Originally Posted by trunks

you can turn your sprouts so the roots are facing down! give it a little more time for the other seeds start sprouting! and just let them grow they will straighten out just keep your lights as close as you can to them

Originally Posted by trunks

you can keep your lights on your set up 18/6 it wont hurt your newbies just keep your lights as close as posable to your plants so they wont stretch! so yes you can turn your lights on now

Originally Posted by no6969el

Hello, thanks to Roseman and EVERYONE else I went with the bubbleponics... ive read/printed/studied/slept with all the instructions I could find on the threads that have been made and I can say im pretty damn prepared and knowledge on this ALOT more than 1 month ago..

MY question is.. i have just placed the seeds in the rock wool cubes and turned the system on a few days ago. I see in the middle two the sprouts have sprouted upside down.. and the the other four.. seem to not have sprouted yet.. (or they are sprouting the proper way and are taking longer to become visible)

I've started 6 seeds at the same time, and they took 4 to 10 days to be seen, til I learned how important placement of the seed is. And I also learend to start a couple of extra seed in a wet papertowel for the duds taht do not sprout.

anyways I just wanted to know if I should take a look with the tweezers or not .. It is OK to do it, but not asy to do, and you will kick your own butt if you damage one.

if there are any tips on getting them all straight..

or to sprout at the same time.. Be patient,and always start two extra seeds, is what I do.

should I flip the confused sprouts so its facing the other way,

it is going to correct itself, and you'll just confuse it. It knows which way is up.

does the covers on the sprouts (made by circular cardboard cuttouts) have to have holes? In the center for the plant to grow out of.

Are those holes how the sprout knows to grow root down and seed up?

No, they just follow gravity, and the LIGHT, root DOWN away from LIGHT, sprout UP toward LIGHT.

If pictures are needed... would the flash mess up the sprouting process.

Originally Posted by no6969el

Ok Thank you trunks... i have the time set to that.. but now as of this mornign a new issue arises.

ROSEMAN!!!!!!! I woke up this morning and had the lights on them from about 4am till 1130am (they are still on..but this is just when i saw it.) And the rockwools where flooding.. and the water was hot.. well not hot like hot to touch.. but say very warm.... i dont know what to do.. why would it get so hot? am I goign to need a water cooler or just keep the room that its in lower temp with a fan??