How to choose culling victims

b3rnd · Feb 22, 2018

Hey people,

How do you guys choose which seedlings to cull? It's obvious when one is growing weirdly or is damaged, but when they are all healthy I kinda pick them randomly.

Just wondering, what are your criteria for culling?

Chilidude · Feb 22, 2018

I cull the smallest ones, if the are otherwise ok looking.

Walchit · Feb 22, 2018

Culling? You mean buy more lights right? Lol

Dinsdale · Feb 22, 2018

Walchit said:
Culling? You mean buy more lights right? Lol

That's one way to deal with the problem! :rofl:

Edmick · Feb 22, 2018

I usually go with the largest fastest growers. Which majority of the time tend to be the ones that sprout first. Not always though.

PtMD989 · Feb 22, 2018

My sprouts tend to cull themselves. [emoji26]

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Edmick · Feb 22, 2018

You know what sucks.. When you only plant 3 cells of a variety and 2 cells have nothing, and 1 cell has 3..

Rajun Gardener · Feb 22, 2018

I don't cull till they're dead. I transplant all of the good looking plants then put all of those ugly ones in one pot and if they make it, good, if not nothing lost.

U)<now · Feb 22, 2018

Edmick said:
You know what sucks.. When you only plant 3 cells of a variety and 2 cells have nothing, and 1 cell has 3..

Just split them up, either get them pretty wet or really dry, and tease them apart. I did it at least a dozen times this year with no issues.

Edmick · Feb 22, 2018

U)<now said:
Just split them up, either get them pretty wet or really dry, and tease them apart. I did it at least a dozen times this year with no issues.

That's what I ended up doing. A few didn't make it though

U)<now · Feb 22, 2018

Edmick said:
That's what I ended up doing. A few didn't make it though

Well that's a bummer.

I lost two bhuts this season before they even got true leaves. I waited too long to water once and a bunch of plants shriveled up, those two never recovered though and ended up dying. The others all recovered fine.

Winegums · Feb 24, 2018

I usually start in trays and pick the nicest, least leggy seedlings. This is what was left after I was done, they're sitting by the window as back ups in case one of my other plants fail or die. I'll typically dump the trays once it's planting time and I don't have any where to put them.

Muckyai · Feb 24, 2018

I hate culling.. I get sentimental and transplant to another pot. This is why I have a ridiculous amount of plant pots...

PtMD989 · Feb 24, 2018

Muckyai said:
I hate culling.. I get sentimental and transplant to another pot. This is why I have a ridiculous amount of plant pots...

Yeah. You put in the effort and time to raise them up it doesn’t seem right to cull one because it’s a runt.

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Muckyai · Feb 24, 2018

PtMD989 said:
Yeah. You put in the effort and time to raise them up it doesn’t seem right to cull one because it’s a runt.

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You read Charlotte's Web too huh? [emoji3]

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amfarms17 · Feb 25, 2018

i dont cull anything, never know when the runt grows up to be the best

Put one in the ground last year and it survived the winter when the "great ones" died.

PtMD989 · Feb 26, 2018

Muckyai said:
You read Charlotte's Web too huh? [emoji3]

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It’s been like, 100 years since reading it in elementary school.
But spiders are cool and pigs taste good. [emoji16]

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