![]() ![]() Once you bed is prepared, make a 1/4" depression into the soil and plant your seeds 1" apart. Cilantro doesn't require many nutrients, we usually mix a bit of compost/manure into the soil and call it good.no fertilizer normally is needed. Some people like to soak the seeds for 24 hours prior to planting to increase germination, though we have found this unnecessary. This isn't a bad thing, once the seeds are completely formed you'll have a supply of fresh coriander! Starting cilantro indoors and transplanting can cause it to bolt or worse yet, flop over and die. Just remember that cilantro is a cool weather plant, once temperatures reach 75 F, it will start to bolt (go to seed). In this case it looks like the coriander seed was sown in regular garden soil, somewhat clayey, which can be lumpy and clumpy, settling irregularly, leaving fragile roots exposed.It's best to sow seed directly into the garden in March or after the danger of frost has passed. If they are up and away fast and then their pants fall down they are left feeling a bit awkward. Sometimes ebb and flood irrigation, through the holes in the bottom of the pot, keeps more fluff in the surface medium. If germination takes a long time, by the time it happens perhaps the soil has settled. So it comes down to how much we tamp down the soil when we sow, when and how we irrigate, how deeply we sow and how long germination takes. Plants may recover but have suffered a setback. Roots are not designed to have structural strength and so the plant flops over. As we top water, the loose soil starts to settle down and as it does so it goes to the bottom of the pot and around the lower roots, leaving the growing point stuck up in the air. The seeds germinate and start needing more water. One way this can happen is if the soil is overly loose when we add seeds. If we look closely at the seedlings in the lower left quadrant of the posted image we can see that there is almost a centimetre of light tissue between the growing point and the soil surface. One thing to keep in mind in this situation is sowing in loose soil. I wonder if the nest building of the ants is creating some air pockets and introducing fungal infection or something. There are black ants that used to use the bottom area of the pot as a storage location for their eggs, and they seem to have created their nest in the mud in the pot. The curry leaf plant in the middle seems ok. They grew fine for a few months and now all are listing and withering off. ![]() Now a year later, even garlic plants are dying off. Update Nov 2019: All the coriander plants eventually died. I've seen this answer and etiolation, but since some of the coriander seedlings are growing fine and some aren't, I thought I'd ask. It's happening only in this flower pot, and it's the same soil I've used in the other grow-bag. But even pouring more water didn't help, as today few more of them are flat on the ground. On examining the flattened seedlings, I noticed that the portion of the stem that just emerges from the soil, appeared to be a bit squeezed, as compared to the rest of the stem, so I assumed it could be due to there not being enough water and the soil drying up. They are getting a good amount of sunlight too. ![]() I've been watering them every morning and evening, with just enough water to moisten all the soil. And so on until everyday a few more were getting flattened. Next day another clump of seedlings were flat. I figured a cat or bird must've stomped it. I planted some more seeds in another larger, wider pot, and after germination, a small clump of seedlings in a 2 sq cm area were suddenly flat on the ground one day. I had planted a grow-bag full of coriander seeds and they grew into plants with no problem. ![]()
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