Stunted plants worth saving?

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GreyScales

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Stunted plants worth saving?
« on: June 18, 2013, 19:21 »
Now that all my main plants are in their final pots and doing well, my attention turns to some rather neglected "spares" that sat in the corner in case something went wrong with the others. There are some tumbling toms and a cucumber that are the same age as my main ones but were left in small pots, many of them looking rather small and stunted.

Is it worth throwing them in spare pots to potentially get a late harvest, or will they never develop into full adults having been neglected so long?

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Beetroot queen

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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 19:23 »
If its green and growing it deserves a chance in my book, mine you i am not a true gardener and sometimes feel like i play at it all. I dont right off my plants until they sing the funeral march.  :lol:

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Kirpi

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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 19:30 »
give em a go! Smaller plants once they feel their roots in more compost or allotment soil often catch up with their larger neighbours, helping to spread the harvest period.

What's to lose?

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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2013, 19:50 »
I have about 20 'runts' that I will be plonking into the lotty tomorrow, I did this last year and got a good crop from them before blight hit them.

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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 21:10 »
Those runty tomatoes will flower before the lush plants as they have been under stress and this is a natural response, so..... an earlier crop might be yours  :D
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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 22:34 »
Nowt to lose if you have the space.  :)
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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2013, 23:40 »
Well I'll certainly give them a bit of spare potting mix and see if they do anything, if not they weren't factored in my growing plans this year anyway :tongue2:

Thanks for the responses.

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Re: Stunted plants worth saving?
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2013, 09:48 »
I'm reluctant to pull up my stunted dwarf french beans.  When they were little, most of the seed pods didn't drop off the seed leaves.  I tried taking them off gently, but it broke the leaves, so I left them to do their own thing and they are very stunted.  In fact, none of them are growing from the top at all, although a few are throwing out side shoots.

Some have died, but the others are just sitting there, not doing much!



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