Seedling stretch advice needed

Hi All,
I have some newly sprouted ladies who have superstretched, i have lowered lights so it shouldnt be doing much more but i now have 3 inch seedlings, one has almost broken and has been splinted.
I was going to repot and bury the stem but some sites are saying the buried stem wont root!
they will be going into 1 litre air pots,
suggestions needed!
thanks in advance and happy growing
GG

Heck yeah if you can repot go for it and bury them up to their leaves! otherwise just pile a mound of soil around them. You can always slap a little rooting gel on the lanky stem bit that you put in the soil but it really isn't necessary.

thanks, will chalk it down to web misinformation.
Thanks
GG

you need more light............... , just get a twist tie or something like that make a brace for the little guy
than add more light...... 4 , 26 watt cfl . psf works great . make sure the support is 3/4 the way up the stem .

You've already addressed your lighting heighth issue, now repot or mound the soil for support - and - get a fan in there to gently blow on them. It does wonders to strengthen the stems.
GWN

GreatwhiteNorth said:

You've already addressed your lighting heighth issue, now repot or mound the soil for support - and - get a fan in there to gently blow on them. It does wonders to strengthen the stems.
GWN

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Thanks, mounding will be problematical as i have only 1/2 to top of pot, as for repotting i was thinking of waiting as only a week old, what would their root structure be like now? also they are now being fanned for at least 12 hours a day
cheers
GG

You could take e5's advice and support them with a crutch of some kind. Are they in a little planter/starter cup? They're root structure probably isn't all that but if they're in small cups and you let the soil get good and dry they can easily be transplanted to a bigger container.

it puts the lotion on the skin

e5eopy said:

it puts the lotion on the skin

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Or it gets the hose again

Is it possible to bury the stem up to the leaves at any stage, so that roots will grow on the buried part?

I am asking because Ive re-potted my seedlings from jiffy pellets where they stretched 2 inches in the first 2 days. As I re-potted, I left maybe a little less than a 1cm stem stick out. Now I noticed they re still growing at almost the same rate. So I am planning to re pot them again and really bury that thing up to the first set of leaves........ cuz I have one seedling which is a week older, and Ive buried that one up to the leaves, and the stretching stopped!