Growing some early tomatoes 2020

[quanglewangle]

Your photo link doesn't work?

They look very yellow?
Where's your gardeners delight?

I know - it's embarrassing. I am moving to a different server and it doesn't plan nicely with the forum's BB code.
Here is a link to the full res one. http://fimblefowl.co.uk/uploads/2020...toMandarin.jpg

Gardeners' Delight is the one to the left of the frame. Will post better pics after lunch and snooze.

The cucumbers are less yellow than a week or so back.

Were you trained by mrs quanglewangle? I can just hear her voice...

[veggiechicken]

Would be interested in views on pros and cons of planting them in beds now. (In same greenhouse and beds are warmed about the same temp as sand tray)

They look too small to move on to beds. Are there any roots showing out of the bottom of the pots?
I start mine in small modules and work up to pots the size of yours. .

[quanglewangle]

They look too small to move on to beds. Are there any roots showing out of the bottom of the pots?
I start mine in small modules and work up to pots the size of yours. .

No roots out of bottom yet. Thanks for helpful advice. Will wait (try to, anyway)

[veggiechicken]

Be patient! Still plenty of time to sow more (like normal people who haven't sown any yet.)

[quanglewangle]

Your photo link doesn't work?

They look very yellow?
Where's your gardeners delight?

Once more with delight - Gardeners' that is.

And it's got roots out the bottom, so I CAN plant it out.

[londonvegpatch]

Anyone had any luck growing Millefleurs? I showed some on 09/02/20 but they failed to germinate and I’ve had some luck with chitting on damp paper towel but still only 50% success. They’re in soil now but have yet to break through.

I sowed some Stupice on 09/02 and they’re now looking great and chitted some more when I did the second batch of MILLEFLEUR; I now have more Stupice seedlings - but just wondering why my Millefleur are being so shy?

[annie8]

Having great success with chilli germination from my new propogator but less with tomatoes. Have had pretty good success in the past with tomato seeds in modules covered in a plastic bag on the radiator. I'd thought the propogator would be better but starting to wonder.

[Scarlet]

Are they fresh seed Annie?

[annie8]

Mostly from last year and the green grapes and black icicle were from you.

[Sylvan]

I sowed some Scotland Yellow at the beginning of January and put them in my new propagator. When none had germinated by the beginning of February I sowed the rest of them.
Still nothing, and I have none left

[veggiechicken]

How old were they, Sylvan?

[Hatgirl]

I had some low germination rates with some seeds. They were pretty old. So for the next round I put a smidge of liquid fertiliser in water and soaked the seeds for 24hours before sowing them. Got full germination!

[Sylvan]

They were at least 5 years old and had been in a steel shipping container for a couple of years while we didn't have a house or garden so they were probably baked to death.

Soaking in liquid seaweed sounds like a good idea. I'll try it with some of my other old seeds.

I have some cuttings that I overwintered (Glacier, Black Opal, and Golden something - I refuse to go into the other room to look - it's only about 7 degrees in there! )
Does that count as early?

[veggiechicken]

Not sure whether its early or late!!
Good going to overwinter them - I never have the patience!

[Sylvan]

I had to plant everything out at the end of May because we were going away, and we had a frost in the first week of June, but luckily I had planted them deep so a few eventually came back from below ground. Sadly they didn't have time to fruit before the September frosts, but they weren't quite dead so I whapped off the tops and stuck them in water till they grew roots
Didn't really do anything else, other than potting them up and occasionally breaking them with the curtains...