Tomato Seedlings Second Week

When I last posted my tomato seedlings on this blog they're first seed leaves just emerged. That was on June 21.

On the 24th of June I noticed that the seedling started to grow small extra leaves. When I looked at materials from the net it states there that the small leaves that where growing was actually its first true leaves.

The photo taken on the 21st of June only contained the embryonic first leaves of a seedling or Cotyledons. These leaves are apparently used to gather energy from the sun to provide energy for the production of other leaves and growth of the stem (Synthesis).

Unfortunately I got tied up doing a lot of other things from the 24th of June up until the 27 of June and managed to take a photo of it then and this is what I got.

The first true leaves (shaped like a maple leaf) where now broader and new leaves where also coming out of the plant. The cotyledons are still there and I do wonder what will happen to them once the true leaves have expanded and grown to full size.