Where did you get the seeds from were they store bought or saved? To me it doesn't look like anything is eating them it looks more like a mosaic virus. I will say that sometimes when aphids suck the juices out of plants they cause deformed leaves, but I don't think that is the cause. If other people on here think it could be a mosaic virus as well I would destroy those plants and start over. Typically there is discoloration associated with mosaic viruses so maybe that isn't what it is. Sometimes seedlings just have a few deformed leaves initially and then they seem to correct the problem somehow. I have let such plants grow only to be very disappointed with them. Whatever the cause those are examples of plants I would thin out.

as a tree .. it should be allowed to nearly dry between waterings... you should insure that the root ball has gotten water... and then not water again until it begins to dry ... more water can actually be more harmful than to little water ... and ... as in the dahlia post.. its fall .. its shutting down for the season ... i would suggest its the effects of fall .. plus the abuse of the seller who sold it for one dollar [heck.. the pot was probably worth more than a buck] ... lol ... and the transplant ... you have done what you can ... put away the chemicals ... turn off the hose.. insert you finger about 3 inches.. and only water when it is needed ... as for the chemicals ... i have perennials... annuals ... hundreds of conifers.. trees.. and thousands of hosta ... and have used chemicals once in 7 years ... please ... cut back on your chemical use.. it just isnt that necessary ... good luck ken

The first two pictures are a plant in the ground, the last ones are a plant in a 5-gallon spackle bucket. The plants were started from seed in . . . I guess. . . April (?) Planted out around the second week in May. They are all heirloom and indeterminate. The container has 1/3 well-cooked sheep manure/ straw compost, 1/3 peat, 1/3 vermiculite. I dumped hydroponic solution in the container once, several weeks ago. I did not notice any particular change at that time, and it was added only to the bucket and not to the plant in the ground. The bucket gets watered whenever I notice the leaves wilting. The plant that's in the ground has been watered maybe once (I don't have a hose hookup) It has been VERY hot and humid and pretty dry lately. I was surprised that the plants set fruit in the heat. I recently added woodchip mulch around the plants in the ground. I can haul buckets of water out to the garden if moisture might be the problem. The weird thing is that most of the plants in the ground look healthy and green, and that one plant is half dead. The plant in the ground is much worse off than the plant in the pot, and I didn't see it wilt before it turned brown and died. I was worried that it might be something terrible like viral wilt. I would be so relieved if it can be solved by watering more. Thanks so much for the help, Dave

You will need to bring in your flooring samples into the space. Put down a white bed sheet underneath the samples and leave them on the floor. You will assess the floor samples THROUGHOUT the 5 lighting situations. If you see the same clash as what you currently have them toss that sample to the curb. You are the one who sees the clash. You have to be happy with the floors. A white washed plank might do it for you...but again the cherry dining set is the odd man out in your home's decor. Be aware the dining set is going to be an issue (as it currently is now). I suggest you remove the cherry set until you have found a decent floor option. In fact, I would remove it for now and reassess the clash during the morning hours. Just in case you are seeing a clash BECAUSE of the cherry. It is a simple thing that can remove ONE MORE variable. Think of it as a science experiment (which it is...remember primary school when we found about about light and prisms etc?...that was 'science class' for the day). Remove all the variables until you are working with only one. Then add in variables until you find the 'issue'. Technically your issue is the paint. But you want to keep it so we are trying to find a way to help you. Ideally you would repaint. It is the paint that is throwing the blue/gray...not the floors.