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Wait until after mother's day next year regardless of the weather. Had the same thing happen to me today :(
Part of bothering with it is exactly about dealing with this. You learn for next time. That said, I grow almost everything inside in a controlled environment
Sorry for your loss, and hope you get some recoveries, but in my experience if they're badly frosted they never really recover. Might be worth planting out new seeds directly in the ground for anything that can manage it.
Around my neck of the woods the common wisdom is don't plant anything out until Victoria Day weekend (May 24), and every year I ignore it, and lose a ton of seedlings as a result. Trying to be a little less hasty this year and started hardening things off today, but we've had frost warnings all week so who fuckin' knows eh
How cold did it get and for about how long?
There are times things we've planted out here looked dead but started putting out leave buds near the base or perked back up after the temps rose and some liquid water got back into the plants.
So maybe all is not lost.
Was it warm and sunny for several days before? Maybe there was enough residual ground heat to keep the root system going?
desperately trying to stay positive for you
So sorry to hear that comrade, has happened to me before absolutely gutted.
i HATE hardening off plants. I invariably have like a 60% failure rate when it comes to transplanting something I sprouted in my room to the great big outdoors. Even if I do the overly meticulous shit of bringing the plant out for a single hour a day to prevent it from being immediately sunburnt - as soon as I stick it outside overnight, it'll either slowly die back or just say "fuck you" and die immediately. The only plants I've ever not had this problem with are my oxalis, sedum, and pepper plants that I bring in whenever Fall gets underway
