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That looks awesome - nice and healthy. Thanks for those pics! I'll have something to look back on in a few weeks once I've veged for that long.

Day 3:

My little seedling hasn't done much of anything today... or so I thought! The fan leaves got ever so larger, but it's very minimal, maybe 1 mm. So, that's a bit of a bummer.

Here comes my newbie mistake, though! The seedling was only about 1 inch tall, and the fan leaves are still pretty small, so I assumed there wouldn't be much root growth. WRONG! I lifted the rockwool cube out of my soil to set it in some water, for a last watering before leaving it be, but I saw a root! There was a small, 90% opaque root that protruded about 3/4 inch from the bottom of the rockwool. I set the cube back down gently, and got scared, haha...

So, I'll ask a question here, and I hope somebody answers it: Does this amount of root grow mean that I should water more? Is my tap root really stretching to find that water? Or is that amount of root growth normal? Take a look at my seedling, and should my root be long enough to protrude 3/4 inch out of the bottom of the rockwool?

Thanks guys.

Update: Before going to bed tonight, I added 1 oz of ph-ed water to the rockwool, applied gently from the top. I hope this was what Hazel was looking for

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yeah thats normal for the root to come out the bottom of the rockwool

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Thanks for the reassurance, man. Although, things seem to be worsening - check it out.

Day 4:

I guess things have to get worse before they get better, huh... After getting home from work today, I see that one of the cotyledon's on Hazel is turning a yellowy-brown colour. It's the smaller of the two cotyledons (yes, they are quite different sizes too, haha... Check out the pics).

Possible things that could have made it happen:

1. The temperature may have dipped a bit last night, but by no more than like low 60's.
2. If you read my Day 3 post, you'll see what I did by pulling out the rockwool when the root was already out of the bottom.
3. I still have no idea how much to water this girl. I gave her 1oz of water, gently on the rockwool last night. Before that, it was only light spraying and occasional dripping water around. The soil around it is still fairly moist though.


Anyways, at this point, I'm more just hoping that she pulls through and starts to demonstrate growth. We'll see what tomorrow brings :S

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Day X:

Hazel is dead. I fucked up. Not sure how or why, but it had slow growth, then a yellowing baby leaf, then the plant bent over, ultimately just lying back on the rockwool (fell over completely), with everything deformed.

I'm gonna germ and sprout once more and update this journal maybe only once in the first week.

I'll change a few things this time:

1. I'm not using rockwool, but that shouldn't make a big difference.
2. I'm only going to use 1 CFL for the first week, it being a 42 W 6500K light.
3.I'm going to rasie that CFL about 10 inches from the top of the soil for now. I hope is far enough away to not dry anything else.
4. I'm going to give the soil a thorough wetting before putting the seed in. This will be my only watering for 3-5 days after sprouting I think.
5. I'm going to monitor the pH better. Before, I adjusted my water's pH, but I didn't 48 hours later, and using the same water, the pH was A LOT higher (7.6 +). I guess even more chlorine / etc must have evaporated off.


Anyways. Feel free to post comments here about what I should do different this time - I'd love it.

If I don't get any responses, expect this thread to resume in no more than 1 week.

-Chipp

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r u sure the light too far? It probably was strecthing 4 light.My baby is looking good.I just transplanted her into a 3 gallon bag.

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Hey, I'm fairly sure I just didn't water properly, and my water had a messed up pH. I've got some seeds germing now, and I will do it right this time... Hahah it's a piss off, but I guess I learned my lesson.

About the light... Right now it's like 8 inches away, but within like 2 days of it being sprouted, I'll bring it in to like 2 inches, presuming my fan keeps the temps stable in that area

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Let the thread resume!

Using two new seeds (both SLH), I'm on:

(New) Day 2:

I planted two new seeds, and on Day 2, they are both going well (I think)!

I didn't use rockwool this time, and I monitored my pH better when I gave it the initial watering...

Temp is stable at 70 deg F, there is a gentle fan blowing just to move air (not blowing at the plants, just nearby), and the RH is about 70% right now.


Attached: two pics for two plants.
Until tomorrow!

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Sorry for your loss. When I read that you had problems watering in RW, I thought to myself - "Shit, they're going in dirt anyway and that's really hard to fuck up!", but I see you'd figured that out already! Keep it up. I can't wait to see these flower.

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Day 3:

Alright, so after seeing the tap root come out of the one in the larger, more shallow pot, I transplanted it to the big 5 gallon. It looks like overkill, but I guess it had to be done. The plants are getting bigger and better, but I'll be relieved once 24 hours passes and the transplanted girl is showing signs of strength.

I don't really have any good pics for today - they came out blurry. Stay tuned for tomorrow, and let's hope the transplanted girl pulls through!

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Day 4:

I think the transplant was a success with Hazel. She demonstrated some growth since the transplant, so that's what I'm gauging it off.

The other plant (Eve - yes I ripped the name off some other guy's grow journal - credit to him, haha), seems to need a transplant too. I can't see her root coming out the bottom, but her growth has slowed a bit, and her leaves are EVER so droopy... Check out some pics.

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