Tropicals & Tender Perennials: pale leaves, 1 by TriFred

TriFred wrote:
I encountered the same problem with a few of my seedlings. The seedlings started out yellow and when I moved them up to 4" pots they stayed yellow even though all the other seedlings were a deep green. All the seedlings were planted in the same commercial potting soil and were fed the same.

When I bumped them up to a 3 gallon pot nothing changed. I checked the PH and it was fine. I even swapped pots with another seedling just to see if it made a difference and it did not.

I applied some Ironite to this plant and it greened up slightly but it is still yellow compared to all the others.

I noticed the problem seemed to be isolated to some european seeds I obtained on eBay.

Fred