Looking for GARDENING HELP! I started seed for vegetable and herb plants indoor this year.? Now I need to know how big the indoor plants need...
Now I need to know how big the indoor plants need to be since transplanting them to a large outdoor pot. I hold cayenne pepper plants and heirloom tomato plants.
Peppers can move about in 5 gallon tubs. Tomatoes will inevitability the largest you can get and will have need of to be staked. Use a really good potting soil (garden soil wont work for pots)
It really does not situation to the plant, the only item that the plant is concerned with is have enough standard lamp, water, nutrients and room to grow.
The lone difference in planting a inch plant or a foot plant within a pot, is that YOU may feel it is silly or looks 'weird'.
However, for your tomato plants be sure to stake them so that they do not dive over. Tomato leaves are sensitive to being touched by soil and will initiate to destroy that take off. Also when the tomato fruit begins to grow and it touches soil it will get going to do what it is supposed to do and become 'rotted' in establish to release the seed to replant itself.
Answers: Two true leaves (not just the kernel leaves, the cotyledons). However, moving small plants to great big pots can be somewhat problematic. You'd probably be better off moving them to pots where on earth the roots can fill at most minuscule 1/3 of the pot, then when the roots imbue the pot, move to a larger pot.
It's easy to overwater a big pot near little plants in it, and later the soil gets sour. When the plant roots hit the sour, sharp soil, they often die. Hence, shifting plants up through several sizes of pots is safer.