toms and cucumbers from seed

hi everyone got bundles of questions right
1st, my cucumbers and toms i am growing from seed are very thin and leggy! the toms are about an inch and only have there first leaves the cucs are alot taller and are on there first true leaf and budding there second.

i have reppoted them into small squshy pots and burried the stalks abit deeper, there are still in the propergator.

is it ok to mix toms and peppers in the same proppergator they wont mate or do somthing wierd?? :confused:

 

If they mate and produce tomato flavoured cucumbers or 12 inch long tomatoes, you'll make a fortune from the seed!!!

If they are getting leggy it's probably due to too little light and/or too much heat. If you have a warmish window sill without too much direct sun they'll come on ok there.
If you see roots appearing in the holes in the base of the pots you'll need to pot them on into something bigger.

 

I think Dave is right
Not enough light

 

thanks dave and whis4ey!! will try and move them somewhere lighter, do you think i should not leave the propergator on permently?

 

If your propagator is outside in a greenhouse you'll need to keep it on at night, but if it's sunny you can take the cover off and switch it off during the day.
Once plants have germinated they don't need much heat, light is more important. But if the temperature falls at night they'll still require some heat to prevent them getting chilled.
I start my tomato plants and cucumbers in a propagator in my GH and move them indoors to a table near a window when they are a couple of inches high. They get repotted into 6 inch pots and then moved back into the GH (which I'll have to heat) and into big pots when they are about 6 inches high. I could of course keep them in the GH all the time but that would mean having to put on heat that bit earlier.

 

i have had my tomatos in the gh since feb thy are on their 3 set of leafs i have got 5 different kinds and thy are all doing well i keep them at between 50 and 55 as long as you keep them at the same temp thy will be fine

 

hey peps, my propergators are on my window sil in the kitchen and are permentaly on, so there is one problem too much heat!! thanks dave, they are still babys not got true leaves yet so i shall turn them down now, they are in there with baby peppers now as i moved the cucs and re potted them aswell. have no way of heating my greenhouse at present, costly expense getting started!!

 

I have found that a grow light is a great tool for getting things like tomatoes going early. I have a dozen tomato plants all 9 inches high and well developed and six very healthy looking aubergines all germinated in late feb in a propergator then moved into my light chamber. I have a 500w lamp on for 16 hours a day. I find its about the same cost as heating the greenhouse but with much better results . I also have a cougette in flower and 6 potatoes around a foot high.

 

well i have put my cucs and toms and peppers from seed in the green hose in the day and brought them in at night the weather has been great and they are getting fatter so thanks for the advice guys and girls

 

Living in the North-East of England, I've always found that sowing Tomato seed before the middle of April is not really worth the bother because the seedlings tend to get leggy due to the lack of daylight and any exposure to low temperatures checks their development. Even when the days are warm and sunny, the nights are often cold and it's hard to give the seedlings the right conditions to enable them to develop quickly into strong stocky little plants, without using specialist equipment. Far better, I've found, to sow them towards the end of April when the weather is warmer and there's more light. They tend to grow at a faster rate and nearly always catch up with plants started a month earlier.