On Mar 28, 11:16*am, Judith Smith wrote:
Bugger, bugger, bugger........

I have in previous years lost some tomatoes to damping off - despite,
as I thought *being meticulous re hygiene in my greenhouse and using
cheshunt compound

Last year I kept them all in the house on window sill until ready for
potting on to 3 inch pots - all fine.

This year:

Washed plug tray, seed tray, seed tray cover all in disinfectant and
washing up liquid.

Bought new seed potting compost.

Soaked compost well with Cheshunt compound

Planted my 42 seeds and put them on windows sill in bedroom - two
weeks ago.

Bottom watered with Cheshunt compound

Only sixteen seeds through - tallest about an inch. Thought *I'll
speed up germination and use the heated sand bed in the greenhouse -
so moved everything in to greenhouse.

This morning - 14 of them all with damping off - gone, finished,
done!!

I am very sure that it is damping off.

So the point is - what more can I do - does the greenhouse itself need
a good Jeyes Fluiding or something.

Is the damping off "spores"/bacteria or whatever in the green house
and air-born?

Or - despite my certainty - could it be something other than damping
off??

For now I am repeating last year - starting again *- *and keeping in
the *house until ready to pot on.

Did I say : bugger, bugger, bugger

Poor Judith, scrap them and start again there is plenty of time. Keep
them a bit on the dry side. It could be that it was too humid in the
greenhouse and add that to a wet compost and you have excellent
conditions for damping off? Good luck with the next lot.

Judith