david_megginson,
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Last year I started plants from seed indoors without a heat mat, and it typically took a couple of weeks before I saw the first sprouts.

This year I'm using a heat mat, and the time to first sprout has been much shorter:

  • Cherry tomatoes: 4 days
  • Eggplants: 7 days
  • Basil: 3 days

Still waiting on peppers (7 days) and dill (4 days). Other seeds will go in soon.

david_megginson,
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I've also managed to force myself to thin my tomato seedlings early, which is heart-breaking (I got all these seedlings to sprout, and now I have to kill 2/3 of them?!?!) but improves the chances for the most-viable ones by uncrowding them.

No one warned me that gardening is a cruel and ruthless pursuit.

shawngettler,
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@david_megginson I try to separate them and re-pot when they are a couple inches tall, but that really just defers the cull until I run out of containers planting them outdoors.

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