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Container plants not getting larger....help?

16 years ago

I planted from seed for my first time. I had all my seedlings to about 1-2 inches by 2nd week of April. I planted my first ones into containers (again for my first time) about 1 month ago. In that one month, I have seen no growth other then some of my zukes have flowered, only to lose them, which I understand can be normal.

I have 3 types of tomato, two types of peppers, cukes and zukes. I moved them from the starter trays to beer type cups with Al's 5-1-1 mix and then into containers with the 5-1-1 mix. I didn't add any CRF to top of container, mainly because I didn't know what to use at the time. I added lime to my first batch of container mix but now see I used pelletized lime. Not sure if that is the same or not, but the bag doesn't say anything about dolomite on it.

I have fertilized about every 3-4 weeks with a weak solution at first of MG 15-30-15. I have since bought MG 24-8-16 but have not used it yet.

The weather started out fairly warm for May in MN. It has since cooled off from the 50's at night to 70's at day.

Any advice I can get to move my plants along would be appreciated.

Here is a photo of my first containers with 2 zukes, a cuke and a tomato. This is how they have looked for a month.

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Here are my cups that haven't been planted yet. Shouldn't they be bigger then they are after 2 months of growth?

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