How to thin your seedlings?
How to thin your seedlings?
You may have read from our plant care tips that with some pods you should leave only one seedling per pod. This process is called thinning and it is essential for some of our fruiting plants. You can find a list of plants that need thinning below.
If you place multiple seeds in each pod to ensure germination. This, however, may create a situation where multiple seeds germinate per pod. For most of the plants like herbs and flowers it is perfect, as it ensures plenty of produce. But for our fruiting plants it may end up being a little crowded for them to flourish.
Thinning is required so each plant would have enough space, light and nutrients to thrive. It also helps with airflow near the plants.
Kindly note and thinning and pruning/trimming are two different processes. In case you are looking to find more information regarding the latter, click here: How to prune your herbs?
- Look at your pod and decide which seedling is looking the biggest and strongest - this is the one you want to keep.
- Gently pull out all other seedlings.
- Pat yourself on the back and look forward to some amazing home-grown fruits!