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| I finally had petunia sprouts. This morning they are not there. Not even a little stem is remaining. We had crazy thunderstorms here last night with lots of rain - could this cause them to damp off. My jug appears to draining fine. Or did slugs crawl inside my closed jug which is on my wood deck.
Any ideas, thoughts? Thanks,
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| We had lots of rain yesterday too, and some of my tiny seedlings also disappeared. I think if the rain is hard enough, seedlings can be buried in the soil. Yesterday I had 4 purple nicotiana sprouts, today only one is left. The jug was closed but... they're goners today. Karen |
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| Well it did rain really hard (lots of tree leaves scattered all over the place ) so I will assumed the little guys were buried. Seems we rarely have a nice gentle spring rain anymore here in St. Louis. Kind of bummed since these were seeds I purchased. Though excited about going shopping for some instant color. :) My front flower beds are totally naked right now. ~Amy (StLGirl) |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, May 9, 12 at 15:00
| Watch for slugs, they put a hurtin on my zinnia's. |
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| It could be the heavy rain, but when little seedlings disappear or appear munched on in my containers, slugs are usually the culprit. They do not bother many containers but they LOVE petunias (as well as Salvia, Echinacea, and Liatris seedlings). Last year, I WS'd and planted a bunch of petunias and they never did well after planting out. Only the petunias in the hanging containers did well. Come to find out, when I started going out at night to check on what was eating certain plants in the gardens, that slugs were doing a regular number on the petunias (as well as Hostas, milkweeds, and the cabbage, etc). I use both the iron phosphate slug bait, as well as a dilute ammonia solution for slug. They both work very well. |
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