I planted these on February 28th- I didn’t write down when they officially germinated but I remember it being around 6ish days. Pretty quick. The first picture is from march 12th. The second through fifth photos are today march 21st. I feel like they should be way bigger than this. The sixth photo is a screen shot of the set up I have them under that. It says the lights are 150 W. I was thinking maybe that isn’t strong enough- but when I look at the review photos, a lot of people have vegetables growing beautifully under this same set up. So I am thinking it’s something that I’m doing wrong. I bought clear solo cups & black kow soil to transfer them into (even though in my last post, most of you said not to transfer yet) do these look stunted? Any insight greatly appreciated! (Also, what is the white stuff growing on top of the soil in that one photo? It’s only in one cell, I don’t see it anywhere else)
by strangesticouldfind
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Honestly they look pretty leggy. How far away are the lights?
So far Best best looking seedling 🌱 a Litle leggy but I don’t see a problem.when you move them to a bigger put have the light slightly higher or closer.
They’re definitely a little leggy and a little less developed than they should be at that age. Not necessarily “toss ’em & start over”, but they should be a fair bit further along by now. The lighting is clearly not as intense as you’d want it to be (the legginess is the tell there, of course)
For context, these (disregard the peppers in background; they were started much earlier) tomatoes were sown on March 3rd:
https://preview.redd.it/eyjvktpi53qe1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad25bac12aa9118b90ff019285173ff6977b23cc
(They’ve been getting taken outside for natural sun when the weather permits, but they’re not really any larger than they would be if I wasn’t able to do so this year)
Mr. Wild Boar is eating well this year, I see.