Maximize your tomato seedlings (part 2)

Step #2 for maximizing the potential of your tomato seedlings. Follow this simple tested procedure and you'll end up with an unstoppable dynamo of a tomato plant this summer.

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[scottj719]

Does burrying the growing plant work ok with plants started in peat pod for the growing medium initially, then burying them with mix? I saw you recommend this for peppers as well, I have issues with them. I grow them in a window and even started January 15th but had some plants that were just kicking into high production when it was almost September. I either need to start them earlier or maybe this method would help them along. By the way, do you get any watermelons to grow up north?

[Praxxus55712]

@scottj719 Yep you can do this to peppers regardless of what they were started in. I've grown the early variety of watermelons up here but they were the smaller kind that ended up flavorless. This next spring I'll be trying a regular full-sized watermelon variety but bury the nstem as it grows. This allows it to send down more roots and speeds it up. I'm hoping for success this way. I'll be showing the procedure and progress in videos.

[scottj719]

@Praxxus55712 Any ideas on what kind of fabric or material I could use that roots can easily grow through? Next season I'm going to try and start watermelon a month earlier than recommended in a large containter so the roots don't bind. I'd like to be able to pull the whole "bundle" directly from the container and plant it while keeping the roots in tack. Then ideally the roots grow through as they do when you plant in peat pods for example. Just doing what I can to get some mellons.

[Praxxus55712]

@scottj719 I would use cheese cloth. It's a cotton-based mesh that is clean and food grade. It can be folded to be as thick or as thinly meshed as you would need. Either that or a cheap cotton pillowcase you can slice open when transplanting. Watermelon plants don't get hurt from root jostling during a transplant and will even set down roots from buried stems to get stronger as they grow.

[WinterFox155]

thanks man im gona try this method but what i wanna know is will this work with other plants please reply :)

[Praxxus55712]

@WinterFox155 Yes it works with pepper plants to a lesser extent as well as eggplants.

[rwaldorf22]

Amazing and very informative videos thanks SO MUCH for sharing the knowledge!!!!! Highly appreciated sir!!! Hope still havin' fun plantin' away! :)

[scottj719]

My problem for 5 years now, seems that need more time, but I'm using a fast variety. I'm thinking I may have to: Plant the seed even EARLIER in an ice cream bucket of growing material to get the plant big and strong and let the roots grows unbound. Prepare a hoophouse in mid to late april with black poly weed block on the floor to warm the soil beneath, hopefully that gets me a mature plant (that's not root bound) and an enviornment that's warmer than normal 2-3 weeks earlier.

[LuvHealthNConception]

im new to gardening so after this stage of the plant growing once it is ready to be taken out of those little pots placed into a bigger pot do you need to place a stake in the bigger pot? what size should the pot be? and I will not be able to plant them in a garden b/c I do not have a yard or even a patio so how will I keep them growing indoors? thanks Praxx Luv your vids :)

[WinterFox155]

@Praxxus55712 thanks allot man ill try your method and tell ya if it work or not in the next two months.