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Provide your plants with adequate lighting Sterilize gardening equipment prior to use In the guide below, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about damping off to make certain it never becomes a problem in your garden. There are also some tips you can follow for dealing with damping off if it does manage to find its way into your grow room. The good news is that, though damping off is common and destructive, there are certain steps that you can take to prevent it from ever becoming a problem with your indoor or outdoor seedlings.

Damping off can also cause issues in a wide variety of plants, so no matter what you sow, you may need to take special precautions to ward against damping off. These troublesome fungi can harm plants directly sown in outdoor garden spaces, but they can also be transported indoors, where their impact on seeds and seedlings can be devastating. The majority of damping off is caused by the fungi pythium, although other fungi, like fusarium, sclerotinia, phytophthora, and Rhizoctonia solani can cause damping off too. Under certain conditions, damping off can also target mature plants and cause root or crown rot if the environment is favorable to the fungi’s needs. However, young plants remain vulnerable until they mature enough to develop several sets of true leaves and a vigorous root system.

Most common in new seedlings, damping off generally occurs in the first few days after planting. Damping off disease is a disease most people are familiar with if they have ever started seeds inside. Spread by fungus and molds that naturally occur in plant debris and soil, damping off can rapidly kill tender seedlings before they mature and can destroy entire flats of plants in just a few days.

Damping off is a disease that is quite common when growing vegetables, herbs, and flowering plants from seed.