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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on July 02, 2020, 11:17

Title: Veggie seeds grown in toilet paper rolls.
Post by: Kleftiwallah on July 02, 2020, 11:17

Good morning everyone,  I hope you all have the rain you need? 

To my question, I tried to grow veggie seeds in cardboard tubes a couple of years ago, not impressed as the tubes all went soggy (naturally) and fungus ridden.  What did I do wrong, or what did I fail to do correctly?

Over to you knowledgeable people.   Cheers,   Tony.

Title: Re: Veggie seeds grown in toilet paper rolls.
Post by: Yorkie on July 02, 2020, 11:19

I don't think you did much wrong - mine did this too.

Title: Re: Veggie seeds grown in toilet paper rolls.
Post by: JayG on July 02, 2020, 12:17

I think it's the glue they use to stick the tubes together which gives rise to the fungus.

Never seemed to do any harm to the seedlings, although these days I use old telephone directories to make paper pots which don't cause the same problem.

Title: Re: Veggie seeds grown in toilet paper rolls.
Post by: Aunt Sally on July 02, 2020, 15:54

Richie’s paper pots. 


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Title: Re: Veggie seeds grown in toilet paper rolls.
Post by: rowlandwells on July 03, 2020, 18:49

I to have had the same with peat pots because i sowed some carrot seed in peat blocks and they have started to grow in the pots when i went to move the pots they started to fall apart i give up!

its back to sowing the carrot seed directly in raised beds   :mad: