Re: What am I doing wrong?
Nan, don't ever use garden soil (even amended) for 'potting on'. Use bagged
potting soil. The drainage, no matter what, isn't right.
Pot on using bagged medium. When the roots fill the pot by half or better, then
plant the root ball in your garden.
Diana
The Greenhouse Nursery
Port Angeles, WA
Nan Sterman wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the variety of responses. I guess I should have been
> clearer with my original post, please forgive me as I was writing out of
> frustration of having lost yet more babies to the dreaded transplant demon.
>
> Okay, I am talking about all kinds of plants started from seed (veg and
> perennial) as well as soft wood cuttings, mostly of perennials. I start my
> cuttings in perlite or vermiculite/peat/perlite mixture (the only water
> started plant I have ever been successful with is curly willow which would
> start in a gutter if it had any water in it!). The problems occur when I
> pot on, not when I transplant into the ground. Example, I did cuttings of
> the california native monkey flower, diplacus (formerly mimulus) that is
> native to the foothills around my house here in southern California. I
> started several dozen cuttings in pure perlite. They rooted like crazy --
> roots were even coming out of the bottom of the pots. I potted them on into
> a mixture of garden soil and perlite (pretty light) and promptly least at
> least 70% of them. Same goes for tomato seedlings when I start my summer
> veg garden. lots of plants germinate and get to be good sized, but when I
> pot them on, I loose them. I've lost salvias this way (from cuttings) as
> well.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Nan
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