Propagation: Weird cotyledons, 1 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
First off those are beautiful seedlings -- nice and stocky.

It looks to me like the cotyledons have done their jobs and are disintegrating. I have a photo somewhere of it happening on geraniums....it will get worse, and as it gets worse, your 2nd set of true leaves will be coming out, and the time the third sets comes out those cotyledons should be history...but you won't be as worried about it because you'll have so much beautiful new growth.

If you look at the geraniums on the right. you can see the reddish leaves. That's what happens to geraniums as the cotyledons start to go by the wayside -- as it happens, I will get a second set of true leaves forming on my seedlings and they'll look like the one on the left which is 3 weeks older. Can you see the little 3/4 dead leaf in the lower center of the left hand plant, well under the bigger leaves?

Suzy