Hi All!!! Newbie from chennai | New Gardeners | Commercial Hydroponics farming

Welcome, you are in the right place. For seeds I recommend T-nagar, TNAU in AnnaNagar. There are lots of seed shops in T-nagar. You can also try your local nursery but might be costly. For potting soil, manure, the best place is in ECR in between toll and Mayajaal- lots of nursery selling these on the way. For other organic inputs vermicompost, pest control, fertlizers it is better to source directly from the companies selling them. Your biggest expense will be in containers and soil if you follow the DIY route. 

No seed has a chance of surviving a 6 inches deep burial . I am wondering how big is your pot or container. Sowing them 1- 1.5 cm might be sufficient.  

apoorvas said:

Hi,

 

The Container in 6 inch deep, but i sowed the seeds by just digging a furrow which is 1/4 inch deep.

Anyway, I tried to germinate some tomato and capsicum seeds in paper towels.

Today morning i was surprised to see some tomato seeds sprout with 2 small leaves.

Now the challenge is to transplant them to a container.

Please give me some suggestions on how to transplant them and the medium which is best suited for growing tomatoes.

The capsicum seeds have not yet germinated, how long does it normally take to germinate??

 

Thanks,

Apoorva

Sorry, I misunderstood your comment about the depth of sowing.  Tomatoes handle transplantation well. I think tomatoes are heavy feeders, but I dont have experience other than normal soil with manure, bio-fertilisers..etc. I recently had a harvest of about 3kgs from 2 plants.  If you are planning to use chemical fertilizers then the initial potting composition does not matter much except for water retention capability.

Chillies or capsicum need warm weather to germinate. But otherwise I have a bad experience with both and cannot comment on them.

I am not expert in this, but a mixture of red soil, cow manure, vermicompost and bio-fertilizers worked well for me. You can get the "enriched vermicompost" or add the bio-fertiliers yourself. Lookup my other thread on bio-fertilizers. Unlike chemical fertilizers the micro-organisms take time to produce results. 

Regular dose of Panchagalvya, cow manure and vermicompost will be sufficient.

Get it from here,

http://www.manidharmabiotech.c.....quiry.html

If have sufficient demand for their products, we can present a consolidated demand and procure things relatively cheaper.

Hi Chennai gardeners,

I have just started vegetable gardening. I had a very poor germination rate for okra.. 1 in 8. I tried twice with 2 different sets of seeds from diff. nurseries. Let me know where I can get quality seeds other than thilokchand seeds in t.nagar. I called up Tnau in annagar but they do not have.

I would also like to know if carrot grows here.

Thanks