Little update on Mary Kate & Ashley....
It's been two and a half days since I buried the germed beans...I remember someone saying that
the cotyledons need light inside either 3 or 4 days (can't remember) so I decided to carefully dig
around a little bit with the blunt edge of my x-acto knife.
Mary Kate was maybe 2-3 mm below the surface, normal standard deployment. elbow/arch first.
Ashley had apparently gone in upside down...tap root had come up then took a turn horizontally
then headed back down...but cotyledons were trapped headed downward. So I very gently got
the cotyledons pointed upwards, got the big 3-turn section of tap root reburied, then re-buried
everything else except the very tips of the cotyledons. (didn't want to put her out on the beach
before she was ready for the sun) They sprinkled some White Lightning (better mycos with like
10 times the spore count) top-dress style and gently watered it in over the area with the tap root.
I figured it make repair the exposure that the tender, young tap root experienced from the short
exposure....
We'll see if I mucked it up or not. I was pretty gentle.