OR they are sensing the shorter days and are preparing for winter. Look closely, most everything is currently preparing for winter. Our trees are setting buds, thickening bark, adding caliper, all in preparation. Very few trees will grow straight through. Our freeman maples grow right up to summer solstice, then stop.They add caliper while growing, but then stop for about a month or so (no doubt now growing roots) followed by an increase of caliper again. Our Oklahoma Redbud, grows to solstice, then adds caliper.Tulip Tree grows and adds caliper until solstice, then stops and I assumes grows mostly roots. Point being, is that while the pattern varies, once the days begin to grow shorter, changes are triggered and you can not expect the same unvarying behavior. You seedlings need to be preparing for winter, and top growth is not preparing for winter plus uses resources that need to be stored away (part of what drives a caliper increase) for next spring. The Weed-B-Gon was a coincidence. Correlation does not prove causation. Arktrees

Whether de jure or de facto, there's far too much lingering segregation and too many people with racist attitudes in the US. It's shameful. Had I been a doc at the hospital where the disgusting incident raee describes happened, I would have had a long talk with the patient. And might have suggested they would be happier at another hospital, because at "my hospital", patients don't choose staff docs and that thoughts coming from attitudes like his were never followed.

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You have done far, far better than I would have expected you would. I'm going to say no, don't reseed; this seed is still coming in at the temperatures you're reporting, and probably will for the next week or two, right up to Memorial Day. After that, it's going to be too late to seed, and I wouldn't bother. Feed it then, and ride it through the summer as best you can, seeding anything that's thin in mid-August as summer begins to fade. Yes, it's inconvenient, yes, you're probably going to have to patch soil that erodes. And yes, it's not going to look great. And yes, you're absolutely going to have to water that through the summer to keep it alive. Unfortunately, that's what happens with spring seedings.