Dropped my seedlings, one bent, one fell out of the soil

Damnit all. I got 2 replacements from Seed Supreme for the two from my initial order that didn't germinate. Up they came, nice little tiny seedlings about 3 cm/1 inch high. One with bigger cotyledons and starting to have nice secondary leaves, and the other was a bit anemic looking but was coming out as well (with just one cotyledon and very tiny main leaves just starting to show).

Anyway while gardening this morning, the tray with them on it fell from about a one meter height, and the larger of the two seemed bent but stayed in the tiny cup and no soil fell out. The tinier one completely fell loose from the soil with one thicker root and some smaller ones exposed. I placed it as gently as I could back in the cup, and put soil around it and then watered both so the soil would flow back around the roots.

I know I will just have to wait and see if they make it, but how likely do you all think it will be that they survive?

LOL we’ve all done that or have shit drop on them. They’re pretty resilient and stand a good chance of surviving. Just don’t fuck with them too much. Good luck

Transplant and fill dirt up all the way to the cotes. Straighten the stem GENTLY with the dirt. Roots will grow from the sides.

BarnBuster said:

LOL we’ve all done that or have shit drop on them. They’re pretty resilient and stand a good chance of surviving. Just don’t fuck with them too much. Good luck

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Transplanted a seedling into soil one night. Next day at work (in dialysis with RO water up the ass available) I decided WTF? Got off work that night and built a simple DWC. The night after that it was complete. Took the new transplant to the sink and used warm water to wash every single root free of organics and put her into rinsed pumice (all I could find at Wal Mart in Alaska in the wintertime). RO was 0.04 EC so adjusted nutes to 250PPM and dropped her in the soup. She NEVER missed a beat and started growing almost immediately!

They ARE resilient.

Yep it's only been a few hours and both of them have already straightened toward the light. Feeling optimistic they will both pull through. Thanks everyone.

make sure your light is fastened securely, that's the other catastrophe we read about often, when it falls onto the plants

BarnBuster said:

make sure your light is fastened securely, that's the other catastrophe we read about often, when it falls onto the plants

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"Help! My light crashed and it split one of my babies stems down the middle!"

And for that we simply put it back together and splint it.

done the same thing a couple weeks ago while transplanting,arthritis hands,transplanting from solo cups to final pot,didnt just drop one but 2 from about 3 ft up,dirt one direction seedling another,nothing but stem and roots and couple leaves,eased them into there pots they are now 3 and 4 in tall healthy as hell

Awww, poor little guys i think theyll be good if theyve straightened out already. Good thing it was only two and not....say...... a whole tray of them i had a clone in the tray once that got broken twice by the dome and the damn thing looked like a candy cane or hooks hand. The little bastard lived and ended up unfolding the claw to grow straight. I almsot chucked it

Happened to me the other day waited to see new growth eventually they bounce back.

yea they do ,i just look at mine amazing growth so far,bright side is super cropping right out of diapers lol