Seedlings question

[jmoney]

Below I have attached a picture of my seedlings. Right now they are in a dish. How long should I wait before moving them to a pot?

My biggest concern is how closely clustered the seedlings are. I would like to give them more room to grow but I'm afraid to move/transplant them too early.

[iann]

They're fine. Come back next year and ask again

[DaveW]

Agree with, Ian you can leave them a year before transplanting them. They seem to come to no harm clustered together, in fact seem to grow better than isolated transplanted seedlings do for the first year:-

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[Onzuka]

Yes, just leave them alone. Here's two pots of my Astro seedlings and there is still no rush to transplant them. I actually sold the first pot shown on Ebay last week and posted them to Italy on Monday.

Steve

[Saxicola]

The wholesale grower I get a lot of my plants from starts seedlings in big flats. By the time he has his workers pot them up the flat is overflowing with plants, with virtually no free space inbetween. Even more crowded than Steve's trays. You don't need to wait until they are that crowded but as Ian said, check back in a year and *maybe* it will be time to separate them.