Tomato sprout update

It’s been a while since I gave the tomatoes the spotlight… I meant to post earlier this week, but it’s been a crazy one, and so I’ll post my pictures from Monday today.

They’re growing well, it seems. Tiny Tim is the smallest… I was a little surprised at how obviously smaller the sprout is than its fellow sproutlings. I know that the full-grown plant is supposed to be pretty small, but I guess I didn’t connect the fact that the sprout would also be much smaller.

The Early Girls are tall and straight. But for a while now they’ve had their first set of true leaves but haven’t done much about a second. I hope that they’ll grow soon… I’m starting to think that they’re getting big enough to plant outside.

Yellow Pear is a crazy beast! It already has two nice big sets of true leaves, and beginnings of a third. (This isn’t a great picture, unfortunately, but it’s what I’ve got.)  I think that this one will have to get planted in the big pot soon.  The really long stem bothers me a bit; I don’t want leggy plants!  I do remember reading that when I replant my seedlings, I should bury one or two sets of leaves to force the roots to be stronger/deeper.  So maybe it will still be okay!

We’ll probably bring the sprouts home next week and I’ll try to start hardening them off…  Or maybe I’ll just bring the Yellow Pear, and leave the others to grow more in the sunny window.  Any advice?