How about a little fire scarecrow?
1/2 of a cotyledon was dried up, so I burned it off with a butane lighter.
Like burning your lawn in the pre air pollution days so it would grow back greener.

any progress with the plant?

my own experience is that most of the time, the plant never gets past the two leaf stage.
the one time a plant managed to send out a new leader was my zolotoe serdtse. i had one seed sprout.
no additional seeds. i had nothing to lose, so kept it alive. after a long time, i had new growth. the plant
never got big, and only produced one small tomato, but thats all i needed. i saved seeds, and the plants i have
growing now that look pretty healthy came from that one small tomato.


keith

a microscopic true leaf forming.
it doesn't take up much space and I have the lights on anyway,so I will let it stay.

He was starting to droop, so I had to re-pot and lay it down.

Extreme Unction on the aspirin plant.
Internal pressure is low and the true leaf may not have enough time to grow.

gangrene set in and I had to amputate down to a 1/2 " stub from the top.
I hit it with straight H2O2 with it on a coffee filter.
This must be the year for defects;I have a fresh brandyman seedling with only 1 cotyledon.
It took 1 month for those saved seeds to pop and they were only 3 years old.