I posted last weekend about my tomato seedling woes, and I am sure but it's too late to recover them. Is it too late to start from seed again? I'm in zone 7A, Reading Pennsylvania. Here's a photo of what they look like right now.
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The only thing else I could add is that the seeds were a year old.
It typically takes 60 to 100 days from seed till harvest so I say start over…you still have time but go ahead and start your seeds now. I have two plants that died from transplant shock and I restarted the seeds today. I’m in zone 8a.
You’re not too late in 7A Reading, PA. Good luck! 🍅
Seeds ordered. I’ll just have tomatoes until frost.
I’d try and buy at least a plant or 2 from local garden supply co. Then supplement with your later plants.
Not too late at all!!! Next year I’m not starting my tomatoes until April. Zone 7B.
That will survive if you give it coffee and baby it, too. Trim the bottom dead leaves and get it in the ground
I don’t see anything in this picture that cannot be outgrown.
No! I live in MD not far from you just an hour south of York PA. I just started my seeds yesterday. I usually don’t start my seeds until the 2nd or 3rd week of April
You have all summer to plant right before frost. I think you are good
Start over but use some great white or dynomyco mycorrhizae. It’s speed up the process a crazy amount. I seeded march 4th into seed starting trays and by April 10th they had already filled out 4” pots with beautiful white roots ready for planting.
Looks like they need some diluted fertilizer and just watch the new growth and don’t pay attention to old poor leaves. Mine looked the same after not taking well to transplanting into solo cups and covering a bunch of stem and now the new growth looks good. Unless they get fungus, tomatoes are usually beasts at recovering.
>>”Is it too late to start from seed again?”
It will take about 6 weeks until newly-sowed seeds will be ready to plant out. You will need to decide if that leaves you enough time for a crop.