Hi Guys, I really have no idea what I’m doing wrong with my seedlings. Every seedling starts great in the beginning and then it gets that thinning in the base of the stem and if I don’t support it, it will break from it’s own weight. I’ve managed to save one with burrowing the damage, a member from the forum advised me to do that. But I want to understand what I’m doing wrong on the first place.
This is what I did step by step: I put the seed in distilled water for 19 hours, then I moved it on a wet paper, when the tap root was about 0.5cm I moved it into the pot. Small hole about 1cm deep, tap root pointing downwards. I sprayed the soil before potting the plant and it’s not damped off. Since then I haven’t given more water. The seedling was growing great for a couple of days with tick stem, it spent the first two days indoors until it show out of the soil. I’ve put it under my fish tank led lamp, I don’t know if it made any difference, I grow outdoors and I don’t have proper indoor setup. Then I started to take it out once it showed the sugar leaves and this thinning developed in two days. The image is from yesterday. This thing is happening with every seedling that I try to grow this year and I have no idea what I’m doing wrong.
Thanks
This is what I did step by step: I put the seed in distilled water for 19 hours, then I moved it on a wet paper, when the tap root was about 0.5cm I moved it into the pot. Small hole about 1cm deep, tap root pointing downwards. I sprayed the soil before potting the plant and it’s not damped off. Since then I haven’t given more water. The seedling was growing great for a couple of days with tick stem, it spent the first two days indoors until it show out of the soil. I’ve put it under my fish tank led lamp, I don’t know if it made any difference, I grow outdoors and I don’t have proper indoor setup. Then I started to take it out once it showed the sugar leaves and this thinning developed in two days. The image is from yesterday. This thing is happening with every seedling that I try to grow this year and I have no idea what I’m doing wrong.
Thanks