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Re: replanting deeper (was Tomato Rescue Question)

In a haphazard fashion over the years I have made this very incomplete list:
    1) Plants that like their stems buried when repotting or setting out:
            *marigolds, chrysanthemums, coleus, impatiens, tomatoes, eggplant,
snapdragons
    2) Plants that don't like the stems buried as in 1) above :
            *gerbera, gazania, pansy, petunia, primula, zinnia, ageratum,
begonia, cabbage,
                lettuce
    3) Seem to like repotting several times
            * Tomatoes, peppers, headlettuce, cabbage, broccoli
    4) Should pinch as they are growing under your lights:
            * petunias, salvia, zinnias, torenias, marigolds, ageratums,
impatiens

I would love to have other list members correct or add to these lists ...
seems like an exercise from which we would all profit.

Someone asked for a general rule. I remember  that Parks Seed used to supply a
little pamphlet that did have a general rule. I believe that it had to do with
whether there was a single stem or multiple stems where the plant exited the
ground, but I can't find my old pamphlet.

        Perhaps that is enough to get a useful thread going

Ed  Flynn       zone 6/7   Maryland

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