Tomatoes

These cute tomatoes were bought from the mini mart that I often patronise. Other than pork and chicken, they do sell fruits, vegetables and dried stuff. 

One of the suppliers sold these home-grown tomatoes to the mart. They were super sweet and juicy, so I decided to plant some tomatoes from the seeds.

I took 2 slices of the tomato and put in two small pots of mix soil. Every day, I diligently spray some water on them. Morning and evening. By 5th day, I noticed something sprouting from the soil in one of the pots.  

Day 5

Don't you feel excited and hopeful when you seeing the seedlings growing day by day??

Day 10

I started planting on 28 November last year. Then on Day 21, I could see new set of leaves. These are called True Leaves. The first 2 leaves that come out from the seedling are called Seed Leaves. 

Day 21

Only when the true leaves were getting bigger (Day 28), then I transported the young seedlings to bigger homes. Few individual pots for the seedlings. By then, I could water them more (using watering can) and feed fertiliser on them. And place them directly under the sunlight unlike the first 2 to 3 weeks of germination.

Day 28

Fast forward, on Day 40, few seedlings were growing well and sturdy. Hope that they will start to flower and bear fruits in  few weeks time.

Day 40

That's it for now on my tomato growing project. I will update when they are bigger, start flowering etc. Fingers cross!!

And since the Year of Tiger is just a couple of days away, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my Chinese bloggers and readers a "Happy, Prosperous and Wonderful Chinese New Year!!" Gong xi fa cai!!