well...i'm not sure, but i had to do something...i started putting germinated Zea diploperennis seeds into peat pellets in the warming tray eight days ago and left them under the growlight twenty-four hours a day to see what would happen...what happened was they grew so fast that the roots could not support them well and a few fell over...they're still growing quickly down there...so quickly that i had to improvise a new lid for the warming tray because they outgrew the one it came with in two days and now they're closing in on being as tall as that ( the one in the picture is seven inches from the top of the soil to its growing tip...and it is not the tallest one there is...some are close to a foot tall right now)..so i went out and bought thrty-two number eight jiffy-strip peat pots and a forty pound bag of potting soil and transplanted the ones that had fallen over into them to give them a bit more support...clearly the plants are going to outgrow the warming tray post-haste so i picked one to come upstairs with the tomatoes to see how it would react to the environment...if it does well the rest of the Zea diploperennis will be moving upstairs to tables under the picture window to be gradually hardened off...some will go into the garden and some will be potted here to try and get them through a full growth cycle so i can count seeds...i don't know how things will turn out but i have to say i'm excited about the fact that they're growing and i'll keep a close eye on things...and you'll know nearly as quickly as i do how things go.
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