African Queen

Garf · April 13, 2015

I started 5 seeds, now I only have 1 seedling left. 2 sprouted, 1 died from Damping Off disease.

Gardeneer · April 13, 2015

What kind of medium are you using ?
Either you are over watering or the medium has too high moisture retention and high PWT.

Salsacharley · April 13, 2015

Pour diluted hydrogen peroxide on that stem ASAP. I dilute about 50% with water.

KarenO · April 13, 2015

Oh get the survivor out of that soil mix ASAP . Carefully lift it out remove most of the soil from the roots. Give the whole thing a rinse removing all potting mix from the roots and repot up to the first leaves into new sterile potting mix. Throw that container and mix away or just the mix and scrub and bleach the container if you intend to reuse it. It May be too late but I don't think it has any chance at all if left in that container with the damping off pathogen in the mix.
Moist, not wet sterile seedling media is the safest thing to grow seedlings in.
Let us know how it does
KarenO

Starlight · April 14, 2015

I also agree with what was posted above. Hopefully you can save your last baby. I looked in my seed boxes, but I don't have that seed.

barefootgardener · April 14, 2015

Garf I hope your last Africin Queen seedling made it through ok. I would be happy to send you some of my saved, bagged AQ seeds if you would like some.

Ginny

Garf · April 19, 2015

I only used 5 seed out of a pack to get the two seedlings. The first seedling is OK but the other died.

Garf · May 27, 2015

The plant had no resistance to spider mites. It's almost dead.

April 13, 2015	#4
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,928	Oh get the survivor out of that soil mix ASAP . Carefully lift it out remove most of the soil from the roots. Give the whole thing a rinse removing all potting mix from the roots and repot up to the first leaves into new sterile potting mix. Throw that container and mix away or just the mix and scrub and bleach the container if you intend to reuse it. It May be too late but I don't think it has any chance at all if left in that container with the damping off pathogen in the mix. Moist, not wet sterile seedling media is the safest thing to grow seedlings in. Let us know how it does KarenO Last edited by KarenO; April 13, 2015 at 11:13 PM.

April 13, 2015	#2
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,915	What kind of medium are you using ? Either you are over watering or the medium has too high moisture retention and high PWT.

April 13, 2015	#3
Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	Pour diluted hydrogen peroxide on that stem ASAP. I dilute about 50% with water.

April 14, 2015	#5
Starlight Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: AL Posts: 1,993	I also agree with what was posted above. Hopefully you can save your last baby. I looked in my seed boxes, but I don't have that seed.

April 14, 2015	#6
barefootgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Michigan Zone 4b Posts: 1,291	Garf I hope your last Africin Queen seedling made it through ok. I would be happy to send you some of my saved, bagged AQ seeds if you would like some. Ginny

May 27, 2015	#8
Garf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Miami, FL. Posts: 442	The plant had no resistance to spider mites. It's almost dead.