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Re: spindly seedlings

> From:          LilOsmosis@aol.com
> Date:          Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:42:44 -0500 (EST)
> To:            seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject:       spindly seedlings
> Reply-to:      seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Hello all,
>  I would like to know how to keep seedlings from growing tall and
>  spindly to
> later be top heavy, fall over and die.... I have about 10 types of
> annual and perrenial seeds planted (no growth yet) in 2 small table
> top greenhouses in my room... I have had a problem with this before
> and lost quite a few seedlings due to this problem, and I don't want
> it to happen again this year.. Thanks..
> 
>  James
> 
> 

James

There are a number of things that cause seedlings to be tall and 
skinny and all of them boil down to lack of light
You could give them more photosynthetic light (move into a growing 
house or provide sodium vapour lamps?), space the seeds out more when 
you sow them, move them onto a sunny window and turn them each day. 
The bottom line is more light.

Terry
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Terry Dowdeswell
Tuakau, New Zealand
Terry@delphinium.co.nz
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http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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Time flies like the wind - fruit flies like bananas
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