Secondary leaves

All varieties now have secondary leaves and are 1.5-3 inches tall mostly. Ready to transplant to larger pots. I will do 5 inch pots.

All varieties have germinated

All varieties have multiple sprouts.  Coyote now has 2.

It will probably be an other week or two till true leaves appear - then they can be moved to 3 inch pots.  plant up to the cotyledon leaves.  ~april 1?

More sowing

I planted a few more seeds for the varieties that seemed to have few sprouts. All heirlooms were sowed at ~2 seeds per cup; a few were reseeded when they failed to germinate well.  Better boy is a hybrid sowed at 1 seed per well, but seemed to have about 100% germination.    Also, a few seedlings were killed by joshua stomping into my trays, and a couple by mildew, but overall mildewing was not much of a problem.

Heirlooms germinating

All heirlooms already germinating except Coyote.   Note how much faster they germinate with the heat pad - 4 days, while the previous Better Boy seeds took 2 weeks without the heat pad.

Planted heirloom seeds

Today I planted 14 varieties of heirloom tomato seeds in tray format, 2 seeds per cup. (or pot or well or whatever you wanna call them).  About 4 to 8 cups dedicated to each variety.  I started using a heat mat  and kept the tray cover on.

Better boy sprouts emerging.

15 days after sowing.