"Crud" gremlin visiting seedlings again

Yak54 · April 29, 2014

Hi all. Just a note to say my seedlings are about 4-5 days from transplanting into 8oz. cups and I just noticed tonight that one of my hearts has the familiar signs of "the crud". Have not had any for 3-4 years now, but this year it is on my Volovsko Srce Val seedlings. Not on any of my other two hearts, at least not yet. What I usually do is keep them seperated from the other seedlings once they get transplanted, and trim the burnt tips of the leaves off. Once they spend a week or so outdoors, it always clears up. These days I don't panic like I did when I first observed it many years ago. Of course it sure did help me to learn that other people had similar experiences and that I wasn't the only one. And of course when I found out that it had been given a name, "Crud", I felt like it had been aptly named for sure. We can thank our friend Carolyn for the catchy name, and for helping me understand it, and to learn to live with it. Life is good

April 29, 2014	#1
Yak54 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2009 Location: Madison, OH, zone 6 Posts: 458	"Crud" gremlin visiting seedlings again Hi all. Just a note to say my seedlings are about 4-5 days from transplanting into 8oz. cups and I just noticed tonight that one of my hearts has the familiar signs of "the crud". Have not had any for 3-4 years now, but this year it is on my Volovsko Srce Val seedlings. Not on any of my other two hearts, at least not yet. What I usually do is keep them seperated from the other seedlings once they get transplanted, and trim the burnt tips of the leaves off. Once they spend a week or so outdoors, it always clears up. These days I don't panic like I did when I first observed it many years ago. Of course it sure did help me to learn that other people had similar experiences and that I wasn't the only one. And of course when I found out that it had been given a name, "Crud", I felt like it had been aptly named for sure. We can thank our friend Carolyn for the catchy name, and for helping me understand it, and to learn to live with it. Life is good