Hi All

I've got a bit of a problem with my 25 day old BB Cheese plants from seed. The stems started to go dark green just above the medium a couple of days ago, but I caught it pretty quickly and made sure the cubes dryed right out before sparingly giving them more water/nutes. I've been handwatering the cubes and must've over done it. I've now got to this point (see pics) and was wondering if these plants have any chance of recovering, or does the rotted part of the stem never heal?

I think I caught it before it really took hold, and am hoping they'll recover without causing total death. What do you think?

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I would of thought that stem rott would show signs first in the roots, as in going brown, yellowing, the darker the worst they get, hard to say from that pic whether it is rotting the stem, look ok to me.

The roots are fine as far as I can see. It's more of a damping off problem than root rot. I caught it early enough for it not to completely thin and weaken the stem. There is still quite alot of decent stem left on most of the plants. I am unsure whether the plant can heal itself where it's rotted though.

Did you ever get this sorted in the end?

To be honest pot, it doesn't seem to have got much worse, although the plants aren't looking that healthy because I cut right down on the feed and water to try and curb it. Alot of the lower leaves are yellowing and dying, but I'd rather lose a few leaves than the stem rot kill the whole plant.

I started with 10 femmed BB Cheese seeds. All 10 germinated fine and the early growth was fast and healthy. I had a friend who was also starting some seeds just after mine, and he developed damping off quite quickly. I think I may have infected my plants after looking at his (I won't make that mistake again). I noticed mine starting to rot almost as soon as it happened. I caught it pretty early, and only 1 plant has so far died (it was the runt anyway). I have 3 or 4 that only have a tiny bit of rot showing on the stem, but it's not really getting any worse, so hopefully these 4 will live and I can make it to flower. If not, I'm gonna grow them as big as poss before they die, and take cuttings and root them. That'll give me the chance to completely disinfect everything they touched.