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How to Pot Up Transplants

Jon Traunfeld demonstrates how to plant two sizes of tomato transplants. The University of Maryland Extension Home and Garden Information Center's mission is to develop and deliver science-based, sustainable gardening information and solutions through outreach education for better human and environmental health. Send us your plant and pest questions. Our Certified Professional Horticulturists are ready to help! https://extension.umd.edu/programs/en... Explore our extensive gardening content online. http://extension.umd.edu/hgic Hi, I'm Jon Traunfeld with the University of Maryland Extension here to talk to you a little bit about vegetable transplants. We've got a tomato plant that was grown inside. It was started a little bit too early and now the plant has overgrown the container. This is a three inch container. The plant's already reached 15 inches in height and it's not time to plant yet. So what we're going to do is pot up into a larger container. First I want to just gently take the plant out of its current container and show you how overgrown the root system is getting. The roots are growing around the inside of the container. So we've got a pot up and the first thing I would do is remove lower leaves on the plant so they're not buried. And we've gone ahead and added a little bit of good growing mix to the bottom of this larger container and we're just going to pop the plant right in there and start filling it up. This is also a good time to add a little bit of fertilizer because there's not enough nutrients in the growing mix. And now the tomato plant is in a happy new home, it can grow here for another week or two if it needs to get hardened off out on the porch or the deck before you put it out into the garden.