So that’s where I’m at right now. I have two more seeds in a damp paper tower (learning!). If the two weaklings haven’t snapped back by the time the new seeds have roots, there will be a culling.
I’ll keep the super weak nutes going and only every other watering.
This is all for medicine for the SO. I might indulge a lil bit to… you know… test the product…
I’ve been reading and researching guides, blogs, forums, and even books, for about 2 years now. It became obvious to me that all this information in my head is just gobbledy gook until it’s actually applied.
There is no shame in making a mistake. I’ll be rooting (haha a PUN) for you too!
@CreepyTee, Welcome to the forum, I am new here too, but yeah I would have to agree with the others, way too early for nutes in my humble opinion, especially depending on what type of soil you are using. I will be using a half and half mixture of Fox Farms Ocean Forest and Fox Farms Happy Frog. I have been told that I may not need any nutes until into flower. The way I look at it, you didn’t do anything wrong, you just learned how to not do it again. In my opinion, the best mindset to have going into anything. I haven’t got my tent set up yet, still waiting for the few last accessories to arrive, although next weekend, I will begin my build regardless. I jumped the gun like most of us do, I received an extra seed in one of my orders and decided already knowing better, to start it. I fooled myself into thinking, I will just use the sunlight in my house until I get my sh** together. Ended up buying a couple of cheap Wally World light bulbs to try to get me through until I get my tent set up. After germinating the seed and then placing in soil, October the 11th my plant broke ground and the attached picture was last night
and I am still almost a week out from getting my sh**t together. I need to stat the other 5, for my first attempt at indoor growing but, I am holding off for now and it’s driving me nuts. I will say, in my opinion, if you have a passion for growing weed, you are definitely at the right place. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge and a vast amount of experience on this forum and everyone I have encountered have been great. I will be set to watching and coming along for the ride, of course that is, if you don’t mind.
Welcome to the forum! Assuming your growing medium had no nutrients, the little round leaves would still take care of nutritional needs of plant in the beginning. Once those yellow and die off you would either need an amended soil or to provide nutrients yourself.
2 new seeds have germed and are in the peat pellets WITHOUT all the excess water. They are already growing above the surface. I also took a little from previous salsa gardening experience and employed a 1:60 hydrogen peroxide drizzle once the babies were seated. They do love that O!
The three in pots were also pushing themselves out of the dirt. Since I have new seeds sprouting, I decided to replant them deeper. Also mixed the remaining H2O2 solution into the nute solution and gave them a good shower to set the dirt around the now deeper root systems. Lost about 1/3 of the height but they are already looking better after 16 hours.
Brown and Green pot roots were ok but anemic looking. Red pot roots were all sorts of weird and twisty. glad I have new seeds coming. I suspect Green pot and Red pot are not going to make it.
Try to give them a little less water at a time. Keep the baby babies domed, but the larger seedlings should only be getting maybe a shot glass or so of water (water only, they don’t need fed, at least until they’ve consumed their cotyledons) at a time, and probably only once a day. Water in a circle around the plant, a few inches out from the stem. That will promote root growth, making them reach out to get the water. If they are always wet, they will rot.
I tried my best to get a clear closeup and noticed that the serrated tips are curling up. I remember seeing this from some other journal. Heat stress? Possibly. My log shows that the average temp is about 85 - 88 F. I have a fan on the plants. Since the other two kacked I turned off one of the lights after taking these pics. I’ll see what ambient is tomorrow.
And the newbies are strong! Definitely NOT overwatering them. Also the weak H2O2 seems to be really helping. I can tell that there is a rapidly growing root network under the surface.
Try to get it down, that’s why the leaves are curling, most likely. Also, don’t point the fan directly at them. Either bounce it off a wall, or face the fan away from them, so the air it’s drawing is pulled across them. Try to keep airflow moving in from the bottom of the space, out at the top. Point a fan at your lights to move the heat upward and away from them, and toward the exhaust.
