Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Brug Dieback????? please take pity and help a newbie :-), 1 by

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Hi everyone this is all so interesting :)
May I show you something ...I planted all of these seeds at the same time 21st Dec and the first picture is of the seedlings planted into washed river sand (with just a little cow poo mixed in) once they were up ...only used seaweed tonic on them ...until potting on into 4" pots ...then fish fertilizer once they got going ...just potted on again and they are really small plants now.
In the second pic are the ones planted into a good potting mix ...as you can see they struggled and I have just planted them into the sand mix. This is a huge difference. I offer this to people who get heavy rain ...it seems that so long as the water can drain away they won't give trouble, here in our Summer it has been constant rain and the little seedlings in the water holding medium have suffered.
OK here are the sand grown ones