[sion01]

I started some echinacea,arnica,chicory and doronicum(i think thats how you spell it) from seed about 2 months ago and pricked them out when large enough in to 3 inch pots.theyv'e all survived and I hardened them off three weeks ago and put them on an old table out of direct sunshine so they could romp away or so I thought.

The trouble is they haven't really moved from the two true leaf stage which theyv'e been at for about a month.The echinacea are showing another tiny set of leaves but theyv'e just been showing them for two weeks with no actual growth.The others have just sulked.The annuals that I started at the same time are nice and bushy by now and in the garden.I had hoped to pot them on to six inch pots by now and out in to the garden in a couple of months but that plans gone for a burton.

Has anybody got any idea why and how to wake them up?

[arugula]

Are they just sulking from lack of temperature, like some of the veg?

[mumofstig]

Perennials from seed?.....some of mine sure are sulking 
First it was too hot and dry, now it's damp and too cool 

As long as they get big enough by autumn they'll be fine.....................there is no need to panic just yet. Fingers crossed!

[tosca100]

Perrenials and annuals from seed are all sulking. As you said, started well, but when I needed to harden them off because i needed the greenhouse, they stopped growing. The nights have been too cold and it's been very dry. They'll hopefully take off if we get any summer.

[blackisgreen]

some of mine were the same until this week when they started going again

[sion01]

I feel better now.I'd be a bag of nerves if I didn't have this site

[sclarke624]

I put mine down to the cold night temps.  The strawbs haven't taken too kindly to this weather either.  My flowers get going for a while then the temp drops and they all slow down or stop again.