Richard Rollinson21h ago
Last week, I commented on how the eggplant seedlings looked like they had a problem and were dying back. At that point I replanted another batch of seeds. Seven days later I can report that the new plantings have begun to germinate AND there is new growth coming on the damaged seedlings in the greenhouse. Now we've got a race going on and a chance to do some side-by-side comparisons as the season goes on. It's early days yet.
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Show threadBroadfork20h ago

@richrollgardener My (imaginary) money is on the second batch of seedlings becoming the better plants.

Do you think it was an unintentional over watering issue then?

Show threadRichard Rollinson20h ago
@Broadfork I agree. I don't think the first batch will ever produce much, but we'll find out. Overwatering is my best guess as to what happened. It was on the top shelf of the grow light setup & I'm not tall enough to look in there properly. New batch is down where I can see it and will go out to the greenhouse much sooner than the first batch dd. I've had trouble with eggplant before. Let them get pot-bound one year & had almost no produce from them. Good thing I don't really like eggplant!
Show threadBroadfork20h ago

@richrollgardener I don’t find them very versatile to cook with and I don’t have the greenhouse space now anyway but I was never very successful with growing them.

It’s a good little comparison to do though.

Show threadRichard Rollinson
@Broadfork I only grow them because the neighbors seem to like them.
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