Sprout support
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BuYInGEverYWorD
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looks good
Bain
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I'd be careful of those soil ph testers where you stick a rod into the soil. Many people have had issues where they don't read ph well at all.
I'd go with litmus paper and test the runoff at the bottom, and/or an aqarium ph test kit to ph the water you give them.
rastadoor
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Looks like rastas going to the fish shop.
frankthetank256
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Hey rastadoor! Ive just started for the first time also. Have you been using just water or have you been adding chemicals??? my are about 4 weeks old and they look about like yours.
rastadoor
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I let my water set out one or two days no chemicals.
FrostickZero
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I have 2 5gal bottols for water and I fill one once the other one is getting low
frankthetank256
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when will you start to use chemicals?
Runagi
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At 4 weeks of having sprouted your plants really should be alot bigger -- take a quick look at my grow journal (link is in my signature) and look at the size of mine at 2 weeks... Your plants should be very nicely filled out if they're 4 weeks old.
rastadoor
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Wow you are right my plants are small compared to yours!
i am at 2 weeks not 4
catmandoob
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so whats up with your plants rast...? how do they look almost a week later?
joebuck
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The seedling's roots will bust right through the peat pot if you keep 'em moist. I just planted a seedling whose root had made it out of the peat pot and was sticking out under it about 1/4 inch. (That was one of the seedlings I had in the tennis ball thing.)
Because of that, I've started putting all of my peat pot stuff in a tray that can retain water - so I water in the peat pot and put some water in the tray so the pots don't dry out. That's the crucial part - if the root is against it and it's working it's way through and the peat pot's dry (probably without you realizing it), I don't know what the root would do - keep starving for water? Loop around inside the peat pot? Grow slowly? I don't risk it - I know now that after 1 week of being a sprout in a peat pot they want to get OUT.
Because of that, I've started putting all of my peat pot stuff in a tray that can retain water - so I water in the peat pot and put some water in the tray so the pots don't dry out. That's the crucial part - if the root is against it and it's working it's way through and the peat pot's dry (probably without you realizing it), I don't know what the root would do - keep starving for water? Loop around inside the peat pot? Grow slowly? I don't risk it - I know now that after 1 week of being a sprout in a peat pot they want to get OUT.
joebuck
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Oh - by the way, the bonus about the peat pots is that it makes planting super easy. Managing the little seedling in the peat pot is much easier that fumbling around with getting a seedling out of a little pot into something else. There's less chance to break that important little root when you're using peat pots.
Proph
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best thing to start off with are seedlings in those little jiffy pot soil deals. they are great and very very easy to transplant to bigger pots. How many lights are you using now? How are they looking also? I wouldnt recommend using nutes yet either. Let them grow on their owns for the first few weeks.