Re: Damping off: was Botanical Name of the week]

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• Subject: Re: Damping off: was Botanical Name of the week]
• From: J* G* <j*@c-cor.com>
• Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 08:46:41 -0400
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Ruth Zavitz wrote:
> 
> Jim Gray wrote:
> >They're easy to grow from seed.  I bought a pack at Lowe's in March,
> >started them indoors, and am planning a garden transplant for this
> >weekend.  Mine are about six inches tall right now and haven't succumbed
> >to damping-off _at all_, whereas I lost all my Pacific Giants delphinium
> >and snapdragons to it.  There one minute, limp and nasty the next.
> >*sigh* Stupid fungus...
> >
> Jim:
> 
> Try rubbing some sphagnum moss (not peat moss) through a sieve and
> sprinkling it on the sruface of your seed post.  It is a great inhibitor of
> the damp-off fungus.
> 
> Ruth Z
> Ruth Zavitz
> rzavitz@execulink.com
> Freelance Writer & Gardening Consultant, zone 6 Southern Ontario

Believe it or not, they were in Jiffy-7's.  For some reason, damping-off
fungus loves my plants.  Of course, I also have problems finding
good-light places to put flats and that doesn't help at all.  I'm
investing in a fluorescent light set-up to overwinter my stuff this year
and I'm making room in late winter for seedlings under those lights,
too!

-- 
Botanical Name of the Week: Kniphofia, one of the more nearly perfect
fittings of name to form.

Jim Gray 
jjg@c-cor.com
Altoona, PA: Zone 6A

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