It got nice and warm in upper Illinois so I put these tomato and pepper seedlings out for a little sun, but now I'm seeing bleached leaves and a little sagginess from a few of them and I'm worried that I ruined them somehow. I've never had this happen before!
I'm panicked because I'm running low on time if I wanted to start some new ones, obviously. We normally don't put them in the ground until after Memorial Day (my community plot doesn't even open up to let me break up the soil until last frost, May 6th around here) so I've got some time if I absolutely needed to restart some roasted tomatoes, but I'd be crushed if I just planted things that weren't going to be healthy and lost a year of production.
I have extras (I plan to plant most but not all of what's there) so a few weaklings won't spoil anything, but I need to know ASAP if these aren't going to make it.
My gut tells me that if I wait, they should pull through, and I'll be planting them deep anyway. I could snip the first blooms to prevent catfaced fruits too. But do I need to start new ones now?
by LunarGiantNeil
5 Comments
They look fine to me, and in a couple weeks those cotyledon leaves will be dropping off anyway.
They look great – don’t mind those first leaves, they are meant to die.
you’re fine, they’ll bounce back.
Ditto to everyone else!! Those are fine!
Yeah, those look better than mine. You’re good!