Congratulations! Your new seedlings look great and they are not leggy. That's pretty rapid growth for two weeks--your growing environment must be close to perfect. Nice.

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know everything looks good.

Excellent!! Couldn't be better. ;) Just be sure to watch your moisture carefully as peat pots can wick water and strip away most of the peat pot when you plant them. Perfect first job.

Dave

Yea deciding when to water and how much has been the most difficult thing for me. I read so many different things about watering seedlings-water from the bottom, water with a spray bottle, wait til almost completely dry....How do you recommend watering?

Also, should I be "feeding" or fertilizing my seedlings?

Wow, those look great. I planted seeds for the first time on the 10th, and look nothing like yours. Small and puny

What variety of tomatoes are your growing, they look very healthy.

George

ninamsb,

Actually, for a beginner peat pots are great for helping you determine when to water. When the pot itself is dry and light brown, it's time to water. The other thing, they do dry out more quickly, so you have to watch that carefully, but this is your friend too. The quick drying helps control over watering. I agree completely that you should remove the pot before planting--they do not decompose quickly and the roots don't always "grow right through them" as the marketing material says.

The seedlings in the pictures are some seeds I got from Home Depot-
Burpee Roma Tomato-determinate
and
Ferry Morse San Marzano Tomato-indeterminate

I recently started some Heatwave II tomato seeds which I'm excited about-I'm told they grow great here on the gulf coast. Hopefully these seedlings grow just as well.

Thats for the advice about removing the peat pot before planting. I was undecided if I should remove it. A couple roots are already growing through the peat pots! I just don't want to yank the plant out of the pot which is going to tear the roots some I'm sure then the plant suffer. Tomato plants don't mind the roots being disturbed?

I would carefully cut or tear away the pot from the root ball, and any roots that have grown through I would break off. I think pulling it straight out of the pot might do more damage. Not sure though as I haven't used peat pots before.

Oh I forgot...I'm also growing tiny tim seedlings. They are the 2 on the left bottom picture.

Might I suggest you consider "Super-Cropping" them?

Here's a link:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tomato/msg1222213220075.html?63

I'm a hydro grower, but I use "static culture" with perlite. I visit this 4m quite a lot; it's a great place to learn new tricks