New grower here. Started this seedling last week and the tenperature has been just a little too high lately in my grow tent. I ordered a mini AC to compensate and itll be here somw time today, but in the mean time, last night the 2 little leaves started to brown and i watered it and added a plastic cup sprayed with water on top to add humidity, per someones suggestion on one of these forums. This morning i checked on it and the leaves are now floppy. Is this saveable? Should i cut off the floppy part? Raise the light? Dim the light? I think i may have also potted it in a pot thats too big. Its currently in a 6" pot, but someone suggested a solo cup instead. Should i leave it or move it to a plastic cup?
Seedlings only need a couple ml of water today. What you are experiencing is called damping off (root rot.) If you are using a dome, then no watering of the soil is necessary. The seedling can get of of the water it needs from the humid air.
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Drop another seed friend, see the change in diameter of that stem at the 180deg bend, in all honestly there’s about a 10% chance it wont progress and die off. Keep hope, but accept reality and drop another bean, Damping off is right on target. 
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@HadenJP I tend to agree with both previous posters. You could attempt to straighten the stalk and prop it up but it’s current state suggests the effort may be futile. If you have more seeds available it may just be worthwhile to chalk this up to the cost of learning and move forward stronger for the experience. Just an opinion friend. Good luck moving forward!! 
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You definitely don’t want to cut any of it! Your soil is way to wet! Only thing you can try is to wait several days and see if it will come back! As stated above try to prop it up with something.
I and am germinating a new seed. So i shouldnt water the soil if i have a dome next time?
@HadenJP some would say water it now before the seedling hits it. Then just mist the inside of the cup thereafter and let the seedling grab moisture from within the domed environment. When you drop your seedling in the hole you make place the tail up so it leaves the seed helmet behind. It’ll twist back down on its own as it grows.
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Take 10ml medicine cup, the kind that come with children’s Robitussin or Tylenol, add 5ml of distilled water. Spray a clear Solo cup once or twice with distilled water. Bury your seed in fresh soil, dump the 5ml on it, put the cup on top and leave it.
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I prepare the solo cup with the soil at the same time I am germing. Preparation involves simply placing the soil in the cup and watering the soil, cover and set to the side. Once my seed has a tail, usually 24 hours is all it takes, I then plant the seed with the tail down. Put it in the dome with 12 hours of light for a week then slowly start increasing the light and hardening the seedling by opening the vents on the dome. @Midwestguy nailed it and I see damping all too often on this forum due to overwatering in the early stages. Remember seedlings do not have a root system yet so ask yourself…What am I watering? If you want to try to keep her, Prop her up, do not water her, Humidity at 70-80% in a dome environment even if it is ziploc cover, temps about 80º F and if she starts to stand up, I would personally transplant her to get her out of the soaked soil. Just do not expose what is under the dirt. Spoon it out carefully into another pot with the correct amount of moistness in the soil. That’s my 2 cents but with inflation, I guess it would only be worth .03279 cents on the dollar.
Good luck and keep growing!!
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Tomorrow will be one week of my new seedling growing. You meantioned increasing the light and vents? Does that mean I should poke holes in the dome as i increase the light duration?
Or you can remove it for an hour or so each day. The point is to harden them so when you make the change to a full light cycle, (Tron) haha!! and they are no longer in the dome, they won’t stress out too much. How is she looking today?
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She looks totally saveable. Mist the top dirt with a few squirts of distilled or ph balanced water. I would keep the light at about 12" to minimize additional stretching. When she rebounds and you transplant, bury that stem for stability.
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Ah that may be it, i had the light about 2-3 feet high. Just misted her and lowered the light. Thank you for your advice!
I have seen the light chart on here for the different stages of growth. That will really help if you find it. I think it is in the lighting forum. It has heights at seedling, veg and bud and the power based on those heights. Keep us posted. I will take a pic tonight of my baby clone from the mama plant. She is in the super sprouter (name brand) and I will measure the distance. I bet I am at 8-10" but the dome is made for germing, seedlings and clones. Inexpensive purchase that will take all of the guesswork out of caring for newbies. Here is a link if interested
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Sprouter-Premium-Propagation-Light/dp/B01ISSZZLO
So since ive started to make holes in my dome, the water has been evaporating and I’m afraid of overwatering again and now im struggling to keep this one watered with the holes in the dome. Leaf tips are browning. I’m also struggling to keep the heat down. The mini AC i got isnt good enough and keeps it around 80, sometimes getting up to 85. I’m really struggling and frustrated because real AC units are very expensive and I’m trying to grow this as a spend money to save money on future weed purchases but all its been is spend and fuck up. This plant is about 2.5 weeks now and I’m not sure if its even growing enough or not enough because idk where its suppose to he at 2.5 weeks.
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@HadenJP Hello again! I know your frustrations. With the heat and costs of an AC my thoughts go to venting. Do you have an in-line fan pulling air out of your tent? Those will reduce the temps if you have it hung up in the ceiling area with a little opening at the bottom of your tent to let fresh air get pulled in. Some lights also have ballasts that can be placed outside of your tent to help reduce temps.
I prefer the idea of slowly hardening your seedling to the rooms environment with a few hours domeless as opposed to the dome with holes in it. You can’t keep your humidity level up if the air isn’t trapped. The light could also probably still come a little closer as well. You could add a small amount of soil to the cup to straighten her out a bit, she’ll root on the newly buried neck area so no worries there ok.
You can do this. The upfront costs will disappear on the backend and you’ll have such an amazing feeling of accomplishment when you can enjoy your own grow. Plus your friends will love it when you shower them with goodie bags lol!!! Don’t give up!! 
I do have an air filter with a fan pulling air out the top of my tent. I started doing what you said with the done and it started to do well but then out of the blue just started doing really poorly and i just cant fucking do this right i just keep failing i don’t understand what’s wrong with me weed is suppose to be easy to grow
@HadenJP she looks really dried out. When’s the last time you gave her a real drink?
Ive been occasionally spraying her but idk how much to water. Idk how much her roots have sprouted so idk if she needs watered soil and I’m afraid of overwatering again and everyone and their mother has different growing advice so i havw no clue what I’m suppose to actually be doing
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