Hi, been a while since my last visit but I have a question at the beginning of this new season.
My Lipstick seedlings are having a strange issue : one got completely decapotated (the stem end in ... nothing but air), the other got very tightly stuck in the seed case (Lipstuck) and when I removed the seedcase, most of the 2 cotyledons where yellowish-brown (ready to be decapotated), all the other seedlings where fine so far, I have about 75 transplanted into separate newspaper pots, no sign of slugs/snails in the heated propagator (caught one outside of the propagator - the bastards killed too many young plants last year)
could it be the temp to high ? It is a thermo-probe/thermostat controlled propagator (probe in upper half of the soil, temperature set at 24°C (75 fahrenheit?) but apparently none of the other peppers is having this behavior, same propagator, same soil, same level of humidity,...
just bad luck ? any ideas ?
Peter
My Lipstick seedlings are having a strange issue : one got completely decapotated (the stem end in ... nothing but air), the other got very tightly stuck in the seed case (Lipstuck) and when I removed the seedcase, most of the 2 cotyledons where yellowish-brown (ready to be decapotated), all the other seedlings where fine so far, I have about 75 transplanted into separate newspaper pots, no sign of slugs/snails in the heated propagator (caught one outside of the propagator - the bastards killed too many young plants last year)
could it be the temp to high ? It is a thermo-probe/thermostat controlled propagator (probe in upper half of the soil, temperature set at 24°C (75 fahrenheit?) but apparently none of the other peppers is having this behavior, same propagator, same soil, same level of humidity,...
just bad luck ? any ideas ?
Peter