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What should i do?

Discard all of my seedlings.
1 (20%)
Repot the infected seedlings to avoid root rot
2 (40%)
Quarantine my infected seedlings
2 (40%)
Other (Please specify)
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Voting closed: November 14, 2018, 10:32:08 AM

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jako9403

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!!HELP!!
« on: November 12, 2018, 09:49:50 AM »
I came home today and suddenly saw two of my cacao seedlings looking like this


My cacao seedlings are very close and I am so scared! Could they have infected others? One of them has most of it leaves fine but they are droopy. The other had all of it's leaves ruined except for one.

I had something similar happening to my miracle fruit seedlings and they suddenly (slowly) defoliated.
My older MF plants did not have any problems with this.

Damn i have so many seedlings at risk! What can i do?

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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2018, 12:30:19 AM »
While I am no expert, I believe this is a fairly common thing with T. cacao.  Usually the leaves turn brown from the tip going up, but I've seen leaves on my plants just like the ones in your picture.

Logee's has a video and they talk about this "leaf burn" at about time index 3:07.

If the burn occurs on old leaves and you see a new flush of leaves coming on, I would not sweat it.

jako9403

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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2018, 01:09:10 AM »
Yeah but all the leaves seemed dead and twisted + It happened in a few hours!

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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2018, 11:55:22 AM »
Don´t like the Sun, only very filtered , very tropical, does not tolerate coldly, many rain.

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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2018, 03:24:31 PM »
It could be damping off or root rot. Make sure the top soil is dry before watering. You could also add a layer of pure peat moss at the top of soil to minimize fungi problems.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2018, 03:26:52 PM by EvilFruit »
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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2018, 05:11:36 PM »
What kind of grow setup do you have?  You use artificial lights and greenhouse or indoors or ?  It mist be getting cold and dark this time of year in Denmark?
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Re: !!HELP!!
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2018, 05:41:34 PM »
Cacao are notoriously difficult to grow when young due to rot. I've never been successful growing them from seed.
Jeff  :-)