Missing seedlings.... Crap

Went to check on my 5 girls, were all doing well. 2 were missing, cut off wt the top of the dirt, one of them still had a partial stem sticking out... Not sure if it will regenerate leaves or not...... I'm not sure what did that, maybe a deer as they were outside in 3 gallon pots

Could have been anything from cutworm to deer. the one with the partial stem will not regenerate. How big were they? I wait until they are about a foot tall and pretty thick before I put them out. It makes for a MUCH better survival rate. If something takes a nibble, (and something almost always does) it's no biggie.

They were 3" tall, I had no lights so had to put em out. I'll get some lights in the future but I'm a beginner. I think a simple screen around them would have prevented this, the dirt was disturbed around them so I'm thinking it wasnt a worm.

So far I feel my results have been way above average for my first season as I have some dandy looking plants, but every now and then you get reminded you are a newbie and it puts u in your place, all u can do is chalk it up as a lesson learned and move on. I thought about puttin wire over them til they were bigger but didnt, should have....... Gotta invest on some indoor stuff too

gotta protect those things from all the thousands of motherfuckers that wanna eat them out there

cannabis plants are tasty

to pretty much everything alive

that, and privacy, are the prime benefits of growing indoors

S7M said:

Went to check on my 5 girls, were all doing well. 2 were missing, cut off wt the top of the dirt, one of them still had a partial stem sticking out... Not sure if it will regenerate leaves or not...... I'm not sure what did that, maybe a deer as they were outside in 3 gallon pots

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could be birds, slugs, earwigs etc...

keep your seedlings indoors till they are 6 inches high, then slowly prepare them for outside by "hardening them off" (look it up for directions and schedules for your region, use the tomato plant as your stand-in for dope)

Yep I had slug protection. Had copper wire laying around each plant pot.

Gonna buy some wire tonight to build some cages and try again.

cindysid said:

Could have been anything from cutworm to deer. the one with the partial stem will not regenerate. How big were they? I wait until they are about a foot tall and pretty thick before I put them out. It makes for a MUCH better survival rate. If something takes a nibble, (and something almost always does) it's no biggie.

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yea, best to germinate and start the vegging indoors, then move them outside. they arent resilient at all when they are seedlings

Deer dont like the smell of mothballs..

this ate them

I went last night and found some green wire, it's about 24" tall and I made round cages the same size as the pots. I clipped portions of the bottom out to leave single wire sticking down about 3" long to give me a way of sticking them in the soil, worked like a charm and looked great... The green is really hard to see