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Title: what went wrong... lettuce
Post by: theamatteurgardener on August 08, 2007, 22:58:39
Good evening everyone.

I've been growing some lettuce in a tub for a while now, but seemingly overnight they've gone from healthy tough green bulbs to really soft, rubbish flimsy ones :( I went to pull them up earlier this evening and they looked like different plants!

(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5748/img8382aww5.jpg)
3/8/2007

(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5317/img8390mb0.jpg)
8/8/2007


Did i pick them too late? Too much sun? Help!
Title: Re: what went wrong... lettuce
Post by: saddad on August 09, 2007, 07:38:04
Possibly they dried out too much with them being in a small tub but I'd suspect stem damage from a wee timerous beastie... difficult to see without harvesting or a bad case of root aphids.. again not visible until plant pulled up...
:-\
Title: Re: what went wrong... lettuce
Post by: theamatteurgardener on August 09, 2007, 21:47:30
Would that occur over such a small period of time? - Terrifying!

They feel like let down balloons. How sad.  :(