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Sat, May 23, 09 at 10:31
| I am a new to growing seeds outdoors and need some advice. I amtrying to transplant some of my sunflower seedlings (some are up to 1 foot tall) so they have more room to grow. I have transplanted a couple and after about an hour, they have drooped over. I am being very careful not to disturb the root, but am wondering if I waited to long to transplant them. Does anyone have advice on this matter?
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- Posted by ms_minnamouse 7a (My Page) on Sat, May 23, 09 at 23:05
| Any transplanted plant needs a recovery time. The trick to digging a seedling up is to try to get every single root. I dig at an angle so the shovel kind of come up underneath the seedling. Preserving the root ball, soil and all, will stress your seedling less. This experience is basically trauma to the seedling. You need to baby them a bit until they take. They can't be in soil that's allowed to dry out and they also can't be put into bright light right away. They have to be weaned off of coddling. |
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- Posted by ms_minnamouse 7a (My Page) on Sat, May 23, 09 at 23:08
| Whoops, I didn't spend close enough attention. What you want to do is press on the container sides to loosen the dirt from the container so the plant slips out easily without stress to the roots. Then you plant it with as much as the original dirt intact as you can because it'll disturb the roots less. But the rest of what I said is still true for indoor started seedlings. |
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