Thank you for the help!!!! I could only find a chemical fertilizer to dilute in water (all the organic stuff was solid sprinkle on). Anyhow, I cut it down to 1/3 rd strength and applied it every third day twice. BIG improvement!! [IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j154/L1A1Rocker/Garden/HPIM1325.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j154/L1A1Rocker/Garden/HPIM1324.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j154/L1A1Rocker/Garden/HPIM1323.jpg[/IMG] Something else of note. I'm growing slips for sweet potatoes. I did an experiment. When I pulled the slips from the sweet potato I dipped some in a root hormone powder and left some without. The results are remarkable to me: [IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j154/L1A1Rocker/Garden/HPIM1326.jpg[/IMG] Again, THANK YOU for your help in saving my tomato seedlings.

Top growth looks good. I snip off lower leaves that are touching the ground. Mulch with a light airy straw. They should recover if you get those leaves off the wet ground... not sure where in the zone you are but on the east coast we have been soaked for days. like mentioned above, they need to get used to where they are if not properly hardened off...just an adjustment time is needed and another week of patience. I've never ordered tom starts but must be such different growing conditions than where you are...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The "primary" nutrients all plants need to varying degrees are nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Without those nutrients supplied in some form anything else makes little to no difference. Neither peat nor coir supply any of those nutrients. Most brands of fish emulsion supplies all 3 in small amounts. That is why plants normally get transplanted to a growing medium of some sort that contains those nutrients. " though the plugs are bigger ones and lasted for a good 6 weeks last year. Seedlings are just over 4 weeks old at this point." Yeah I know the size of the plug flats you are using. We use many of them in the nursery but for germination and growth only to the first true leaf stage. Then they get transplanted so that feeder root development can begin and you begin to supply them with a diluted form of nutrients. Dave