http://www.gardenbetty.com/201...
I found this article which is typical of the articles I based my transplanting theory on. Now reading this after reading the post by Sandy makes me realize that the articles I read along with this one might not be saying what I interpreted it to say, but it might.
This article states that a tomato has a vigorous tap root that can grow up to an inch per day, I have never noticed a tomato having a vigorous tap root, but mostly lots of shallow "feeder roots"? Now for sure if the tap root were growing on a tomato an inch per day, if started in a large pot with shallow soil, building up the soil around the plant would not do much good for the tap root which would have reached the bottom of the container in a short period of time, but if it just has a lot of tiny feeder roots which develop from higher up than the previous roots as the soil is added then the tomato should benefit just as much from that. Open for new insight and feedback. When does a tomato outgrow the seed forum?
