The title sort of says it all. I didn't get a huge number of Suave starts in the first place, but they were looking reasonably good until Sunday, at which point all but one went into that general "floppy seedling" mode. You know what I mean: The stem won't stand up, then the leaves collapse and shrivel back as if they're not getting any support from the stem, which I suppose they're not, and there you are with a dead plant.
This always happens to a few seedlings, of course, which is why we plant more than we expect to need, and _chinenses_ seem generally to be more sensitive than other species, but it's so concentrated in this one type that I wonder if there's any special reason. Are the NM Suaves especially sensitive, or did I get a kind of ill-favored batch of seed for them, or is it just a Texas-sharpshooter effect?
They've been potted into individual cups for about a week and a half now (Happy Frog soil, which worked well for me last year), taking a turn in the sun during the days and coming indoors at night. (No signs of sunburn or anything like that.) Other plants in the same regime, mostly _annuum_ but a few _chinense_ and _baccatum_, seem to be doing fine, with a couple of individual failure-to-thrive cases but no obvious clustering.
-NT
This always happens to a few seedlings, of course, which is why we plant more than we expect to need, and _chinenses_ seem generally to be more sensitive than other species, but it's so concentrated in this one type that I wonder if there's any special reason. Are the NM Suaves especially sensitive, or did I get a kind of ill-favored batch of seed for them, or is it just a Texas-sharpshooter effect?
They've been potted into individual cups for about a week and a half now (Happy Frog soil, which worked well for me last year), taking a turn in the sun during the days and coming indoors at night. (No signs of sunburn or anything like that.) Other plants in the same regime, mostly _annuum_ but a few _chinense_ and _baccatum_, seem to be doing fine, with a couple of individual failure-to-thrive cases but no obvious clustering.
-NT
