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GaNinFl said: OBTW, the white seedlings don't survive. I'm sure some here, @ sooby perhaps, will explain why. It escapes my memory right now.

It's because plants make their own food for growth etc.from light by photosynthesis (fertilizer just supplies the needed minerals but is not really "food"). Photosynthesis requires the pigment chlorophyll, which is what gives plants their green colour,. Without chlorophyll an albino plant can't make its food so eventually, when it has used up the resources stored in the seed, it will die from starvation.