True Leaves

Our true leaves came in! The first leaves that come out when a plant sprouts from the seed are called cotyledons and are actually part of the seed. The 'true' leaves don't emerge for a while (in our case about a week).

The seedlings in the bigger pots are doing a little better than the ones in the small but this is probably due to some other factor like watering or light.

We have tuned our overall setup, added some 2x4s to extend the tabletop to the full length of the shop lights and boosted the whole table up with blocks on the bottom.

New Setup





True Leaves (aren't the little guys getting big?)







These guys are a little smaller




Our herbs are struggling a little bit

Also we never wrote down which order we planted the herbs in. Here is one of the pots. You can play the guess the seedling game.




The basil was easy. I thought the tall wispy ones were cilantro. The really teeny tiny ones are oregano. But I couldn't tell what the last two were. Not knowing where to go next I did the unthinkable. I tasted one of the seedlings (horrors). It was cilantro ; I sure didn't see that coming! So then I realized that what I thought was cilantro was actually dill and the other was parsley by process of elimination. The cilantro and parsley look alike; duh, should have known that all along.

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