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Potting on Toms

ShepsSheps Posts: 2,103
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Morning all...these shop bought Toms are about 6/7 inches high, so is it the time to pot them on, and is the pot in the picture the right size, or is it too big / small?

Also, should I be feeding at this stage?


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 85,989
    I wouldn't pot on just yet ... they look fine ... I pot on when I see little white shoots appearing at the drainage holes in the bottom of the pots.  And I don't start feeding until the first truss of fruits have set, so a good while away yet. 
    Feeding too soon means you get lots of leaves and not many flowers/fruits which is the wrong way around  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 85,989
    Meant to say ... when you do pot on that pot looks fine ... plant nice and deeply ... up to the first proper leaves.  The final pots will need to be the size of large buckets. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    Fully agree - they don't look as they've outgrown the existing pots yet.  Are they going into a GH or outside, eventually? 
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,103
    Thanks very much, Dove... will do as instructed 😀
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,103
    Hi Bob... going outside in the Quadgrow.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    In that case I'd leave them as they are for now.  If night temps are still too low to plant them out when the roots have filled the original pots, then pot them on into the (15cm?) pots.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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