New to hydroponics

Hippieryan said:

Nor a aero cloner

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Rooters work. Just pay a lot of attention to them and dont over soak them. If you use a dome (you should imo), make sure no condensation drips on to one you have something in. Take one and soak it in water. Squeeze it out as hard as you can. This is right about how wet you want it to stay. When you put it in the hydroton keep it at the top and youll want to make sure the bottom of your netpot stays damp. Youll want to play with your airstones and water level to make sure the bottom gets splashed on, but its not going to suck up into your rooter and soak it. You want a thin, nearly dry layer of hydroton right below the rooter. You will want to make sure to keep the rooter moist until you can see roots near the bottom of the pot while also making sure it doesnt soak up too much water from the hydroton. I just found all of this to be huge pain in the ass and highly encourage you to invest in the stuff I talked about for the future if you plan to stick with dwc. Its much easier, requires much less attention, and cut considerable time out of my seedling stage and their transition into the veg system.

Biddy413 said:

Couple of the worse looking ones and then one that looks like it's doing good.

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Sorry this went sideways.
Seems like a considerable change in 24 hrs from the first pics?
We need all the info of what you have going on. The more you can add the better.
Tap or RO? PPM of plain water. Everything you are adding to it and how much. PH and water temp.

Day 6 after transplant looking like there are coming back to life.

I'm using RO water, ph is 6.2, water temp 71, ec at .2 but I think I might jump up a little in a day or so, using UC roots, coco call, veg A and veg B, current culture solutions

Airwalker16 said:

Was asking you if these are Jiffy Pucks your talking bout?

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that's the name that eluded me. yes, they suck!

Day 7 after transplant , any help they dont look 100% healthy

Does this look like nutrient deficiencies?

they are perking up nicely. what do the roots look like? if they are ok, start think about slowly raising your EC/ppm up

how long should i wait to top them since they just went through a week of recovery from transplant

Biddy413 said:

how long should i wait to top them since they just went through a week of recovery from transplant

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at least a week. maybe more. and here's where you are going ot have some issues: one or more plant looks good (leaves praying to the light) while others don't look good. the praying ones need more food while the others need more time.

i'd maybe think about taking the slow ones out and put them in standalone buckets until they catch up and them put them back in the system

make sense?

rkymtnman said:

at least a week. maybe more. and here's where you are going ot have some issues: one or more plant looks good (leaves praying to the light) while others don't look good. the praying ones need more food while the others need more time.

i'd maybe think about taking the slow ones out and put them in standalone buckets until they catch up and them put them back in the system

make sense?

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yea some are for sure better looking than others

Roots are making there way down

they are recovering. resist the urge to hit them hard with nutes. that isnt' much root mass to handle strong nutes yet.

Girls are looking good!!

Day 10 after transplant looking good!!

Girls are looking good!

That's a major improvement since your last post.
Pleased for ya.
Well done!
WillieP

Yes I'm very happy things turned around for the good

It takes about a week for the plants to adjust to the new environment as long as your ph and Ec is good and they're getting enough oxygen to the root zone you should be ok.