Rootless

[muddled]

I've just potted on some tomato seedlings...well, plants really.

They're a little bit leggy from being on the windowsill too long, but not excessively so.

The thing is, they have almost NO roots!
I'm expecting a nice tight little rootball, ready to go up from large module to small pot and what I've got is ridiculously top-heavy plants...two sets of true leaves, each leaf 2-3 inches long....and no roots.

Does this mean there is something very wrong with my compost?

[Penellype]

They could be too wet meaning that the roots have rotted. Pot them good and deep and ease off the watering a bit and they should be ok.

[Thelma Sanders]

I had the same thing with seedlings in Westlands compost - potted them on with a different compost and they recovered well

[muddled]

These were in westlands!

Thank you both, new compost and less watering it is!