RIP Seeds

I think I killed my hanging basket seeds!!! I put 5 different rows of seeds in one tray and some started to come through but a few fews haven't, I bought a clear lid thinking this would help and some more have come through but there are still loads that haven't.

The reason I think I have killed them is that some of them that have peeped through the surface have now developed furry white beards!!!

Should I just start again!

 

Sounds like the dreaded Damping Off lelly. For solving this problem look at this thread
http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000042

Hope it helps and good luck.

 

'furry white beards'!! some seeds germinate with their root hairs showing before they turn downwards into the compost and can resemble fungus. Without pics I could not tell you whether it is fungus or not, hope it isn't or you may lose them all. As a preventative, water seed tray prior to sowing with Cheshunt Compound fungicide.

 

I posted the same about some stocks I had recently sown, I left them for a week and all the little white beards have disappeared and they are doing great, so I assume the root hairs which Strongy has mentioned. Leave them a few days to see what happens. You may want to prop the lid open slightly with something for a few hours a day to get some air in. Diferent varieties of seed will have different germination time some start coming through after a few days other takes three weeks so you may just need to be patient with some of them