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« on: May 14, 2013, 22:04 »
I planted some tomato plants back a couple of months ago in the greenhouse to which I have since re-potted a few weeks ago.  They are currently only about 4 inches high. Is this normal for this time of year or should they be a bit taller now.  I am going to re-pot them in a week or so in to larger buckets as ther final location within the greenhouse.  Any tips and advice would be greatly apreciated to if I am doing anything wrong or should be doing to the plants at this time of year.

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Re: tomato plants
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2013, 22:16 »
I'm making an assumption that this is an unheated greenhouse.

It's really been too cold to put tomato plants in one, they need a minimum temperature of 10C.

All you can do is hope that things warm up and they take off, but they can be difficult to get going again once they've stalled. Just bear in mind for next year that it's not really into May that you should be considering putting plants into a greenhouse without heating.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2013, 22:00 »
thanks for the advice.  Luckily they seem to have picked up now and are doing pretty well. Not sure if they are as big as they should be as yet prob around a 15" high so far.  The next question I am wondering is should I start to remove some of the lower leaves to allow the plant to grow taller and start producing flowers?

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Re: tomato plants
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2013, 22:03 »
You can remove any yellowing leaves - they've done their job.

Leaves are the plants food factory and you don't want to slow down production.


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