How to grow the young plants in community pot

1)How to grow the young plants

 In order to grow the younger plants well, you had better keep the temperature higher than usual, 18 ~ 20 ℃ and keep the moisture higher, about 70 %. But it is very difficult to keep the condition so long time. Further more, the condition will make it easy to be decease. So you keep the air circulation in your green house using a fan whole day long.
 I recommend you spray medicine of Daisen or Venrate , by 3 ~ 5 times more diluted than usual dilution. After about one month, the roots of plants will begin to grow, you decrease the shade to about 50 ~ 60 %. But check anytime to keep their good growing by yourself.
 When you keep the higher temperature, the young plants will grow well even if it is in mid winter. To grow well, they need the fertilizer. So in this case, they grow well in winter too, you may give the fertilizer by more diluted one than regular. Especially, you grow the plants in mix compost, the compost don't have fertilizer and they need it. You had better not use the solid type fertilizer but use liquid type. Once again, you dilute them more than regular dilution, finally 5000 ~ 10000 times, once every week or 2 weeks. The type of liquid fertilizer should be N:P:K=10:10:25.

2)Transplanting the young plants from CP to a plastic pot individually and grow.

 The beginners want to transplant from CP to the bigger pot individually. It is not always wrong. Although I never say to veteran for their procedures by themselves, I want to recommend for the beginners not to transplant so fast and keep them in CP. Sometimes, we can see their flower in CP. Wait until the size of CP pot is too small for each plants whose NS of leaves would be about 10 cm. In this size, the roots of plants is very vivid and strong. So it will be easy to disentangle their roots. But be careful not to hurt their roots. In one CP, the size of plants will be so different from each other. For the smaller plants, you had better make CP once again for the smaller ones. Once again, don't hurry up to transplant.

(right pot)The good size of young plants but wait for a while to be larger.
(Left pot)The plants will be enough to transplant. It is the best chance when you thin it too late.

After transplanting for individual pots,the plants will be care in the same procedures as in the matured plants basically. After transplanting, you had better the plants under the more shade about 70 % for a month at least. Everyday, you check the plants the unusual accident. Never dry up the compost and too much water is not well also. Foe a few month, you don't need to give fertilizer until their roots grow. The temperature will be higher than usual.

3)The decease and pests for the young plants

 The younger plants, especially the seedlings just after deflasking will be so delicate and is very easy to be decease. In many case, after about one or 2 weeks latter after deflsking, you see a lot of the young plants would be decease and be going to die. You will despair and loose confidence to deflask. In many case, the decease will be Black spots decease, I guess. About the decease , I have prepared another site specially. Please visit the site in detail. But unfortunately, it is in Japanese only. For English, please wait for a while. When the young small plants were deceased, it is very difficult to be treated and care. So it is very important not to be decease, the precaution. As I mentioned many times, you have to see and check the unusual accidents in the plants. As follows, I want to introduce two types of typical decease for the younger plants and just after deflasking, In detail, please visit the special site for decease.

After deflasking, the end of leaves of young plants will be turned to brown and dead, sometimes it looks like rot. Sometimes, we find the young plants in flask of which leaves turning to brown, is not decease. Because in flasks, it is sterile and there is not contamination. It might be dependent on the physiological problems.
But the problems will come soon after deflasking for the plants. Because bacteria and/or fungi will attack the site very easily and cause decease soon. So, before being infected, you cut the damaged site and paste the medicine. It will be OK, perfectly.

In truth, if you leave the damage, the brown site will be going down to the center of plants and the plants will be die or cause the same decease on the other leaves.
Although the healthy young plants will be deceased and turn to brown like rot. It will be caused by one kind of fungi and we say the decease is Black Spots. When the plants were caused in this decease, you have to give up because it is very difficult to treat them. Only you can take off the deceased plants and avoid to infect to other plants. Once again, for the young plants, you have to prevent not to be decease.

Sometimes, by the reason why their physiological problems, the edge of leaves of young plants would be damaged. When you find the damaged, you don't worry and care it soon.

Cut the damaged area about more 2 cm to the base of the plant.

The cut side, you paste the Venrate or Daisen that is dissolved in paste. You never consider about the concentration. In detail, see the decease site .

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