[CH] Thinning Seedlings
McWilliams, Dan (DMcWilliams@fendall.com)
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:11:23 -0500
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>>>The day has come for me to practice some serious chile eugenics.
It's time for me to reduce the population of each pot to one plant.
Do I cull the shortest? The one with the fewest leaves? The least green?
Or is there some other decision making criterion?
Thanks for any and all help,
- -- Dan//plotting mass murder
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Dan, before you commit jalapocide, do you have any room to grow more
plants? I hate to admit I actually used to pull those extra pepper plants
out by their innocent little heads and grind them between my fingers but
this year I have had great luck separating and transplanting almost all
types of seedlings when I culled the herd. I just remove the pepperlings,
and other little -lings, and gently transplant. I don't think I have lost
one yet. I usually thin the plants when they are getting their first set of
true leaves but have done some before. So now my wife is really bothered
because of 200 plants in the basement I have 300! Now if I can just figure
out how I am going to convince her to let me till up more of the yard for
garden area.
Best Regards to The List and Happy Gardening,
Dan McWilliams
"The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a
garden swollen to a realm;
his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."
Sam Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien