Buying Tomato & Pepper Transplants (Selecting Healthy Plants & Saving Beat-Up Discounted Plants)

Tomato and pepper transplants that are discounted and beat up can be saved. It is worth saving them because it works, and they take a long time to grow from a seed. Other summer transplant crops are best skipped when stressed and overgrown, and just direct seeded.

How to Grow & Plant the Perfect Zucchini, Cucumber, & Squash Transplant https://youtu.be/Nj80O4I-Fa0

0:00 Selecting Tomato & Pepper Transplants Introduction
0:37 Selecting a Healthy Tomato Transplant - Example 1
0:55 Healthy Tomato Plant (Roots & Growth) Example 2
2:02 Soil Depth - How it Relates to Warm Roots
2:53 Beat-Up Tomato Plant Tips - Burying on Their Side (Trenching)
4:10 Not a Disease - Assessing Leaves on Bargain Plants
4:26 Not An Issue - Looking at Root Nodes on Tomato Plants
5:15 Hit Them With A Water-Soluble Fertilizer - Water Regularly
5:40 Remove Fruit and Flowers
6:37 A Generally Heathy Pepper Transplant
7:20 Beat-Up Pepper Plants - Assessing Their Look
8:01 What You Don't Want in a Pepper Transplant
8:22 How to Save an Overgrown Beat Up Pepper Transplant
9:16 Example of Too Much Root - Root Bound
9:35 Key! - Water-Soluble Fertilizer and Frequency Tip
10:20 A Really Healthy Pepper Transplant - Why?
11:08 Tips on Buying Stressed & Overgrown Zucchini & Cucumbers
12:58 Missed Cuke & Zuke Transplants - Just Direct Seed! - Here's Why!
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