Don't Kill Your Plants! Harden Them Off Like This Right Now!

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On today's 2 minute garden tip, I share how to harden off plants and acclimate transplants started indoors to sunlight. Failure to do so could kill transplants if they were started indoors under grow lights. True sunlight is strong and contains harsh UV rays that plants must acclimate to prior to transplanting. Don't kill your plants and do this first!
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@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" it and share it to help extend its reach! Thanks for watching 😀

@OleensEmbroidery 3 месяца назад

I love your 2 minute tips!

@sherylhutcherson4584 3 месяца назад

I learned this last year. Sunburn is so hard on plant babies

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Sometimes, it downright kills them dead.

@kittyfruitloop8264 3 месяца назад

WOW!!!! What about in a greenhouse? I grew my tomatoes in my greenhouse and thenI hardened them to get used to the wind for a week or two. I planted them in the ground two weeks ago.(Only one fell over with a recent wind storm but it started rooting at the bend so I left it) BUT, I never thought about sunlight vs grow lights!!! You are a wealth of information!!!

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Greenhouse plants still need acclimation. The greenhouse plastic, polycarbonate panels, glass, etc. all block UV, so if you simply carry the plants outside into real sun, they will get smoked. You absolutely must slowly acclimate them. Greenhouses should be considered indoor growing environments.

@Steve197201 3 месяца назад

Finally, someone explained the specifics of how to do this! Every other explanation I've heard or read has been nebulous at best. Thank you for so very clearly explaining the process! 👍

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You're welcome! Glad I could help!

@JohnWood-tk1ge 3 месяца назад

I live in a very windy place. I started years ago wrapping tomato cages with black landscape fabric. My belief is it protects the plants from the wind and helps draw heat to the plants. If you are getting a late frost you just go out with some garbage bags and pull them down over the cages. Sounds weird but it has worked well for years for me!

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

My yard is lined with black weed barrier, not just to suppress weeds, but to create a warmer microclimate for my container garden. I tested it to add 3-5 degrees when the sun is out. The downside: it needs shade cloth overhead in summer.

@melindaroth5796 3 месяца назад

Awesome teacher Anthony 😊 Thank you Brother 😊❤

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You are welcome!

@CyndiConnard 3 месяца назад

Thank you for all your videos and info!

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

My pleasure!

@moistenland 3 месяца назад

love your videos,so nice

@superdave336 3 месяца назад

I rushed out some fig cuttings and paid for this mistake by losing several of them. Won't make that mistake again. Thanks for sharing.

@sylvia10101 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this helpful information 😊👍👍

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You're welcome!

@gordsmith7708 3 месяца назад

Great information , HI DALE . Cheers 🍻

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Thanks! Dale says hello 🐶

@bradmaas6875 3 месяца назад

I needed this last week

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Hopefully, they survive 😢

@Bluetamon 3 месяца назад

Same :)

@bradmaas6875 3 месяца назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips Figs, 3 Olympians might, 3 Hardy Chicago's, probably not.

@pw3829 3 месяца назад

This one hit me just a little too late. I probably wouldn’t have lost half my Swiss chard if I had hardened them off. It’s ok! First time gardener and I’m learning a ton. Thanks for these great tips!

@vickiesaewert5552 3 месяца назад

You sure taught me something today and Thank You!

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Happy to help!

@valoriegriego5212 3 месяца назад

I've never done that gradual harding off since the first year of growing plants from seed. I put my seedlings grown under grow lights outside in a tote covered with tulle or a small hoop house covered in insect netting. I find the tulle and insect netting provide enough shade that the plants don't get burnt. I take them outside and keep them out day and night...unless a cold night comes. After 3 days or so, I plant them out in the garden...either on an overcast day or in the evening. I've never lost a seedlings or plant.👩🏾‍🌾

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You may be able to do that under a cover. My garden is too large to do so. The hardening off process is pretty easy if you buy those seed tray bottoms and get inserts, since you can carry out dozens at the same time. If you start things in 72-cell trays, you can basically harden them all off at once pretty easily.

@chrisholdread174 3 месяца назад

I don't harden my indoor starts much before planting bc where I live we have horrendous winds throughout early spring. I mean, turn the horizon brown with dirt level winds. Because of these winds I wrap my tomatoes, peppers, and broad leaf plants like zucchini with a thin weed barrier. It acts as both a wind barrier and sun shade. And for me, this method has worked great. Again, I do harden some but not near as much as you may. I wanted to every day of this last week but most days the winds were awful. Next year I'll have an outdoor greenhouse tent to put my seedlings in for the month before planting.

@nildaotero2933 3 месяца назад

Great 2 min. video

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Thanks!

@flintstonegirl3372 3 месяца назад

I appreciate this video more than you know! I "thought" I had acclimated my tomato plants enough but I didn't. I wasn't sure what was wrong, but after you actually SHOWED us what they look like when they're burnt, now I know! Thank you❤

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You're welcome! This shows you exactly what sunburn looks like.

