Please be kind i am new to this. Trying these out for the first time. Waiting for my celery to sprout, which i prefer to keep at the top of my Tower Garden, so the ports are empty. I am trying to keep as much rain water out of my reservoir so i thought id give these a try instead of the 3d printed port covers i got a while back. They pop off with the slightest breeze. Im in central America where it rains a lot, so they were doing their job just blocking the empty ports. However a day or 2 after transplanting seedlings into the collars, they are dead or bent. Are lettuce seedlings too delicate to use the collars? Are the seedlings not big enough to have transplanted? Am i even using these right? Or are they only for cloning and then into rockwool/leca etc. Thanks for any feedback.
by BugzMiranda
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The have had issues in the past with collars damaging stems and being too tight and restricting nutrient flow. You can cut a wedge off and that can give you more relief in the collars
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Maybe whipping about in wind and damaging them.
I would wait until larger before transplanting, and if you are starting them indoors, harden them off before transplant.
not that those don’t work but in the tower aeroponics i found better success with rockwool cubes