On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:07:43 +0100, "Emrys Davies"
wrote:


"Trevor Appleton" wrote in message
...
I meant to post this when I received my 100 busy lizzy plugs three
weeks
ago.

Last year I got them at the same time and planted them in 3 inch pots
in
mult pupose with a little slow release (as I have done this year), and
they
just sat there for weeks on end and never moved. It was well into
summer
before some of them eventualy grew away healthily and spectaculalry
whilst a
few just withereds up and died.

Looks like the same things happening this year. Where am I going
wrong.

There in a bubble wrap insulated greenhouse which is frost free.

Have recently adjusted night temperature to nearer 5-7C to see if that
helps.

Trevor,

It's all to do with temperature and light. Initially they are grown in
ideal conditions and then they find themselves being transported to your
greenhouse and during all of this temperatures fluctuate considerably
and the lighting and air circulation is far from ideal. Consequently
they have a shock to their system from which they find it hard to
recover.

A Max - Min thermometer will help you considerably. Try and maintain a
minimum temperature of 10ºC, but that may be costly.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

I agree with you Emrys. I received 120 plug gazanias in the post a few
weeks ago. The instructions said pot on immediately and keep in a
humid atmosphere at 15C. Fat chance, I thought, so I potted them up
into 2" pots and put them on the floor of the unheated G/H, as no
space on the staging.

They've been very slow to move :-(


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Chris

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