@AylaGrassrootGardens 3 месяца назад

Thanks ❤

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You're welcome 😊

@MsSwitchblade13 3 месяца назад

I took my pepper plants outside today for 30 minutes and they already looked droopy afterwards. Scared me but that's why i only wanted to try it for thirty minutes first.

@PepperplacewithShawna 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Mine are in the greenhouse. It's going down to the high 30s the next couple of days. I'm leaving them until it warms back up.

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Keep in mind greenhouse plastic, polycarbonate, glass, etc. all block UV, so any seedlings grown in greenhouses need slow acclimation to real sun. If you carry them outside into full sun, they will get cooked.

@laurak170 3 месяца назад

Great Great Tip. I'm a Newby that will be Sq Ft planting in a community garden, so I trust this is crucial to all seedlings. My question is, I'm going away for 8 days, should I keep them in the window or under the grow light? Thanks so much for your input ❣️

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

That is a very difficult question, because I do not know your situation. How far along are the seedlings? How consistent and reliable is the window light? If you use the grow lights, is there a chance the seedlings will outgrow them in 8 days? The answer is do the thing you can set up the most reliably. That will *probably* be grow lights, because you can automate timers and such, but you must make sure they can survive for 8 days without manual watering. Irrigation is *key.*

@laurak170 3 месяца назад

Thank you for responding... I do have a timer on the lights and someone to water every other day. I just need to adjust the height of the lights. Wish me luck 😊

@johnkuveke9749 3 месяца назад

Another awesome video!!It’s April 23 in Las Vegas and temps should be 80 but we are at 88-94 degrees already. I planted my indeterminate tomatoes in my raised bed 8 days ago after trying to aclimate them as instructed.Some of the leaves had that sunburn look as you show here but not as bad and a wierd grayish Fungus before i transplanted them.Didnt know what that was but now i do.. I built an A frame and put it over my raised bed and covered it with the 40% shade cloth. It is too hot and UV rays from the sun will burn any vegetable here.Thankyou for your video about shade covers and the link to the site u buy them from! Its a 40% shade cloth. Do you think thats enough for the desert sun? Or would you reccomend going to a 55% or more barrier? Plz help. Im a beginner at year three. Last two years plants didnt do well at all i think in part to the soil i was using in my bed…competely revamped this year based on your videos….and also cuz my trees i have could only shade them for a few hours. Any advice would be much appreciated and helpful 😊

@clarencerswann1360 3 месяца назад

Do you think making use of some shade cloth to cut some of the UV strength would be okay for leaving them out longer? Over the weekend I left out my peppers that were started in Feb out in the midday sun and forgot, just about everything got leaf droop. Brought them back in near a south window and they perked up again by the evening. No noticeable sun scald, leaves still look quite healthy, but that did give me a scare. I'm in 7a and our shoulder seasons are schizophrenic... like it was in the 80sF (27C) followed by days of rain, and we had a frost advisory last night and again for overnight tonight. I'm hoping to have these in the ground by this weekend or next week.

@kalisurf5644 3 месяца назад

I bring mine out under my shade cloths for a couple weeks then move them to a permanent home. Keeping the littler peppers in the center. That has worked for me the past few years.

@juanitahanson7306 3 месяца назад

Should I harden off flowers grown inside under lights. I grew Wave Petunias from seed.

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

Yes. Anything grown under grow lights or inside greenhouses require hardening off.

@elroythegreat1590 3 месяца назад

When I buy plants from the local nursery I can plant outside right away. Do they have a way they harden them off?

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

They almost certainly harden them off before selling.

@NihilusTheGreat 3 месяца назад

Do you prefer cara cara oranges or blood oranges? For flavor, juicyness, cold tolerance, and harvest size?

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

They don't really taste alike. Blood oranges, at least the Moro variety I grow, is low in acid, sweet, mild and has a raspberry flavor. Cara Cara's taste more like an orange. They are acidic, tart and strong. If I could only grow one, I'd grow the Cara Cara, but it's very subjective.

@NihilusTheGreat 3 месяца назад

@2MinuteGardenTips thanks for your input. I'm growing meyer lemon and browns select this year, was looking for something different in the citrus world I can grow in 8a Virginia Beach.

@nitaleblanc 3 месяца назад

What size grow bags do you use for your indeterminate tomatoes?

@user-lg6ki6ic5f 3 месяца назад

I just saw his video on this and he said 20 gal bag.

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

20 gallon. You will need to mulch them well during summer, because they dry out fast in heat.

@marilynmitchell2712 3 месяца назад

What if they are grown in the greenhouse??

@2MinuteGardenTips 3 месяца назад

You will need to acclimate them. Greenhouse grown transplants will be a little more sun tolerant right off the bat, but greenhouse film, polycarbonate, glass, etc. all block UV, so they need an acclimation period to prevent sunburn or scorching.

@omfug7148 3 месяца назад

@@2MinuteGardenTips and this goes for greenhouse grown garden center tomatoes too. When I buy early in the season, I always harden those off with my homegrown plants.