I just transplanted these yesterday and everything is not doing too well… but especially my broccoli! I checked on it hours ago and it was fine- now it suddenly has spots all over and one of the plants looks completely dead… any ideas?
by Friendly_Tomato975
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It looks like sun scald on your broccolis. Did you harden them off before planting them?
They’ll probably pull through but may be stunted for a while, you have to carefully harden off plants like this sometimes
As others have said, they needed to be hardened off. Over the course of at least a week, but preferably 2 you take your seedlings outside to get used to the conditions. First day you do a 30min-1hr in shady conditions. Second day you leave them out a tiny bit longer and expose them to a bit of sun. Keep going until they can tolerate full day sun.
A fella hates to see it, as if broccoli isn’t hard enough! Haha
Considering you missed hardening off, I’m going to assime you also don’t have BT laying around for the cabbage worms, right?
When some of plants survive, which they will, and you have ever seen white butterflies in the garden, make sure to get some BT concentrate to spray with.
You may want to reconsider spacing of the plants if they survive. Broccoli like LOTS of space and won’t head if planted too closely. Like 18” apart each direction kind of spacing.