Give it 1-2 ounces of water and mist the sprout liberally. Dome that seedling and remove to re-mist and some fresh air periodically and daily with a few ounces every 3 days or so 
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Have first actually watering them today. GDP has some funk to her. Ounce and a half each. Mixed 1 cup gassed off water 6drops cal mag 4 drops liquid seaweed. Mixed. It brought oh down to 6.5 on the dot.
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Holy taproot! Leaves almost to edge of cup. Bet she grows and touches by this evening. Should I transplant with this tap root or take the dome off and start the tent humidifier and let her keep searching?
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I am a nube but from my single experience you should wait a little longer for the roots to build up a lil more. It can be messy as well as shocking to the plant if your “rootball” or lack of falls apart while transplanting. Just my opinion love the progress can’t wait to see more.
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I guess I need a bigger dome. Safe for that taproot to just be hanging out between the solocups I guess huh
Definitely wait for expert advice. I’ve not experienced that long of a taproot that early on. I wish I had cuz I’m using bottom watering haha. What i have seen is most growers waiting until they start to circle and hold together. Then they transplant. Those see thru cups should make it easier to monitor. Can become root bound if left circling too long.
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Should prob just cut the cup when transplanting so you don’t damage roots
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Yeah I’ll hold off for a bit. She has about a centimeter to grow before she hits the cup. Prolly change her dome out with something bigger while the lights are on. Very curious what the experienced has to say. My second grow and my first grow didnt do this. Also learned a lot with the use the clear cups and then the red solo. Few holes in the bottoms of clear and a few pebbles between the cups. Searched for a taproot like this on a 10 day old seed. Haven’t found one yet.
Or a taproot in seedling stage this long and haven’t found one.
I am not an expert, but I would agree with @Qubaca to let it develop more roots. It will help keep rootball together for transplant. I let mine go 14 to 17 days. This is a pic from last grow before transplanting. Good luck on your grow.
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Are your rap roots like 8” long?hanging out of the cup?
I saw some roots in the holes I poked in cup. The cup is full of roots when I transplant. For autos I think 14 days is recommended, if it is an auto.
Never saw a tap root do that for me though.
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These are photos. Just didn’t want the tap root to get dry or even sit in water bc it’s just all curled up in the pebbles between cups
@patrick1960 look at this thing lol
That is wild. I don’t want to give bad advice. It seems somehow you need to get the root in soil but not sure how best to do that. That root found that hole and never stopped 
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What do you think @kaptain3d
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I’d say it’s not that bad. That plant will probably be transplanted soon. If not, no biggie either, it will just “air prune” those roots, imo… 
What do you think @Low ?
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I agree with you 
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Right on. Girls are 10 days old. Knowing that this particular plants tap root is hanging 8 inches out the bottom I prolly won’t putt the cups to check roots anymore. Not till I think it’s been what you guys think 14 days? These are all photos. Auto didn’t make it.
If it’s bugging you just pinch it off. It won’t hurt either way. They usually break off when you transplant, all the extra hanging out. They seem to always be a tad more brittle from the air. It won’t hurt (or help) leaving them. They are not circling either way.
I would give them more time. I would quit counting days and look at relative size. @patrick1960 has a perfect example there. See the overhead view how his have broke the plane or footprint of the cup. That middle one of his is the earliest I would do it. Regardless of 14 or 17 or 20 days. Sometimes a seedling needs a bit more time. They usually catch up in veg and all the germ days counting is nothing to stress over.
What I am saying is strains are different levels of vigor at this stage, more than later stages in my opinion. And honestly, some strains are just never as vigorous as others.
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@Sj2019 do you still decarb in the oven before you hit the buttons for the machine? I thought it decarbed with the buttons for what you were doing. I’m getting mixed research. I took last harvest shake put it in the machine and set it and forget it. Got 2 quarts of olive oil. Then I squeezed strained everything and with the handful I had left put that on foil and decarbed. Then reintroduced back into the machine and hit the oil button again. Then strain again. I’ve yet to freeze the new jars for 30 min before the coffee filter strain.
@Flitme I’m still tryin to figure it out.
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