Seedlings

I grew some seeds in January which i lost. I've sown some more a couple of weeks ago thinking the timing was better but i seem to be having a similar problem of them growing too quickly and leggy.

I have put them all in a 4 tier mini greenhouse in my dining room on a back wall facing a window.

Are they not getting enough light could it be too warm????????

I would appreciate any advice to what i'm doing wrong

Many thanks
Tizzy

 

hi Tizzy,
you have the right idea, but when the seedlings have just emerged, move them from you mini G'house to a slightly cooler, but bright place.
after they have been there for a week or so, or if they look like getting leggy again, then move them to a cooler place still
if you continue to keep them in heat you will get the same thing happen all the time, the heat is used just to germinate the seed.

 

Tizzy, I would suggest that they need really to be on the window sill to get anything like enough light.
Even then, the light coming from one side will tend to draw them towards it.
Its not easy indoors.

 

definitely sounds like a lack of light Tizzy, as advised, move them to somewhere brighter when germinated but obviously not in direct sun.

 

Hi

Thank you for the replies.

Would putting them in cold frame during the day and bringing them in at night do any good or would that totally kill them off.

Tizzy

 

You didn't say what seeds you had sown but if they are half hardy annuals i.e for summer bedding or baskets they cannot stand the low daytime temperatures in a frame at the seedling stage ... keep them indoors for now.

 

I grow my seeds indoors. But I make sure that when they have germinated I get them as close to the window as possible, and rotate the tray every day to counter its growing towards the light.

 

1/4 turn a day is recommended!

 

Thanks again everyone for your help.

My seedlings are now all on window sills that get plenty of light without direct sun.

I have sown a variety of seeds but yes they are mainly bedding.

Tizzy

 

I am attempting to grow some Bidens golden eye.

Instructions say when 2ins tall pinch out the growing point...there are only two small leaves on the top of the stem are these what i take off? or yet again have these grown too quickly?

Thank you

Tizzy

 

could these be seed leaves, not true leaves?
in which case you better wait a week and see what happens , were they too hot do you think, or struggling for light?

 

They are on a window sill in a room where there is no heating on but maybe it was too late when i put them there.

I'll take your advice and wait to see what happens.