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| The weather is supposed to be nice and warm for the rest of the week, the beds were prepped and the ground was nice and moist. So I decided that I would take a huge risk and try transplanting my poppies today. I have read that they need to be transplanted early and mine have hit the first true leaf stage.
WOW! They may only have one real set of leaves that just popped out two days ago, but wow - those are some enormous roots! They're already about 5 or 6 inches long. And on such teeny, tiny baby plants. I couldn't believe it. Then I moved on to transplant a few things in the vegetable garden (kale, broccoli, lettuce, chard). I'm probably pushing these and should have left them in the containers longer - but couldn't help myself. Again - those roots! They're unbelievable. I hope everything takes. I only did one container of poppies today because I was too scared of killing them all. |
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| Sounds to me like you should be fine, Cab - be sure that, if you do get warm weather over the next few days, you keep those tiny babies well-watered. I have already lost a few - only takes one day here, as the soil is clay that gets rock hard when it gets dry. I think in your zone you have done exactly right - all the veggies are cool season veggies - I am eating lettuce & radishes from my zone 7 garden, but broccoli raab and toy choi are bolting already. Now the fun begins for you! |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Sun, Apr 24, 11 at 21:44
| I'm a newbie Ws'er Cab. Sounds like you got some healthy plants. Post a picture if you can. Per chance, did you use any mild/low fertilizers? I used Neptune's Fish Emulsion. That's what I account for my root growth. |
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| WS seedlings unusally large root systems. Awesome. |
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| What Trudi said -- the huge roots are not uncommon for WS. Planted my hos poppies Sunday, as well as some malva, hollyhock and convolvulus and all had nice roots. Caryl |
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| Ladyrose - I used Sta-Green potting mix with some moisture retention stuff. No extra fertilizer. I'd read about the root growth, but still never expected what I found. My poppies haven't wilted at all - it's been very moist/rainy and not very sunny - probably perfect weather for the transplants. My potting mix totally fell apart when I dumped the sprouts out, so my hunk o'seedlings got planted out in ones and twos. Not very hunky. I'm so excited about what's to come! I've only planted out about 10 of my containers and I have over 100. |
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| fantabulous root growth is one of the expected boons of WSing! sometimes it looks like nothing is going on up top, but underneath .... look out! |
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