not talking about a little bit of filtered light

From a window again tomatoes are a warm season crop that grow best in 8 hours of full sun or more the average household window is not going to provide 8 hours of full sun most likely none of mine do and I’m located in the Sunshine State a

Classic sign that they are not getting enough light is if the seedling is reaching in an obvious direction towards the Sun or other light source the stem gets elongated while trying to reach which causes odd growth patterns and weak stems that easily break weak transplants make for weak garden plants

As soon as any sea germinates it needs light to photosynthesize and grow again you can use many things to provide ample lights to plants when chopping around focus on light that is 5,000 Kelvin or higher for the daylight range and the higher the wattage the better I have

Successfully grown all of my veggies using using shop lights now I have acquired a few actual grow lights these right here are Mars Hydro 3×3 150 W grow lights I borrowed one from a friend to test out what kind of a difference it makes compared to my shop lights and wow

I could actually tell there was a difference for one the light intensity is way stronger than the shop lights and it provides a wider range of light color that helps plants grow I noticed that my tomato seedlings grow under these grow lights have much thicker stems the leaves are longer and just overall

Bigger I was impressed so I have slowly purchased a few more Mars Hydro lights to at least have enough for my warm weather crops but is it necessary no you can grow good tomato seedlings using shop lights I will be planting these thicker tomato seedlings in a few weeks

So it will be interesting to see the Vigor of the plants and if they end up producing more longterm than the ones I grow with shop lights I’ll definitely let you all know how that goes at the end of my tomato season the last requirement is fertilizer please

Fertilize your ceilings it will speed up their growth and just in general produce healthier seedlings choose a balanced liquid fertilizer of your choice it has to be liquid so the nutrients are bioavailable immediately granular stuff takes time to break down and those nutrients won’t be immediately available

To the seedlings I really like Fox Farms grow big but you can use whatever aggro Thrive super Thrive Miracle Grow whatever you want if the fertilizer packaging doesn’t have Specific Instructions for fertilizing seedlings like this grow big says for seedlings then mix it at half strength of whatever

The direction say if Miracle Grow says mix one scoop per gallon you would mix half a scoop per gallon fertilizing at full strength can burn or kill your seedlings they just can’t handle that yet start fertilizing about once a week once the first set of true leaves appears when something germinates the

Very first two set of leaves are called calans they look kind of round and flat they do not look like mature tomato plant leaves this is something quick the seedling just throws out to begin photosynthesis the next set of leaves are called true leaves because that now

Resembles a tomato plant leaf this is a couple rows of my heirloom tomatoes that I planted the very first weekend of September so they’re like 4 and 1/2 months old by this point they don’t look that great because well it’s been kind of cold we’ve been getting weather in

The’ 40s and that’s not enough to kill them but it definitely slows them down and causes you know certain diseases and stuff to spread I wanted to harvest this one for you guys today though cuz it’s so big this one is called fali it’s an Italian heirloom tomato that is grown in

The area of Pali if I’m saying that correctly in Italy and look at that it’s huge this one’s really good for like sauce making because it is so meaty and it doesn’t have a lot of seeds and I definitely have seeds for this one on my

Website if you want to try growing it while the majority of the country is covered in snow or at least experiencing freezing temperatures I’m out here harvesting my tomatoes I wanted to show you guys another tomato that I’m growing this is Everglades tomato this whole

Thing all all the way here once you have them growing in your garden they recede everywhere I really like to plant it underneath my fruit trees or onion used spaces in my garden so it can ramble and get thick like this it doesn’t let any weeds grow through so yeah if you

Haven’t tried growing this yet give it a try you’re going to be very impressed and if you’re in Florida and you haven’t tried growing this where have you been growing from seed really opens up the world of possibilities because there are thousands of tomato cultivars to choose

From each with their own unique flavor and uses I hope these Tomato Seed sewing tips will help you be successful growing your own seedlings if you have any tips or tricks that have helped you grow healthy tomato seedlings from seed please comment Bel and share your knowledge check out my website for

Details on some of my absolute favorite varieties that are a must grow every season and don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and give me a big thumbs up that helps my channel out more than you know happy gardening and I’ll see you in the next video