GAH. The seeds in the mini greenhaus have been coming along merrily, even the purple calico ornamental pepper (I've determined ir's that one rather than mixing it up with the tricolore garda, as the leaves are purple), EXCEPT I noticed that last couple days that a couple seedlings keeled over.
GOSH DAMP IT! It looks like there's some damping off going on. I've possibly been a little too water bottle spray happy and the cracks in the plastic of my geenhaus obviously have not done a great job venting (I know, not their purpose, but I still had hope). I also had been gone for a while and got carried away by other household things I probably was not opening up, checking and airing out the seedlings enough as I should.
I've pulled out the sad flopped over seedlings, only 2 and it looks like that they're all purple calico peppers and it hasn't spread too much I hope.
As a potentially too late method to prevent further damage I'm taking one from the Gayla Trail/Martha Stewart advice book (not a collaboration, just things they've mentioned in the past) that I constantly forget to use: CINNAMON.
So, there I was with a palm full of cinnamon in front of my little seedlings just blowing all this powdered cinnamon into the greenhaus box and on the seedlings and surface of their dirt in fervent prayer that this will protect them or heal them and whatnot. It reminded me of all those cheesy stereotypical scenes from movies that had an indigenous medicine man/woman blowing some sort of mystical powder on their patient or something.
Everything in there smells delicious at least.
*sigh* If I had been smart I'd have blown the cinnamon on top of the surface of the pots BEFORE I plant the seeds. I've never really had a damping off problem before, so I'll just hope that it doesn't proceed to total seedling meltdown. My own personal tomato/pepper/tomatillo Chernobyl I swear.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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