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This totally explained what I was messing up!! This is my first year starting seeds indoors and my plants were tall, skinny, weak, and failing to thrive when I was trying to do what I thought was hardening them.
THANK YOU!! Just three days into the method you described and they are drastically better!!!! Your videos make a difference!!!
I just think you're the bestest.
I love your channel I have a backyard garden and I am growing a lot of tomatoes and peppers, corn, collard greens and different kale.
Where are your trays/ seed pots from? I bought plastic trays for my seeds and the pods are so tiny and needed to be transplanted pretty quickly to bigger pots because they weren't ready to be hardened yet but were infringing on each other. I also love how they are brightly colored…. makes the little green seedlings and plants pop. (:
Great advice, I had no idea! Thanks!
I'm so glad I've been sort of following this advice. My tomatoes have been in a greenhouse during the day and I check on them throughout the day, but we've been into freezing temps yesterday and today and I decided to leave them under the grow lights in my basement.
I'm going to begin introducing them to direct sunlight as soon as it warms up a bit again. (later this week, maybe?)… Thank you for your continued advice!
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I am in ILLINOIS and we have a 30% chance of snow next Tuesday morning.
When I harden my plants off I put them put in the shade behind my house where my yard
Gets no sun.then. I slowly move them into places in my yard where they get a little more sun and wind every couple of days.
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Thanks so much, Jess! I’ve learned a lot watching this inspirational explanation that has left me wanting my dream of building a small greenhouse on our farm more than ever! I have only bought vegetable garden plantings to transplant into our gardens in the past and only direct seeding flowers such as zinnias into the perennial pollinators garden. I collected a lot of perennial seeds that I may try planting including echinacea, black eyed Susans, and more. I’m looking forward to future attempts growing my own little seedlings indoors from my collection of seeds. Fortunately our local garden center does the good work of hardening so I’m hoping they will have what we want to plant. I know now though that I can do this process with the tomato, pepper, cucumber, etc. plants over this last week before the date we usually anticipate as a safer time to plant here, April 25 ,in our zone in the Piedmont of N.C. It’s usually the earliest to place new plants into the the raised beds where the soil is warm enough though it has been low 40 degrees F over the weekend. I wanted to just put the melon and tomato seeds from last year into the soil, as well but wondering if it will work then? Take care, hang in there, I know y’all will do great things in this year of changes ahead. God bless!
I really need to start watching your videos before doing anything. Lol.
My first year with a bigger garden and I may have needed to do a little more research.
What a great tutorial, you thought of everything I had wondered about, thanks. Right now what I've been doing is starting them all a bit late and carrying them out everyday because I don't have a grow light or greenhouse functioning yet, so I think they are hardened off already by the way I have been doing it. I'm about to get our greenhouse going for the next round of plants though. I like your idea about using the nights and evenings. Thanks for sharing with us.
Got preoccupied yesterday and scalded alot of my babies! Wahhhh
Ive never heard of this!! No wonder my plants dont do well!! Thanka
This was the clearest explanation of hardening off plants and I finally see what I was doing wrong. Thank you!
How tall do starters need to be before hardening?
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Not just sun but wind too. Last week I had a flat of tomato seedlings that I'd grown under lights, with fans, were nice and strong. I'd had them in and out of the house for several days and left them on a covered, shaded porch last Friday, and left to run errands. We ended up having 65 mile an hour winds while i was gone (I got windburn at the nursery where I was browsing!). I came home to find my tomatoes shriveled up and dry as a bone, despite being well watered the day before. Luckily I've been able to salvage most of them
"Nobody said it was fun" Don't have to. Gardeners KNOW it's fun.
I actually came back to take notes. I've always felt so confused about hardening off my plants and done a terrible job. But not this year! Thank you so much!
Hey! Been loving every one of your videos! My name is Jess and I have a brother named Jeremiah! Just wanted to drop a comment to say hello and thanks for all the awesome and helpful tips! I just bought your book and an extra one to gift to a friend 🙂
I have struggling peppers now. Same look as your tomatoes. I made a bad boo boo. Fingers crossed.