Drived plants with leaves away from each other, which will hide even the slightest gust of wind – we certainly do not want. But why do they ever appear? Most of the time we attach this phenomenon a lack of light, but it can also be a fairly ordinary human mistake…
Although we cannot allocate the lack of light from this problem, there are other causes that may be in the situation. If you are sure that your seedlings get exactly as much daylight as they need, then you will have to think about other factors that affect their growth and strength.
Save the pulled seedlings according to the video on YouTube in the Garden Channel:
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“I did everything well”
What else could I do for small plants? To be as strong as possible at the time of transplanting the free ground, I sent them this time soon. Attention – and here is just a large part of the stones of the injury that your tomatoes, peppers, or other seedlings come across. In fact, this error is closely related to the aforementioned lack of light. When you sow seeds (in the best faith) too early, daylight will not be as much as they need naturally. Artificial lighting is a good improvement, but the sun simply cannot replace.
They need enough space
Another reason that can lead to protruding growth are small pots that do not allow roots to open and grow as they need so that the plant they nourish can also grow. This happens, for example, when you forget the first transplant and leave the seedlings in the original pots too long.
Train the plants
Also important is mild but sufficient hardening of young plants, if you want a kind of strength training. What should he look like? In the apartment, young seedlings do not have enough impulses to realize what conditions await them outside. Therefore, it is good to simulate the movement of air (ie wind), for example, at a sufficient distance with the ventilated fan. “Wind” does not have to blow all the time, just a few minutes a day to find that the poor constitution will not lead to survival. It then focuses more on strengthening the strength of the tissues in the stem than in the height it tries to achieve.
Beware of temperature
As mentioned, too ideal conditions are not the right way to grow resistant plants. Therefore, even the temperature should not be from the beginning as in summer. The daily day should be between 18 and 20 ° C, at night it is necessary to drop by five degrees. Don’t worry, nothing happens to them. Too high the temperature indicates that the plants are in the slip and at this imaginary time they should have been significantly higher. So they start the alarm and try to catch up with what is going on at the cost of losing strength.
Reasonable watering can do a lot
We mentioned some hardening of seedlings. The same is true of the dressing. If we offer them water at any time we are afraid that the dry surface of the substrate can cause them uncomfort or even problems, we will make them the right “bear service”. On the other hand, a few hours of drier substrate will teach them to better manage moisture, make the roots grow deeper and branch in the belief that it will reach another water, which is likely to be at a greater distance from the center of the plant. All of this then pays off when you transfer your seedlings to free soil. Strong roots can nourish a strong plant, otherwise it is not and will not.
Next time you will know …
Do you recognize any of the mistakes you may have made as well? It is never too late to correct what you can. And next time you will know exactly how to treat small plants to be happy and prospering well.
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