Viewing post #1275740 by needrain

Polymerous said:
What really gets me about that one seedling is the heroic efforts that I went through to save it. I was sure that I DID save that last fan, which I repotted, IN THE SHADE, with a mixture of planting mix, vermiculite, and fine redwood chips (we don't have pine fines here). Yet still, it died........

I have been trying to reconstruct what things I might have done wrong. Fertilizing in the summer? A change in fertilizers? (This year I have been using Miracle-Gro's all-purpose time release fertilizer, with some alfalfa meal and also some supplemental liquid fertilizing.I don't recall what I used last year, but prior to last year it was Osmocote.)

Right now I have seeds from that hoped-for bridge plant, and I am wondering if I should just chuck them...

Same here. I had a piece that was growing really well for almost a month and I thought I'd successfully salvaged some of the plant. Then it just cratered. And I've been trying to determine what may be causing it. My fear is that it's going to be an unavoidable combination of heat and moisture. I've also wondered if some cultivars might be more susceptible than others, but I'm doubtful there are any studies. Best case there would be other folks' experiences. If a cultivar showed a tendency to get rot over a wide range of growing conditions among a number of growers, it might indicate that cultivar had low resistance. I doubt the numbers are available to establish that. I'd plant the seeds :).

Is the rot the Erwinia bacteria? It sure smells like it.