Cobra trauma

[glut]

I have some healthy young cobra beans that I realised were getting a bit ahead of themselves because they were indoors. So yesterday I potted them on and put them ourside for about 3 hours to start hardening them off. They now look very sad Have I caused to much trauma on one day? is this normal? or is there anything I can do to get them back to their previous peppy selves?

[coreopsis]

Is it not too early for them?I think they are not hardy

[glut]

lol, probably! I read they could be sown in April and I got a bit ahead of myself. On the up side I have plenty of time to start again...

[JimmerG]

Hmmmmmm, the weather has been a bit chilly lately - and French beans are a little delicate. I suspect they got a bit of a shock. I'd say it was a little early for sowing Cobra, let alone hardening them off.

Have they dramaticaly flopped? If they have - its not normal, my instinct would be to bring them back indoors. Do they have enough water?

Onec they've recovered, maybe just stick them a greenhouse or cold frame during the day and bring them back indoors at night - temps will drop for next week!

[womble]

They really don't like cold winds, methinks you might want to sow again and just experiment how far you can push these ones.

[zazen999]

Sometimes they recover, but sometimes they don't.

It will soon be warm enough to sow outdoors which means no hardening off needed.

[womble]

Don't know about you zazen, but if I sow before the middle of May, my seeds almost always rots in the ground and gets eaten by bugs.

Even then it happens alot.

[zazen999]

I never sow in the ground...modules only. But outdoors, in modules, peas are coming through now. So, it won't be long until the beans can go outdoors.

[Two_Sheds]

As everyone else has said, and you have discovered: it's too early for French Beans (they're from South America ... it's a bit warmer over there).

Start them off about a month before your last frost.

[Flummery]

I do mine late April. Then I only have to sow them once!

[glut]

Okay, lesson learnt. I need to sit on my hands a bit. I will probably plant straight out into modules in the cold frame in a couple of weeks then. I also have peas inside but they seem a bit more rufty tufty so I will carry on hardening them off and put them out with the beans. sigh.