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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: Spookyville on May 15, 2010, 21:58:22

Title: lack of growth
Post by: Spookyville on May 15, 2010, 21:58:22
Hope it starts to get warmer properly this coming week (as forecast fngers crossed). Not much growth on anything in the greenhouse so far. :(
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: Anisemary on May 16, 2010, 00:05:21
That's a relief, I was beginning to think it was just me! Chillies and bell peppers just seem to have stood still for ages, and the tomatoes aren't much better. Not dying, but not growing either!
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: goodlife on May 16, 2010, 08:09:12
Yep..things are going slow...well for the things that you would like to progress..but for those slightly tender ones that are destined to go out... ::)..well..they can't grow quick enough.. ::)
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: OberonUK on May 16, 2010, 11:05:09
Same here in Salford. Peppers have sat still for weeks. A few tomatoes are away now but at a snail's pace. Even indoor-sown radish is taking three time as long as usual. Not even convinced 3-week spread of carrot planting outdoors will result in a succession crop, if all rows suddenly speed up at the same time. It is as though the last month hasn't happened!
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: elvis2003 on May 16, 2010, 11:27:24
same here too....ive also managed to rot quite a few seeds too by watering as if it was a normal year,but as there is not the usual amount of heat in the greenie,the seeds have just been sat in all that water,doh! of course,it was squash and other curcubits this happened to,ya know,the pricey seeds  ???
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: Tee Gee on May 16, 2010, 11:31:04
I agree!

As some of you may know I have been keeping a pictorial diary for the last year.

On looking at it earlier this week I would say things are about three weeks behind this year.
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: cleo on May 16, 2010, 17:14:52
Snap-before reading this thread I was going to ask if anyone was having problems with cucumbers.  Mine are hanging on but not really going anywhere.
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: Deb P on May 16, 2010, 20:35:25
I've had the odd strange germination problem, I'm sure down to the changable weather as everything else has been reliable...dwarf french beans, no germination at all from 4 different types of beans, but all the climbing ones germinated ( ???) and are growing on well, so I bought fresh, resowed and all geminated! ::)

As for growing on, apart from one batch of cauliflowers that are just sitting there sulking despite foliar and watered in liquid seaweed feeds that usually green them up a treat, everything else is ok, but I agree about a month behind last year.

Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: 1066 on May 17, 2010, 07:09:18
Snap-before reading this thread I was going to ask if anyone was having problems with cucumbers.  Mine are hanging on but not really going anywhere.

Ditto! I've been wondering the same thing. Although I don't have a greenhosue all the tender stuff - cuc's, peppers, chillies, aubergines have been on window cills. And frankly have put on hardly any growth. I've ended up trying to shift things upstairs to the highest and brightest room (the spare bedroom). It seems to get the best light. Haven't had to do this before!!

1066
Title: Re: lack of growth
Post by: Spookyville on May 20, 2010, 20:52:54
noticable change the past couple of days with the welcomed warmth. just when things start looing good, no rain for weeks predicted!
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