How to Grow Plants from Seed : How to Thin & Spread Out Seedlings

[hypnos315]

I heard the plant screaming out this is so ugly

[moonshadow112358]

can't watch >_<'

[arra009]

wheres the weed gaytard

[bhauk]

everytime i try to grow tomatoes from sed, they come up grow about 3 inches tall and skinny then fall over and die. What am i doing wrong?

[MELISSA84008]

@bhauk ..soil should be moist at all times when they're babies :)

[lilo621]

He eliminated a poor baby plant by cutting its head off!!! lol

[Z71Ranger]

I'm new to gardening. Can you eat the one you cut down?

[TennesseeUnderground]

@Z71Ranger lol yes i have ,,,,,,sadly

[smallblocksupercharg]

DAM!!! what a sacrifice

[jwbail02]

I figure this way, you lower the likelihood of damaging them, while keeping them intact enough to replant elsewhere. I have a couple basil seedlings I did this way and though they're smaller than the best looking one, they're still healthy. I wonder if they'll just grow at a slower rate or have they hit a ceiling from competing with the larger one for so long.

[jwbail02]

I see the rationale with eliminating the "weaker" seedlings in order for the more healthy one to thrive, but I'm with you guys: why waste what looked like two perfectly good seedlings because they're smaller?

Can't you just space them out a bit more within the same cell, so as to avoid the roots of the seedlings from getting tangled?

[chilledfresh]

The reason you thin out the plants is because as they grow, they compete for nutrients in the soil. The goal is to have a single strong, healthy plant, not two or three weak ones with tangled root systems.

[msskimbot]

how funny....if you leave them all, the survivor will not thrive. Sadly...

[sio42]

dude you just killed a baby!

[JollyMunkie]

"Only the strong shall survive." That is your reinterpretation of "The survival of the fittest." That was a bastardization of Charles Darwin's work by Herbert Spencer. He propagated this belief that lead to Eugenics, that sterilized 60,000 American women. (Hitler also took his views from this thoughts and....)

What Darwin was meaning was natural selection. It is those that are most adaptable that will survive, not the strong, but the adaptable.

Think before you speak, or make a video.

[JollyMunkie]

They looked the same, why not just let them all grow? Spreed the out. I have watched Expert Village over two years, and it doesn't seem as they are very "expert."

Look for the bamboo video, oh what she did to that poor plant.

[youlosez]

I'm against plant abortion! Plants are beings too!!!

[PewPewPwnt]

LOL

[rutsableich]

@youlosez Human beans, for instance

[crip23walk23]

wtf?! the more the merrier

[SeikoPsycho]

what if you want to spread them out?? do u pull them out and plant them in another cell?

btw... this video was hard to watch cuz it's murder =(

[bamboorules]

plant abortion??

[flupmakintosh]

@bamboorules plant the thinnings and give them a chance! you could end up with twice the plants, or not. but if you don't you deffinitley won't

[Whitetiger701]

why plant three seedlings if you're just gonna cut the other two?

[UraniumWilly]

Because there's a better chance that at least one of the seeds will germinate; sometimes not all three will.

[Whitetiger701]

thanks

[MyGeranium]

to asure the seeds actually do germinate

[mypetbirdrocks]

What if all plants lok strong? Is it necessary to clip some away?

[aggalf1978]

i usually wait alittle more then i separate them and plant them somewhere else. goood video thought

[DeepestSleep]

Exactly, this way you get maximum out of your purchase, and nothing is wasted.

[RetroLoco1]

Great tip!! I would have yanked the seedling out and probably killed all the others. I've got a lot to learn about gardening!