I will try to put mistakes in Red day forward...
July 7th (day 4)
Now maybe that light so close was too intense i burnt up one of my kids. I lowered it to about 10" from the cfls. Growth was ok but still no tap roots. I water the rockwool with ph balanced (5.
distilled water nealy soaking it. I spayed them with distilled water about every 4 hours.
temp around 74
humidity around 40 (probably too low)
July 8th (Day 5)
So i wake up to find the 8 remaining seedlings droopy; so keeping up with the ass wipe moves;
i water them again with the ph balanced distilled water. Today I spray them like every 4 hours agains with staight distilled water. Growth was minimal but they aren't streaching! lol....
Temp around 72
Humidity fluctuated between 30-50 (still lowwwww)
July 9th and 10th (Days 6-7)
Basically just watered them every 8 hours.
Wake up to find them droopy both days. I research and realized they are way to wet...(clones are so much easier). Concerned i havent seen a root yet; I kind of rip open the rock wool cubes and see very little tap root growth. But i realize i was making the
biggest Noob mistake over watering and raise them again to 6" of the light. I was ready to give up at this point. Ended up leaving them alone all day pretty much admitting defeat.
July 11 (Day )
Wake up and check the plants expecting I would just start over with the Apollo 11 seeds today and pitch these. But i found a pleasant surprise. I find keeping my dumb self out of the plants lives actually caused them to start growing. All 8 were still alive and the rockwool was bone dry. I lift them up and see tap roots about 1/10-1/2" out of the bottom of the cubes!!
So i spray the bottom of the ph balanced rockwool with distilled water and rush around like a madman trying to set-up the net-pots. I have 3.5 inch netpots and hydroton rock things. I rinse the rocks and let them soak in ph balanced distilled water for like an hour. Next i placed 1" of hydoton on the bottom of netpot and placed the rockwool on top of it and filled the sides in with hydoton.
I water the plants again from the top soaking them with ph distilled water( I don't learn).
I place them in the res. The res at this time is filled with tap water that has been out for two days. No nutes. The water level is like 4" below the bottom of the netpot. I read the water should just splash the hydroton. My airpump being 320 GPH did it from 4" away so thats why i had it at that level.
An hour later, I am worried i
over watered the rockwool so I place them on top of the res to let them get some air and dry out for 6 hours.
I finally bring out the camera again with my renewed hope....
Temp around 75
Humidity fluctuated between 30-50 (still lowwwww)
Res temp 68
PPM (.5) 200 no nutes just tap water
PH kept going from 5.8 up to 6.3 every 6 hours. I took it back down throughout the day.