While I‘m officially on a seed ban for the remainder of the year (though my wishlist is still growing), the damage has already been done and I‘m in distress trying to figure out where the hell to put all of these babies.
This is 3x 90 varieties -> 270 plants + about 20 x 13 varieties that I saved last year‘s seeds from to see if I could grow them to give away to friends and family.
(Varieties listed in the last 3 slides)
For the ones we‘re planning on keeping I sowed 1 seed per cell, the ones meant to be given away were sown in multiple seeds per cell with the intent to transplant them into individual pots. They were all planted only 2 days apart.
While I‘m sure I‘ll lose some of the 2nd gen ones because I transplanted then too early, there‘ll still be a whole lot of them.
However I don’t think I‘ll be taking that approach again – while initially space saving, repotting them took forever and the 2nd gen seedlings are significantly smaller than the ones that started out in their own cell from the get go.
They‘ll likely (hopefully) catch up but still.
I‘m excited to see how everything will progress, in the meantime I‘ll be ~~stressing~~ planning where the hell to put all of these plants, if you have any suggestions I‘m all ears, I‘ve added an „illustration“ of the space more or less available to me plus the size of the planters I have (I was thinking two plants per rectangular planter; please excuse the mess)
Happy growing everyone! 🍅
by OnlyBetterFromHere
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That is a lot of varieties. If you grew most/many of these last year, I wonder if any have cross-pollinated. Not familiar with the vast majority of them.