Hi

I have just got 3 of my seedlings sprouting upwards out of the rockwool plug, one grew much faster than the others and is about 2 inches tall now, but when I looked this morning it seems to have bent over under its own weight - it seems to look healthy in all other respects other than it wont stand straight up. For now I have pushed a piece of copper wire into the rockwool plug and wrapped it around it to make it stand straight (ish).

Is this a problem, why wont it stan up by itself? Also some of the other stmes are purple (ish) is this anything to worry about.

Oh and one more thing, the tap root has come through the bottom of the rockwool plug in all 3 by about an 1/8 inch is it now time to put the rockwool plug into the rockwool cube or should I wait until roots come through the sides of the plug.

Any help absolutely appreciated, I don't want my babies to die so young

alot of users/ growers experence this. your plant is streching for the light. get the lights closer to minimize the stretch. and to help support your lanky plant slit a straw and wrop it around the stem and place down into the dirt. this can sta till your plant can hold itself up again

put them in cubes now. get a fan on them now.you don't have to prop them up at all. they will just be curved at the bottom when they get bigger. no worries.

Thanks for the help guys

I'll transfer the grown ones into the the cubes now then and set an oscillating fan on them - I haven't got my proper ventilation system up and running yet, I didnt think it matters too much at the moment, does it?

and we'll see what happens from there

thanks

ventilation is always good, but when they are that small they have very few pores anyway. just fan them and you'll be good for a few weeks.

The only thing is they seem to have gone from looking droopy to looking half dying.

Not sure whats with them being 1st time and all, perhaps nothing I hope. theres a bit of white on 1 of the leaves and the others are real droopy?


Any ideas - I have been wicking water into the rockwool and the water is ph'd

???

I'm off to have a spliff to see if it makes anymore sense

white on leaves = suspect. you should worry about that. wicking = suspect. you should worry about that. Worm's Way - Ozone Compact Fluorescent Bulb<~~~ a link to an ozone generating cfl you can use for mold/odor. wicking is just too damn passive. you can do much better.

Please enlighten me.

you can build a rubbermaid ebb/flow or a crazy good bubbler for way cheap. rockwool needs to drain. if you haven't noticed, it holds water VERY well. VERY. wicking may be okay for young plants, but larger ones will certainly not thrive. build you a bubbler with mad air power, and thank me later.

I have an ebb and flood table but I am just trying to get these seedlings up first, I thought I needed to ge them grown some before I put the rockwool cubes in pots with clay pebbles and starting the flood cycles?

The one that was the biggest now has totally drooped over and the leaves at the top are all but dead, although the stem is still white.

Another one of them still has leaves but they look as though their wilting away.

But one of them looks lovely and healthy, nice straight stem with a lovely set of leaves on top.

The other 7 seeds haven't germinated (which is a right piss off at £50/10) but lets just hope I can at least keep the one alive and shes a bitch (please please) then with a decent mam I'll have endless cuttings.

Anyone offer any advice on the sorry state of my seeds?

Thanks