Seed casing still attached!

[FionaH]

Oh dear, I have to confess , I wriggled out of the straight jacket and sort of had a little pull and...well now I have a headless seedling

You utter MUPPET

[selfraising]

You utter MUPPET

It lured me

[SarzWix]

Well, just to counter this argument, I removed the seed casing from 5 tomato seedlings this morning, and damaged none. So ner You just have to give it a little squeeze from the edges of the seed and it makes it part enough to ease the leaves out.

[Bren In Pots]

Oh dear, I have to confess , I wriggled out of the straight jacket and sort of had a little pull and...well now I have a headless seedling

Been there and done that

[glasgowdan]

Is it really much of a problem? It's just a seedling, you surely planted more. I could never find time in my life to spit on my stuck seed casings every day to ease them off over an extended period of time heh!

[FionaH]

Is it really much of a problem? It's just a seedling, you surely planted more.

She has probably planted loads! This is just a bit of chit chat ya know?

[selfraising]

Is it really much of a problem? It's just a seedling, you surely planted more. I could never find time in my life to spit on my stuck seed casings every day to ease them off over an extended period of time heh!

Due to lack of space, I only sow two of each variety as they have to go in windowsill propagators. They are chilli seedlings and for some reason I had trouble getting them to germinate this year so this was already a second sowing.
As this one has now been beheaded its a bit late, I think, to re-sow

[zazen999]

I sowed chillis in May last year SR - and still got fruits so go for it. And you are significantly more south of me!

[King Carrot]

Is it really much of a problem? It's just a seedling, you surely planted more. I could never find time in my life to spit on my stuck seed casings every day to ease them off over an extended period of time heh!

After a while you develop a really good aim - I'm just like Josey Wales I've had so much practice, see that stuck on seedcase over there, -ting- sorted.

[selfraising]

I sowed chillis in May last year SR - and still got fruits so go for it. And you are significantly more south of me!

Really? Great, will sow some more

[Sylvan]

Oh dear. Time to add me to the ranks of seedling decapitators.

I had been spitting on Auntie Madge several times a day for a week and she was still sitting there looking pathetic. Over the years I've eased off several other seed cases and only occasionally nipped off the very end of a seed leaf so this morning I squeezed the edges, inserted a nail under the bottom and pushed ever so gently...

Thing is, I opened the seed case afterwards and there's nothing green in there. Looks as though she never actually developed seed leaves.

[janeyo]

I pull the seed casing bits off all the time, not yet had one beheaded - think you have to not do it too early.

[Jamesy_uk]

Sorry they are impossible to resist, they taunt you, then taunt you a further time while telling you your father smelt of elderberries and your mother was a hamster.

[Sylvan]

Yup, that's what it did yeronner!

[Bren In Pots]

I'm feeling very pleased with my self I managed to free a Cayenne chilli pepper this afternoon and it looks like it will make it.