It looks like the remaining survivors will make it. There were quite a few plants with no root system at all. The plants had a couple of 1/8" leaves and a small stem, but no roots. The stem was somehow absorbing enough water to keep the plant alive...they weren't growing, but they were alive.
So after all these plants have been through...
This is a new flat of salvaged plants after transplanting. It was one of those days. I was too exhausted to get pissed, but I did get a good chuckle out of it.
The nickel treated plants are doing the best out of all of them.
Pretty miraculous huh? I should still end up with about 3000 plants and of a lot of experience in transplanting and different potting mixes. I'll do a thread just on the different mixes I used after I see what kind of results I get from various brands, mediums, additives and combinations of all of them.
Hopefully, I'll be able to finish transplanting them tomorrow. This will give them a couple of weeks before they get set in the field. They'll probably still be too small to use a setter, so It looks like it's going to be another season of hand planting...Oh boy.