Posted by Tom Broome on 4/7/2006, 9:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Are my cycad seedlings dead?" --Previous Message--
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: I just started checking my plants
: thoroughly last night, and some of
: the stems were completely rotten :(
: Luckily some of the stems didn't
: rot, so I'm hopefull those will
: sprout new leaves soon. Some of them
: had only partially rotted, so i
: removed the rotten parts and treated
: the plants like you described in
: your "Never Throw Away a
: Cycad" article hopefully those
: will survive to..
: I should probably not have moved
: these plants outside into the cold
: when the leaves started to dry. I
: will NOT be making that mistake
: again!
: Do you think I should dig up and
: check the roots of the plants that
: do have firm stems for rot?
: Thanks a lot for your help it is
: very much appreciated!
:
: Edo
:
If you have a batch of plants where many of them have rot, or some obvious rot is present, you must have done something wrong. Given that, I think I would check the rest of them. I've done that in the past when I was experimenting with soils. Put a batch of plants in the wrong soil for a certain growing condition, and there is a good chance some of the others will have minor rot below and might not be detected until the rot gets worse. It is a lot easier to save plants at the early stage as opposed to when everything on the plant is falling apart.
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