Garden Pests and Diseases: Baobab seedling losing vitality, 0 by Canariensis

Canariensis wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of being given a couple of Adansonia grandidieri seedlings. The problem is that it's been some days since I don't see any advance in them. It's rather the opposite, apart from changing a bit their color and getting some ugly spots in what should be its future cotyledons, I guess.

They still are in Jiffy peat pellets. What I've done till now is reduce the watering a bit. They have been in the open and the temperatures have been around 25 degrees Celsius (around 77 F). It hasn't been very sunny lately.

Now that I'm thinking of it... wouldn't it be advisable to change them into new pellets and / or transplant them into pots? Could it be possible that they're being affected by some pest or fungus? since the pellets have been among other pots and perhaps the soil from those pots could have contaminated the ends of the roots that have been peeping out from under the pellets since a couple of days ago.

Any other suggestion? Do you think that I'm right? What would you recommend me?

Of course, they are a couple of jewels that I would regret a lot to lose.

Here are the plants some days ago. They grew a lot in a couple of days and they looked very healthy:


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This message was edited Aug 14, 2011 7:47 PM