Pls help sick seedling

Can anyone pls tell me what they think may be happening i initially stuck these seeds in a plastic cup until the next day cause i forgot i didnt have perlite but next day i got and trasplanted the seed (prob. Not the best idea) after 2 days 1 seed sprouted other took extra day and it looked sickly facing downward the first was very nice and strong looking i had a small heat issue one day but i kind of solved and out of nowhere they began to look like this slowly and havent continued growth...... 432 watt t5 with ac pouring in threw the top keeps it at 77-80 degrees....oooh and hello everyone!

Photo is kind of blurry, and can't see much detail on the leaves. The stem has a narrow, slightly different colored area in one photo that might indicate damping off, but it's really hard to tell. If so, not much can be done, they almost always die. Usually caused by excess water and low temps.

Damping Off

Can you take a better close up shot of the leaves from the top and side ?

sorry guys thought the pics were better hopefully these are ok...damping off? what is that and can i heal that?

You can't have air conditioner air directly on your plants.

Its not directly on it its flexible duct from vent moving into tent

Damping off is usually a fungal disease that mostly affects seedlings. Basically the stem rots after germination. It starts as a narrowing, discoloration, and stiffening of a small part of the stem. The rest of the plant barely grows and droops, looks very sad. Very little can be done to fix it, but you can prevent with a change in cultural practices.

This looks like it could be the case, but it's possible that it grew a little narrower naturally.

I see...it didnt start that crumpled it happened after a couple days...anything i can do?

No, not really. Prevention is pretty much it. There might be some copper based spray out there but if it's damping off you'll likely be popping new seeds. I lost two seedlings to this earlier this year. I was germinating in my basement and a few seed starters weren't on the heat mat. They were the ones affected.

I'll note that I found fungus gnat larvae in the mix I was using, on the plants that died. So starting in a sterile mix seems to be the best way to prevent it.

Do you think it stemmed from planting without perlite in small cup first? Or maybe napkin getminating?

Not necessarily the perlite issue, no, but it may have had too much water and not enough heat. Starting in a small container is a great way to prevent overwatering, so nothing wrong with that, provided it's got drainage holes. I like to poke a bunch of holes in the sides of starter cups to help the media dry out faster, it has seemed to help.

And I could be completely wrong, and it just grew out a little funky. Don't give up on them yet. Just be ready for the worst.

Cool thanks for the info appreciate it..i will keep trying to get them to go.. but i just started germing 2 new ones prepping for worst hehehe