1 1/2 week old seedling drooping badly - help please! - very first grow

lordaddict

lordaddict

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My Trainwreck seedling starte drooping and yellowing about 3-4 days ago. Friend suggested it was from overwatering. I checked the soil and it seemed to be pretty wet, not dripping, but pretty well watered. I replanted all of my babes as they were all pretty over watered last night with fresh soil. My Blue Thai # 2 had started to droop but appears to have recovered overnight after the replant. I got the tops of the fresh soil pretty wet with a very light mix of superthrive and ph 6.1 water, but did not drench the entire plant as I do not want to run into an overwatering issue again.

I am no longer misting the plant as of 4 days ago as well as I've read numerous bad things regarding it at this stage in the plants life.
All the rest of my plants appear to be doing just fine, except my Trainwreck.
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Soil - Roots Organic
ph - Started @ 5.5 have gradually increased and am at 6.1 now
pots - Dixie cups until rootbound then will transplant into 7g smart pots
lights - had them under the 600w hps about 3-4 ft above but felt like it was way too much - have switched to 2x 60w cfl sitting about 2 inches from the 6 plants
vent - plenty of ventilation with 1 fan circulating air on inside
grow room - 4.5 x 4.5 x 6.5 grow tent
temp - 76.3
humidity - 58%

*start edit* - I've had the plants in little homemade coke bottle humidity domes for about 3-4 days now and have been lifting them up 2-3 times a day to let new o2 in. i decided to take them off today and put the plants 1-2 inches from the 60w cfls for a little bit
*end edit*

sorry if I've excluded anything as this is my first post on rollitup and this is my very first grow! any feedback will greatly be appreciated!

thanks in advance and look forward to many more future posts
 
sourdiesel404

sourdiesel404

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your plant is way too young to be giving it superthrive i think and your humidity should be 60-65% for best results in veg when your humidity gets real low the plant loses alot of water from transpiration but it def looks like overwatering to me. seedlings need a constant supply of water but not a abundant supply should water as its dry a inch an a half down. possible light stress also 600w way too much for a seedling
 
jartlow

jartlow

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lordaddict said:
My Trainwreck seedling starte drooping and yellowing about 3-4 days ago. Friend suggested it was from overwatering. I checked the soil and it seemed to be pretty wet, not dripping, but pretty well watered. I replanted all of my babes as they were all pretty over watered last night with fresh soil. My Blue Thai # 2 had started to droop but appears to have recovered overnight after the replant. I got the tops of the fresh soil pretty wet with a very light mix of superthrive and ph 6.1 water, but did not drench the entire plant as I do not want to run into an overwatering issue again.

I am no longer misting the plant as of 4 days ago as well as I've read numerous bad things regarding it at this stage in the plants life.
All the rest of my plants appear to be doing just fine, except my Trainwreck.
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Soil - Roots Organic
ph - Started @ 5.5 have gradually increased and am at 6.1 now
pots - Dixie cups until rootbound then will transplant into 7g smart pots
lights - had them under the 600w hps about 3-4 ft above but felt like it was way too much - have switched to 2x 60w cfl sitting about 2 inches from the 6 plants
vent - plenty of ventilation with 1 fan circulating air on inside
grow room - 4.5 x 4.5 x 6.5 grow tent
temp - 76.3
humidity - 58%

*start edit* - I've had the plants in little homemade coke bottle humidity domes for about 3-4 days now and have been lifting them up 2-3 times a day to let new o2 in. i decided to take them off today and put the plants 1-2 inches from the 60w cfls for a little bit
*end edit*

sorry if I've excluded anything as this is my first post on rollitup and this is my very first grow! any feedback will greatly be appreciated!

thanks in advance and look forward to many more future posts
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Man I water maybe once a week on seedlings.. I try to let them go up to two weeks. I also don't bother with the dome. I definitely wouldn't be giving any nutes. You're probably over watering.

Also to transfer from Dixie cups to 7g pots kind of defeats the purpose of transplanting. I'd build up to the 7g

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lordaddict

lordaddict

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Thanks for the replies guys. Going to try sticking it in the sun tomorrow as today was a bit chilly. And yes, I learned my lesson really quick about overwatering!
 
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