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Vent: My entire batch of heirloom tomato seedlings got fried under my new grow lights yesterday.
I set the timer wrong and they got 18 hours of intense light, which completely cooked all 36 plants I started from seed back in February. Has anyone else had a grow light disaster and managed to save anything?
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margaret996mo ago
Eighteen hours under the grow lights sounds less like gardening and more like you were trying to get a confession out of them. That's a rough way to find out your timer can't be trusted. I guess on the bright side, at least they died for a reason and not because you just forgot to water them for a month. Brookefox has the right idea about checking for green at the base, but honestly, after that kind of light torture, I'd be surprised if anything came back. Maybe just pour one out for the tomatoes and start over.
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brookefox6mo ago
Oh no, that's heartbreaking after all that work since February! I had a similar thing happen when my light fell right onto my tray of peppers. Did you check the stems near the soil line for any green? On mine, even though the leaves were totally gone, a few had a bit of life left at the base. I cut them right back, kept the soil just damp, and put them in indirect light. Two of them actually pushed out new growth after a couple weeks, it was a total surprise.
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wendy_garcia166mo ago
Yeah, the "light torture" thing is real. I left my seedlings under a shop light by accident once and they looked like crispy kale chips by morning. Nothing came back.
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