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billyberue

seedling to 1st true leaf

billyberue
10 years ago

Although I have great success starting from seed, one question always puzzles me and all of the seed starting help that I've seen never addresses this problem... When starting seeds I always seed several varieties and many more than needed, and 100% of the time, they will sprout (break ground) at different times, albeit within a week or so. All the help I've ever read on this says to immediately move sprouted seedlings to light, for the obvious reasons. But they also say to never transplant until the first true leaf. So, if I have dozens of seeds planted and the first ones sprout, how do I get them to light without transplanting them and at the same time not disturb the majority of seed still(underground) in the germninating process which is not supposed to be exposed to light? I personally transplant the sprouted seedlings to small Dixie cups and to the light and put the rest back and let mother nature take care of the rest until they sprout.

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