New grower - how does this look?

They are autos. Prob should have mentioned that.
Mephisto Hubbabubbahaze auto

When you say soak medium how much water should I give it?

Postman puff said:

When you say soak medium how much water should I give it?

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Wet it
Make sure it has plenty of drainage
Once you add seed you probably won’t need anything for up to two weeks
It will adapt to the medium if it isn’t constantly changing

It is a plant. Anything you would do to start a vegetable seed you can do for weed seeds. Is this your first plant ever grown from seed? If so, you can always buy a pack of lettuce seeds and practice with those first. Environment control and basic watering will be the same for weed.

BlandMeow said:

It is a plant. Anything you would do to start a vegetable seed you can do for weed seeds. Is this your first plant ever grown from seed? If so, you can always buy a pack of lettuce seeds and practice with those first. Environment control and basic watering will be the same for weed.

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It is however if I’m being honest with myself I think I would lose enthusiasm quite quickly towards anything other than the weed seeds. I suppose I accept I am going to make mistakes and that at £13 a seed they will be costly ones but that’s ok.

Yeah the advice about transplanting up as your plant grows is not the way for Autos. You're supposed to start in the container you want to finish in. I would suggest the three or five gallon pot. Like stated above. I've never grown Autos but lots of people on here do

green217 said:

Yeah the advice about transplanting up as your plant grows is not the way for Autos. You're supposed to start in the container you want to finish in. I would suggest the three or five gallon pot. Like stated above. I've never grown Autos but lots of people on here do

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That’s the way I went it’s a 12 ltr cloth pot so just over 2 gallon.

I suppose the question I should be asking is. How much water should I typically use to soak the initial soil in a 12 ltr cloth pot before planting seed?

Postman puff said:

I suppose the question I should be asking is. How much water should I typically use to soak the initial soil in a 12 ltr cloth pot before planting seed?

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There is no set volume really. Each bag of soil could be a different moisture content making that set volume too little or too much.

Add a small amount at a time, mixing with your hands in a separate bucket. Take a handful and try to make a ball by squeezing the clump. If water drips out of your hand, it's too wet. If you open your hand and it easily crumbles apart, it is too dry. You want a ball of soil to hold shape on its own.

Postman puff said:

That’s the way I went it’s a 12 ltr cloth pot so just over 2 gallon.

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That advice is if you don't know how to transplant properly and is coming from someone who never grew autos

Just sayin
You have decided wrong but good luck anyway

I’m gonna start a fresh thread with more detail on what I’ve done and ask again what I should be doing. Thanks for all of your help so far hopefully learn from my mistakes