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Don't reuse potting mix and don't use garden soil or compost. Sterilize all used pots and trays in a solution of 10% household bleach by soaking for 30 minutes.Infection of seedling stems by the damping off fungi results in thin wiry rotted stems that cannot support the seedling. Low light, overwatering, high salts from over fertilizing and cool soil temperatures are all associated with increased damping off. And any condition that slows plant growth will increase damping off.

The damping off pathogens thrive in cool wet conditions. Disease is particularly severe when seeds are planted in soils that are too cool for optimal germination or when weather turns cool and wet after planting resulting in slow germination and growth. Seeds planted directly into the garden can also suffer from damping off. If you use garden soil to fill seedling trays, you could introduce the damping off pathogens that cause the disease into the warm wet conditions best for seed growth. Garden soil often contains small amounts of the damping off pathogens. Once introduced to a seedling tray, the damping off pathogens easily move from plant to plant by growing through the potting media or in shared irrigation water. is often introduced on dirty hands, contaminated tools or by hose ends that have been in contact with dirt and debris. can be blown in and carried by insects like fungus gnats, or move in splashing irrigation water.

Pots, tools, and potting media that have been used in previous seasons and are not properly cleaned can harbor the pathogens.

The pathogens can be introduced into the seedling tray in several ways. In the future, perform a soil test before fertilizing and make sure that your plants are getting enough light to develop strong stems and branches.Mushy tan spots on these seedlings are signs of infection by damping off fungi that can be caused by over watering.Īll of the pathogens (fungi and molds) responsible for damping off survive well in soil and plant debris. This makes room for new leaves and shoots, and helps prevent the damaged, browning tissues from encouraging disease. If your plant stems are broken, rather than bent, you can help them recover by removing severely damaged tissues within a week after the damaging rain. Under these conditions, your plants may have developed leggy, weak growth that was unable to flex enough to protect them from damage. Healthy plants can take a good pounding from the rain and will come back for more, but if your plants have been over fertilized or are planted in an area where the light is really too low for them, you may have a problem. Let them be, and watch them come back from their beating. Don’t try to prop plants that are rain-flattened, since this can lead to additional damage. Sometimes flowers are damaged and leaves slightly torn, but your plants will replace these injured areas much faster than it seems possible if you leave them alone to do it. If instead they remained rigid in the face of such an intense beating, their tissues would have broken or cracked, causing important transportation pathways to be severed.Ī few days to a week after a damaging storm, your plants will perk back up.

Your plants may look terrible, but their flexibility saved them from a monstrous rain storm.

Heavy rain damage on plants may leave them looking like they’ve been flattened to within an inch of their lives, but if you take a closer look at stems and branches, you’ll notice something amazing - most of those rain damaged parts are bent, not broken. Although plants flattened by rain are a troubling sight, torrential rains and plants have been co-existing for thousands of years - healthy plants are perfectly capable of managing rain damage. When rain is knocking down plants, gardeners often despair, worried that their precious petunias will never be the same. Rain is as important to your plants as sun and nutrients, but like anything else, too much of a good thing can spell trouble.