UGGH PLEASE HELP. CAN'T FIND ANSWER TO THIS ANYWHERE. ARE THESE ROOTS?

opiumfiend

opiumfiend

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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE DEAL WITH THIS IS?

I CAN ONLY ASSUME THEY ARE ROOTS. BUT IF SO, WHY?. THESE BABIES ARE ONLY 8 DAYS OLD SO I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT MY SMALL PLANTER BAGS WOULD BE TOOO SMALL YET. I SHOULD MENTION THAT I HAD A LOT OF ISSUES WITH GERMINATION. I GERMINATED IN A MIX OF JIFFIES AND ROCKWOOL. BUT I MADE LOTS OF COCK UPS LIKE PLANTING THEM UPSIDE DOWN ETC. MAYBE THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE WAY THE ROOTS ARE GROWING.

THE SOIL IS GENERIC SEED RAISING MIX. I JUST CHUCKED A SMALL LAYER OF COCO AND PERLITE ON THE TOP FEW CM TO TRY AND COVER THEM UP BECAUSE I JUST PURCHASED A BAG AS I PLAN ON USING THIS AS MY MEDIUM FOR THE REST OF THE GROW ONE I TRANSPLANT MY SEEDS.

IF SOMEONE COULD PLEASE OFFER SOME ADVICE I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANKS :d

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HERE'S A FAR AWAY PICTURE TO GIVE YOU A SLIGHT IDEA OF THE SIZE OF THE POTS WHICH THEY ARE IN

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opiumfiend

opiumfiend

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i had 6 in rockwool which once they germinated and i saw that they were upside down i took them out and put them straight into soil with the taproot facing down. some of the ones i planted in jiffies i also planted upside down but was not able to rearrange them as they were deep in the jiffy and couldn't find them.


i do worry because although i placed them upward when i replanted them, some of the tap roots where all sorts of funny shapes such as u shapes and such in an attempt to correct themselves. so maybe this is responsible for the roots growing in a funny angle even though i straightened the plants up.

maybe it's only the ones in the jiffies which are doing it. i don't think so though. but yea.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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opiumfiend said:
really? that would be kinda shit. it is bag soil from the store.
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It's just what happens mate. You can get weed seeds in the composting that your soil was charged with.

It could be cross contaminated with weed seeds due to storage location/transportation etc etc.



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opiumfiend

opiumfiend

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the soil has been used by other people including people on this site with great success. so maybe i just got a bung batch. or maybe the contamination came from something else.. the plants are looking kinda healthy and one of the plants which had this problem i transplanted into a coco perlite mix and it seems to have stemmed the problem over the last couple of days.

il just experiment and keep trying and see what happens. it's all experience under the belt. things either get better or fail and i learn something for next grow.
 
TwistItUp

TwistItUp

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ironic your user name is Opiumfeind, at first glance I thought that looks like opium that hasn't yet been culled down to single plants for spacing.
 
TwistItUp

TwistItUp

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Don't worry right away if it is. Some places its actually legal to grow opium. It only becomes illegal once the pods have been cut as far as I know.
 
TwistItUp

TwistItUp

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TwistItUp said:
ironic your user name is Opiumfeind, at first glance I thought that looks like opium that hasn't yet been culled down to single plants for spacing.
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Should use compressed peat pellets next time. Then cull down to singles, and plant them spaced how you like. It wont look as random.
 
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