Let them dry out from over watering, then only water when the soil starts to dry out.
Runts often turn out okay after they get past the seedling stage. I have a runt that struggled to emerge from the soil. You can’t tell it was a runt now, after a couple of weeks.
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And if you could explain how you water and how much.
Right now you are doing little plant in a big pot. The transition to a full plant will take time and it will always be susceptible to overwatering.
I did this method with oK success but changed the last run. 4 inch non woven paper pots in a 4 inch nursery pot.
Watering around the paper and keeping the top damp is so much easier than the big pot.
I went from 200 ml per day to 1 liter in a 3 gallon pot with no repot stall. You do not disturb the roots you drop the whole paper pot into the soil of your chosen pot size.
Unfortunately, underwatered can look very similar to over watered. When did you drop the peat pot into the larger pot? I agree that this appears to be looking for water at face value but if there’s a ton of moisture at the bottom of the peat pot the “overwatered” scenario would be viable. But could also be something like dry now but too much water earlier in life kept from a healthy root system forming.
The plants don’t have anything telling them the difference between too much and not enough water. The true issue is lack of oxygen to the root ball. When there’s too much moisture they can’t get oxygen. This is the same reason dwc systems require air pumps and stones to dissolve oxygen in the nutrient solution. But the condition itself isn’t limited to just overwatering as mentioned above.
watered around outer edge of bigger pete pots, went very slow, ph of 6.3… R.O. and ph.ed…
guess its a wait and see game now unless anybody else has any ideas
I would simply lift them out of the soil, leaving them in the peat pots, water them and see if they perk up. If so, you can watch the peat pots you have them in, if the pots are crispy, it likely needs watering. Then, when they take off, transplant to bigger pots, let roots grow to bottom and then they will take watering to runoff, and then dry back before watering again.
Those definitely look underwatered as @Oldguy stated. This is why I don’t like putting seedlings in large pots. It’s going to be a while before you need to actually water the entire pot and that soil is going to get hydrophobic and may already be and that’s why your water is not reaching the roots. You may need to get a medicine syringe or a meat injector and inject the water into the soil near the plant if they don’t respond to your recent watering.
I follow this watering style when I plant autos straight into 5 g pots:
How to Water Your Cannabis Seedlings: The First 30 Days & Beyond
Below, I have a 30-day watering schedule for seedlings in 3-gallon or 5-gallon fabric pots.
Day 1 – Give 2 cups (500ml) water per plant (at this point, your cannabis seedlings should have their leaves completely open and be in a 3-gallon or 5-gallon pot under the grow light)
Day 3 – Give 2 cups (500ml) water per plant
Day 6 – Give 2 cups (500ml) water per plant
Day 8 – Give 3 cups (750ml) water per plant (every 3 days after this)
Day 11 – Give 3 cups (750ml) water per plant
Day 14 – Give 4 cups (1 liter) water per plant
Day 17 – Give 4 cups (1 liter) water per plant
Day 20 – Give 5 cups (1.25 liter) water per plant
Day 23 – Give 6 cups (1.5 liter) water per plant
Day 26 – Give 6 cups (1.5 liter) water per plant
Day 29 – Give 8 cups or 1/2 gallon (2 liter) water per plant
At this point, start watering like this…
(1+ Months) Cannabis Watering Schedule
Wait until top inch of soil is dry (for coco, wait until top is mostly dry)
Water until you get 10-20% runoff out the bottom
Remove runoff (test the pH if needed) and start over
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