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Monday, April 30, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Entry 86 of 290 |
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Plant on the left is about a month old. Plant on right is a few days older and yet lagging a little behind... Vine on left is about 10-12”. It will need support/to be planted within a few days.
The pot on the right is a one gallon pot (I think... But pot sizes are like lumber. They are sometimes nominal not real dimensional apparently.). Its 7 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 tall. I’m calling it one gallon. The middle pot is 6” or so x 7” tall. I’m calling it 1/2 gallon. The last is 8 1/2 or 9 x 8 1/2. I’m going to call it 2 gallons.
I think the roots in the one gallon pot will be sufficiently developed to get it in the ground without trouble. The two gallon pot could work also...If it had two more plants in it. Otherwise, I don’t think the two gallon size would transplant well. They’re easy to handle at the two leaf stage in 1/2 gallon pots but I like the extra size we’re getting without doing much more work when we start early and pot up one more time to the one gallon size. The larger gallon size looks like it’s a good value in terms of getting another 1-2 week head start without much more effort.
Lastly, in some situations it could be an advantage to grow 3 plants in a 2 gallon pot, for selection purposes. The extra two plants would provide more roots to hold the soil together until the final selection.
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