First Grow, some questions

jsteezy1290

jsteezy1290

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first grow , i used the wet paper towel method on 10 femenized seeds, with a day and a half all seeds cracked with root coming out, i transferred them all into 1 gallon pots with fox farm soil, waterd the soil first then put the seeds about a quarter of a inch in and covered them up, put them under a 400 mh light for 18 hours about 24 inches away, 24 hours later i had one green coming up but non of the others so i moved the light to about 18 inches, how long does it take from the time i put them in the soil for the green to come up? next time i will use jiffy pellets for sure but for now i will work with this since its already done, please any information is greatly apprieciated
 
chronic Joe

chronic Joe

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It could take as long as a week to two possibly, dont let your soil get too dry when first germinating also dont water it too much either, hope this helps you.
 
BeefSupreme

BeefSupreme

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Next time start with smaller pots at first, the bigger ones hold water too well and will drown your plants. Its better to have small pots and water them every couple of days
 
majek

majek

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welcome to rollitup :)

it usually takes 12-48 hours for seeds to germinate, and about the same for them to sprout soil. jiffy pellets are overrated though, all your seeds will sprout just give them lots of water and light :)
 
turkish420

turkish420

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you need to put some sort of clear transparent dome over the new sprouts to act as a "mini-greenhouse" until they get about two three inches tall
 
jsteezy1290

jsteezy1290

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ok thanks , ill wait till the pots are light and not heavy from the water before i water again, turk i got a grow tent so its doing a pretty good job holding the heat and humidity in there , hopefully they will all be up and going by the end of the weekend
 
LUDACRIS

LUDACRIS

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jsteezy1290 said:
first grow , i used the wet paper towel method on 10 femenized seeds, with a day and a half all seeds cracked with root coming out, i transferred them all into 1 gallon pots with fox farm soil, waterd the soil first then put the seeds about a quarter of a inch in and covered them up, put them under a 400 mh light for 18 hours about 24 inches away, 24 hours later i had one green coming up but non of the others so i moved the light to about 18 inches, how long does it take from the time i put them in the soil for the green to come up? next time i will use jiffy pellets for sure but for now i will work with this since its already done, please any information is greatly apprieciated
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have a read at this thread for next time.
(good luck).
LUDA.
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/176359-starting-your-seeds.html
 
Melangwanja

Melangwanja

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Wait at least another 6 days. If they haven't popped up by then, dig 'em up carefully, and if they haven't shown any sign of growing, they're lemmings. Just throw them away.
 
Melangwanja

Melangwanja

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Indeed. Keep it in a nice a humide enviroment.

Make sure the soil doesn't get a chance to form a sort of "shell" when it starts to dry, or it'll be hard for your seed to grow out.
 
Brick Top

Brick Top

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BeefSupreme said:
Next time start with smaller pots at first, the bigger ones hold water too well and will drown your plants. Its better to have small pots and water them every couple of days
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That is not accurate information. I never grow in anything less than 5-gallons in size and normally grow in 7-gallon pots and I always put my popped beans right into whatever size pots I am uses for that particular grow. As long as someone uses soil and pots with adequate drainage the danger you claimed is nonexistent.
　
Regardless of the size of a pot the surface soil will lose moisture through evaporation and even though some moisture from below will wick up it cannot wick up any faster than evaporation takes place and it will actually wick up slower.

Even if the bottoms of your pots were sitting in an inch of water it would not make the surface soil wet enough to, as you called it, "drown your plants" and the roots of a seedling would not be deep enough to be in over saturated soil that could cause root rot.
　
If anything the larger pots and any additional moisture they may hold is beneficial because as water evaporates moisture from below can in time replace it so it for some reason you are unable or just forget to check your babies soon enough one day or not at all one day there is less of a likelihood that they will dry out and die. You do not have that safety net using cups or small pots or small containers of some sort or another.
　
Another benefit is you never have to repot and that means less handling of your plants which eliminates much of the chance of damaging your plants.

One more benefit is as soon as a plant’s roots begin to circle a pot the plant is then to some degree stressed and the worse the circling gets them more the stress is increased.

If someone starts their plants in cups or small pots/containers and they do not repot soon enough their plants will be stressed and that can happen each time a plant reaches a point where it needs to be repotted.

Starting right out in large pots eliminates that possibility, that is unless what someone picks/considers as a large pots really aren't really large pots and their plants still end up with circling roots and eventually a root-bound condition.
 
jsteezy1290

jsteezy1290

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that is a good guide as the other 30 i have read but i still like to post questions about my current situations, some of these guides dont answer the questions i would like answered. i just want to make sure im not waisting my time doing this, im good at alot of things but i want to be great at this lol
 
jsteezy1290

jsteezy1290

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there little nap woke up all of them , i got green on 9 and the last one is trying but will most likely be the runt of them all, im thinking about getting another grow tent and i want to keep to mothers in there and clones, what kind of lights can i use just to keep them in the veggie state, what kind of floros and how many will it take
 
jsteezy1290

jsteezy1290

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im talking about using a cheaper lower voltage just for clones and like two mothers, what flourcents work best?
 
chronic Joe

chronic Joe

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you could get by with 2 two light shop lights with cool white floro's 4' too, cost 40-60 but should be enough if not up it one more when you need it.
 
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