[Christo]

Hi, hope peoples can offer some advice.

I germinated some seeds while I was away in Germany for 5 days and they came up a lot quicker than they normally do. They were in a cell tray with a plastic cover in a nice warm dark spot.

It seems as though the carrots & spring onion seedlings grew really quick and hit the plastic cover and then bent over and grew downwards  (make any sense?). They looked really thin and white (almost transparent). They've been in the sun all day today so I'll see how they look tonight. Any thoughts on whether they will end up being weaklings? Is it worth tring to save them? In which case should I just start again now.

The courgette seedlings look nice and strong though. 

[DD.]

Carrots and spring onions do not need to be in a dark, warm spot. They are transparent due to the lack of light. You were lucky with the courgettes.

Outside in some nice sunlight will do nicely.

I'd start again.

[compostqueen]

they were heading for the light!  Carrots would have best been sown direct in the ground rather than trying to sow and transplant them  

Spring onions might well be ok potted on into fresh compost. You could bury them a bit deeper to get rid of some of the legginess   but don't firm the compost down very much, just give it a shake to settle it down and then water from underneath by sitting the tray in a larger one or a washing up bowl etc. You could feed them at this point

if they're truly too puny to pot on you could eat them as they are   Then sow some more. They are very hardy and will be fine outdoors