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Both pots were started at the same time from the same batch of strawberry starts. They should have the same soil box. Both grew vigorously last spring/summer and got visited by deer in the fall. Both bounced back pretty well before winter set in. The left pot is very happy, the right... Not so much. I do recall the big pot having quite a bit of wilted leaf cover all winter, but don't think that was the case for the pot on the right. Maybe I didn't notice a late in the season deer visit that set the small pot back? Maybe the smaller pot got just enough colder than the big pot to kill some roots? Any other theories?

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Is a cat sleeping on your starts? One of our boxes just wouldn't grow and we were mystified, until we caught our cat sleeping there one afternoon.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Haha! This is possible (we brought a backyard cat into our house as a kitten whose mom never came back for her and she turned out to be the best cat ever), but all our cats are indoor cats and they like to grumble whenever we get an occasional visit from a neighbor's cat.

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