My seedlings aren't growing properly. Need help.

**BAAWSE** · 12-02-2012, 10:13 AM

I'm growing 2 different autos: dutch passion think different and freedom of seed jack auto.

this is my first grow.

i have no idea what's going on, but this is obviously not right. i germinated 8 seed but ended up throwing 4 away because they were even worse than what i got now. i put the seeds in ph'd rockwool cubes; most sprouted beautifully.

first mistake: on the package for the rockwool, it says to soak the cube in 5.5 pH water and drop the seed in the hole. fine. now, the majority sprouted fine, but 3 didn't break the surface. They had roots and the little early leaf, but they were stuck in the hole. I saw this, but the package just said they'd sprout fine, so I waited. They never came out.

second mistake: i didn't realize how much my system dried out the rockwool, and not knowing that i was even supposed to re wet the rockwool let alone do it so quick, my sprouts were left in dry rockwool for probably 5 days.

third mistake: i didn't realize that i would have to have the light on top of my dome, so during this 5 day drought, the light was like 25 inches off my plants. I'm using a 8u 200w cool white cfl. I lowered the light, but I had the dome hood off, as I had seen on a youtube video. I left, came back, and all my plants were crippled--most had burn marks on them. I put the dome back on and a few hours later they were standing again, but still burned.

my plants didn't grow from day 1 of sprout to about day 6 or 7--when i gave them water and moved the light.

today is day 10 from sprout and this is all i have to show for it:
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So my question is, should i scrap them and start over? I'm pretty bummed

**technical dan** · 12-02-2012, 10:36 AM

might as well try and keep those alive. If they die later so be it but it would give you some practice for the next set of plants. Read some of the grow guides/ seedling guides around and figure out good practices a step or two before you actually need to do them.

**trpride** · 12-02-2012, 10:45 AM

a lot of growers face problems wen dey use hydro mediums for the first time, it's said u shud start feeding them very low concentrations of NPK/Seaweed Extract as soon as they pop out because der aint no nutes in rockwool this was the fault in my first hydro grow so i had to shift to soil.

I'll return to hydro tho as i've seen ppl get huge ass results

My advice : Dont scrap them yet try feeding low ppm nutes wait 4 a few days if they start to show even a li'l progress of which der is a great chance then ur gud to go + i'd recommend if u have a few more seeds with u try growing them in soil side by side with these.

Checkout my grow in soil its not a big op but i think my girl is doing pretty good for a month old plant

**SOMEBEECH** · 12-02-2012, 11:01 AM

Welcome to RIU,heres a link i think you need to read.
Newbie Central
http://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/
Beech

**irie230** · 12-02-2012, 11:04 AM

I am doing my first grow and had suspended animation plants for a month. I ended up switching to HPS and it fixed it for me. Fox Grow and Bloom really helped alot. Caveat- I went with soil due to simplicity.

Good luck, Post updates and Keep Growing.

**BAAWSE** · 12-02-2012, 11:28 AM

ok guys will soilder on with my little runts and read up some more. will post some updates too. thanks.

and i won't lie to you, i tore open one of the rockwools. it had a bright white root in it, twisting in 3 different directions, and was about 4 millimeters from poking out the bottom corner of the cube.

i'll also do a soil.

thanks again.