Burning Transplants?

[DuskrayTroubador]

I plan on transplanting my seedlings in the coming days. They're about two weeks old since they sprouted, a couple inches tall with very healthy leaves. Currently in solo cups with 2/3 Light Warrior Seed starting mix and 1/3 Ocean Forest. Upon transplant into their holes for the rest of the season, I wanted to give them a 1/4 dose of fertilizer and spray them with Spectracide's Malathion to keep the bugs from killing them so early. Do you think the 1/4 dose of fertilizer and insect spray combined with transplant shock (albeit transplant shock should be minimal, because they are so young) will be too much and will burn the seedlings?

 

[DuskrayTroubador]

I plan on transplanting them in the morning so if anyone has an answer to give it'd be much appreciated.

 

[Photosynthesis]

When moving seedlings of most any type outdoors you need to do it in stages.

First day put them outside in the shade for 3-4 hours
Second day put them outside in the shade for 3-4 hours
Third day bump it up to 5-6 hours in the shade
Fourth day 3-4 hours in the sun
5th day 3-4 hours in the sun
sixth day 5-6 hours in the sun
7th day they will be good to go.

I have lost a lot of plants to stress by moving them directly form indoor to outdoor.

The schedule above is something similar to what I do, but there are a million ways to skin a cat.

The easiest thing to do is to germinate them outside. No need to condition them to the outdoors then.