potted up then damping off

b54red · April 6, 2010

This has never happened in the many years I have been potting plants up from seedlings. This was my third batch of seedlings I potted up just last week and had a bunch die from what looks like damping off. I was using very healthy seedlings with no sign of the disease. I have had no damping off in the hundreds of seedlings I have started this year; but it hit the last batch I potted up. They were in the greenhouse with a fan on intermittently with plenty of light and in the same potting mixture used in the last couple of batches. I sprayed with daconil when I saw so many dying plants and it seems to have slowed it down. Has this ever happened to anyone else? It has been unusually warm this past week; but I always associate damping off with cooler conditions and too much water. This batch was treated just like all the others which thrived. Oh well another tomato mystery.

April 6, 2010	#1
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	potted up then damping off This has never happened in the many years I have been potting plants up from seedlings. This was my third batch of seedlings I potted up just last week and had a bunch die from what looks like damping off. I was using very healthy seedlings with no sign of the disease. I have had no damping off in the hundreds of seedlings I have started this year; but it hit the last batch I potted up. They were in the greenhouse with a fan on intermittently with plenty of light and in the same potting mixture used in the last couple of batches. I sprayed with daconil when I saw so many dying plants and it seems to have slowed it down. Has this ever happened to anyone else? It has been unusually warm this past week; but I always associate damping off with cooler conditions and too much water. This batch was treated just like all the others which thrived. Oh well another tomato mystery.