Garden Pests and Diseases: Bachelor Buttons a hot mess, 1 by BlakeInCanada

BlakeInCanada wrote:
Oh man what trouble these have been. The first batch died after about 30 minutes in the sun as seedlings.

So the second set I meticulously set closer and closer to the curtains each day so that they'd get enough light to survive and prepare for outside. After a month and a half, they still wilt completely horizontal outside on a sunny day. Pictures I've seen of them have much shorter leaves, which I think is due to them wanting more sun. Such a bother for a full sun plant..

But anyway! I've had 2 plants shrivel up and die in the container already, getting the exact same treatment as the rest. And now a third, which was the tallest of them all has had its leaves flop, curl into pale greenielocks, and the bottom of the stem has turned nearly black and thin. I cut it down to 2-3" and might cut to the soil level, but don't have much hope.

What I'm worried about is the rest of them going the same way. I've tried drier, wetter, more sun, completely indoors. Nothing has revived them when they get like that. Is there any sign of something in particular here?