Article: How To Prevent Damping Off
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How To Prevent Damping Off
Damping off is the single term used to describe underground, soil line, or crown rots of seedlings due to unknown causes.
The term actually covers several soil borne diseases of plants and seed borne fungi.
The fungi which cause root rot are species of Phyium, Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia and Fusarium.
There are two types of damping off:
pre-emergence and post- emergence.
In pre-emergence damping-off, seeds may rot and seedlings may decay before they emerge.
In post-emergence damping off the seedlings emerge then may pale, curl, wilt, and collapse from a rot at the soil line and below.
The base of the stem is generally water-soaked at first then turns gray to brown or black then rots.
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