For the love of god! Help my plants

Chip Green

Chip Green

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The early learning days, especially when it comes to seedlings is a rollercoaster of emotions. We want so badly to "help" them along, often too much gets thrown at them. Seedlings are fragile, and VERY little is needed for them to establish good root structure.

Let me ask you a few questions...
How many seeds do you have left, if any? Were they expensive? Can you get more, maybe some unknowns, like bagseeds?
Then you can pop some trial beans, and TRY TO KILL them.... See where the MINIMUM threshold is for water, light, ect.....
What I'm getting at is, you will be shocked when you find out how little "input" these tiny plants actually require.....

Don't get too distraught man, you'll get it going, these are small hurdles in the learning process....
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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FiggyA said:
81f & 45rh, are they in a dome? Get a dome and quit fucking with 'em so much. Also a lot of good advice in this thread so far, it would behoove you to take some.
No nutes
Add perlite
Raise the light
And you'll be fine, it's a weed.
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No dome. That will invite bacteria that cause damping off. Only use domes with clones.

Newsun123 said:
My 1 week old seedling is not looking very alright to my untrained eye, the tips of the leaf looks yellow and I am panicing... I am growing in soil and ofcourse not feeding it at this stage.

The equipment I am using for veg is 300 clf and the temperature is about 27 degrees celsius and 45 % rh. The distance to my lamp is about 6-10 cm away... any advice is much apriciated.
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Those little seed things are horrible. Its hard to keep the moisture right. Up pit them to solo cups with holes poked in the bottom.

As far as water drops burning them it won't. Ever see it rain and then the sun come back out on a hot summer day? It doesn't fry my garden or mj plants.

I would say you are overwatering by misting constantly. The soil getting a little dry don't hurt. It will build better root system.
 
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Newsun123

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whitebb2727 said:
Oh. Forgot. Leave the damn thing alone or you are going to kill it.
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Gotcha, I got a little problem tho perhaps someone can put their input. Im working with 4 plants left and they are doing fine, the fifth is in slow recovery.
I've bought a nice soil with peat and perlite mixed - however the soil gets a bit to moist and muddy even if i dont water it for a long period of time (right now around 30 hours) - I'm thinking this has to do with the humidifier being a bit to close.. but if I move it further away the RH gets below 30%.. so im in a tough spot. I also have some small pockets of water here and there to try get the RH up, but I still feel the soil can be a bit to moist right now.
 
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Newsun123

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Chip Green said:
The early learning days, especially when it comes to seedlings is a rollercoaster of emotions. We want so badly to "help" them along, often too much gets thrown at them. Seedlings are fragile, and VERY little is needed for them to establish good root structure.

Let me ask you a few questions...
How many seeds do you have left, if any? Were they expensive? Can you get more, maybe some unknowns, like bagseeds?
Then you can pop some trial beans, and TRY TO KILL them.... See where the MINIMUM threshold is for water, light, ect.....
What I'm getting at is, you will be shocked when you find out how little "input" these tiny plants actually require.....

Don't get too distraught man, you'll get it going, these are small hurdles in the learning process....
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I understand completely what you mean, I bought 100 Northern Light seeds (right now i got 85 or so left). so I'm well prepeared, just that in life I had so many things go against me lately.. so even if they are just "testing" seeds really I feel maybe I can't even accomplish this simple thing so that's why the frustration. I'm actually running these 4 plants right now in different conditions try to understand and get to know the plants better.

Thanks again chip for taking time to replying!
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Newsun123 said:
Gotcha, I got a little problem tho perhaps someone can put their input. Im working with 4 plants left and they are doing fine, the fifth is in slow recovery.
I've bought a nice soil with peat and perlite mixed - however the soil gets a bit to moist and muddy even if i dont water it for a long period of time (right now around 30 hours) - I'm thinking this has to do with the humidifier being a bit to close.. but if I move it further away the RH gets below 30%.. so im in a tough spot. I also have some small pockets of water here and there to try get the RH up, but I still feel the soil can be a bit to moist right now.
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Dude. Quit thinking you have to water a lot. 30 hours?

LEAVE IT ALONE. QUIT WATERING. DO NOTHING. LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A FEW DAYS.

30 hours is not a long time. Sometimes I go a few days without watering in solo cups. Longer in big pots.

I've planted straight to 7 gallon pots for autos and sometimes don't have to water the first 15 or 20 days or so.

Learn to leave them alone.
 
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Newsun123

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whitebb2727 said:
Dude. Quit thinking you have to water a lot. 30 hours?

LEAVE IT ALONE. QUIT WATERING. DO NOTHING. LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A FEW DAYS.

30 hours is not a long time. Sometimes I go a few days without watering in solo cups. Longer in big pots.

I've planted straight to 7 gallon pots for autos and sometimes don't have to water the first 15 or 20 days or so.

Learn to leave them alone.
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If you read my post, the issue is not watering. The issue is the soil is a bit to muddy & wet, even if I am *not* watering. This is why I was wondering if this could be related to the humidifier. Another thing that is on my mind is: I read an analysis of my tap water and supposedely it's a tad bit to high PH for Marijuana, so I think I'll buy a PH meter tomorrow and check that out to.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Newsun123 said:
If you read my post, the issue is not watering. The issue is the soil is a bit to muddy & wet, even if I am *not* watering. This is why I was wondering if this could be related to the humidifier. Another thing that is on my mind is: I read an analysis of my tap water and supposedely it's a tad bit to high PH for Marijuana, so I think I'll buy a PH meter tomorrow and check that out to.
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No. You said the longest you went without watering is 30 hours. 1 day and 6 hours. Quit watering. Don't touch it or look at for 3 days.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Ill correct that. You think 30 hours is a long time not to water. Quit judging one plant by the others and leave it alone.
 
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Newsun123

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Hello dear friends, one of the two affected plants survived, the rest of mine is looking well and growing great.

I had a question to all of you guys that helped me, is it time for me to cut the yellow leaf loose? I know most of you said dont do anything leave it be, but i figure i'd ask as I'm thinking removing the yellow leafs (and maybe the one remaining vital starter leaf.. starts with C something) I've attched picture
 

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FiggyA

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Snip it.
In my opinion, it's more of a burden for the plant than any benefit gained by keeping it.
That fuckers worthless.
Glad the rest of 'em are turning around. Keep at it.
 
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