Deadmagician
Well-Known Member
First time grower.
Germinated 3 Gorilla glue auto seeds, planted in 5 gallon, fabric pots (yeah I put them in their final pots, I know opinion is mixed about doing that as a noob)
with coco about 10% perlite 5% vermiculite and some mycorrhizae mixed in (as per packet) around the site I planted my seeding.
Today is day 7. 1x1x2m grow space with 1 x 300w LED at about 60cm dimmed to 80%. They’ve had good air flow 2x small fans (not directly on seedlings)
Temperatures have been unusually high for the time of year though 24-28c I have had a humidifier running intermittently, hard to regulate as it does have settings but it’s pretty much either on or off, so I check that regularly, essentially letting the humidity build up 80% and then dissipate to ambient around 60% don’t know if that’s a good thing to do if I can’t keep it consistent?
After about 2 days they had sprouted the cotyledons and then the initial two leaves pretty quickly and Looked very heathy & green. Last couple of days there’s been no growth though.
Leaves are a little pale slightly curled at the edges.
Stems are very purple.
I was initially just using pH’d water to about 6.3.
However, I read that this was too high for coco medium and adjusted to 6.0 then 5.7 (which they had at their last watering) with a view to bringing it down to 5.5, but not all at once.
Also added some root stimulant nutes to the water as per manufactures guide for seedlings.
So my seedlings are in a 5 gallon fabric pot and I’ve been watering with around 200-300ml of water per plant in a two inch circle around the seedling (not the whole pot, outer is dry)
I have read some instructions online which say even at these small amounts of water I should get run off in a big pot, but I get no run off from that small volume of watering. I had heard even seedling watering at about a cupful you should see some run off, I don’t.
I don’t want to give them too much water because I think I perhaps have given them too much already as I tend to water each day and although the first quarter inch is dry ish, it’s not entirely dry so perhaps I should water less frequently and wait a couple of days for it to dry out?
Also my lights have been on 24hours and today I decided to switch to 18/6 which was always my intention once the seedlings got going. Is giving them their first but if dark and potentially lower temp gonna help?
Are all these changes at once not doing my seedlings any good?
Is the light I’m giving them sufficient/too much?
Am I overthinking/worrying unnecessarily/being impatient and they are just concentrating on root growth at the minute?
Basically
“HELP!!!!!”
Thanks in advance. (I will post a picture later on)
(I’ve set up a ghetto blaster with some Bob Marley on for my girls to listen to while I’m at work, perhaps that will help?)
Germinated 3 Gorilla glue auto seeds, planted in 5 gallon, fabric pots (yeah I put them in their final pots, I know opinion is mixed about doing that as a noob)
with coco about 10% perlite 5% vermiculite and some mycorrhizae mixed in (as per packet) around the site I planted my seeding.
Today is day 7. 1x1x2m grow space with 1 x 300w LED at about 60cm dimmed to 80%. They’ve had good air flow 2x small fans (not directly on seedlings)
Temperatures have been unusually high for the time of year though 24-28c I have had a humidifier running intermittently, hard to regulate as it does have settings but it’s pretty much either on or off, so I check that regularly, essentially letting the humidity build up 80% and then dissipate to ambient around 60% don’t know if that’s a good thing to do if I can’t keep it consistent?
After about 2 days they had sprouted the cotyledons and then the initial two leaves pretty quickly and Looked very heathy & green. Last couple of days there’s been no growth though.
Leaves are a little pale slightly curled at the edges.
Stems are very purple.
I was initially just using pH’d water to about 6.3.
However, I read that this was too high for coco medium and adjusted to 6.0 then 5.7 (which they had at their last watering) with a view to bringing it down to 5.5, but not all at once.
Also added some root stimulant nutes to the water as per manufactures guide for seedlings.
So my seedlings are in a 5 gallon fabric pot and I’ve been watering with around 200-300ml of water per plant in a two inch circle around the seedling (not the whole pot, outer is dry)
I have read some instructions online which say even at these small amounts of water I should get run off in a big pot, but I get no run off from that small volume of watering. I had heard even seedling watering at about a cupful you should see some run off, I don’t.
I don’t want to give them too much water because I think I perhaps have given them too much already as I tend to water each day and although the first quarter inch is dry ish, it’s not entirely dry so perhaps I should water less frequently and wait a couple of days for it to dry out?
Also my lights have been on 24hours and today I decided to switch to 18/6 which was always my intention once the seedlings got going. Is giving them their first but if dark and potentially lower temp gonna help?
Are all these changes at once not doing my seedlings any good?
Is the light I’m giving them sufficient/too much?
Am I overthinking/worrying unnecessarily/being impatient and they are just concentrating on root growth at the minute?
Basically
“HELP!!!!!”
Thanks in advance. (I will post a picture later on)
(I’ve set up a ghetto blaster with some Bob Marley on for my girls to listen to while I’m at work, perhaps that will help?)
