Mr. Bong Chong
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Actually yes I just watered 2 of them... Though I'm watering them when the top of the soil goes crusty and dusty which is every day so far...
Replant Those Long Stretchy Stems ( Its Easy )
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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ
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i wouldnt knock all the dirt off you probably would kill it, just rplant it into a pot with higher rim so that you can just put dirt ontop to cover up the stem, also if there that severely stretched thees not enough light,
xMOONx
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Good simple help here for stretchy babies. I just fixed my 3 WW fem babies yesterday--they were real stretched. I filled up to bottom leaves with soil & lowered my cfl's much closer. This mornin they had new leaves starting & were all smilin!! They 15 days old.
xMOONx
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This thread is for: HELP FOR STRETCHING BABY SEEDLINGS UP TO A COUPLE WEEKS OLD!The splitters are $2.00 at the depot. They should be an easy find. I would like to find FOUR WAY splitters. I saw them on the idiot box on finished lamps. Hate using 3 two way to get a four way.
It's not specific to weed but "Gardening 101" says to never to cover exposed stem with more dirt. I don't know about weed but stem rot occurs in woodies. For you guys practicing replanting are you covering softwood or semi-soft wood with success?? Could you scratch the stem and use rooting hormones?
I have a plant I'm gonna pull out of my box.... Maybe I will give it a test and pinch off a set of leaves and plant it as deep as the first node. I wonder?
TwistedReaction
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Nice one bro, did it yesterday and it worked out lank well!
Sk33tINnOObs
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LOL... Thats wat i do if they get lil to long... Works just fine no problems just be carfull wen you taking it out or you gonna break the stem then you fu**ed... Stay High my friends
Rottedroots
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Hey Budski.. Your thread has intrigued me. I know the emphasis was on repotting light starved leggy babies back into the same container and I have basically done that. I have a healthy little plant and the stem is wooding up a bit and my little box won't hold one more. I was just curious and thought I would test if a more mature stem will set roots as well. Not a big deal indoors but outdoors it's nice to get the roots down where the soil is moist or at least moister.
I cleaned up the stem a bit cutting off fan leaves and even a little axiel growth. I teased the roots a little and scraped the sides of them stem and dusted in rooting hormone. I then sunk her a solid three inches. No nutes, just a good mudding in to remove air pockets.
What's your guess goten??? Will she set roots or rot? Have you tried setting roots on older stems? Well I'm just messin but if it works it would be slick to sink 10 inches of a 15 inch plant outdoors in good soil knowing it wouldn't stress out too much and would develop so much more root.
I must admit that I was a skeptic goten but there doesn't seems to be one negative response or result. I was sure there would be some rot lurking around. Live and learn and I appreciate the lesson.
I cleaned up the stem a bit cutting off fan leaves and even a little axiel growth. I teased the roots a little and scraped the sides of them stem and dusted in rooting hormone. I then sunk her a solid three inches. No nutes, just a good mudding in to remove air pockets.
What's your guess goten??? Will she set roots or rot? Have you tried setting roots on older stems? Well I'm just messin but if it works it would be slick to sink 10 inches of a 15 inch plant outdoors in good soil knowing it wouldn't stress out too much and would develop so much more root.
I must admit that I was a skeptic goten but there doesn't seems to be one negative response or result. I was sure there would be some rot lurking around. Live and learn and I appreciate the lesson.
Thedillestpickle
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It sounds very straight forward, Im a little worried though as I have detected a little smidge of powdery mold on one of the stems near the base of the seedling. Probably its immune system is compromized by the same thing that cause the stretch(not enough light) they all(10 seedlings) have long stretchy stems and this seems like the right solution for them, except maybe the one with the smidge of powder on it, I just treated it with peroxide btw. I am worried that if i put that stem down in damp coco the PM will love it? or maybe it needs open air and that will cure it? any thoughts on this? anyone get rotten stems from sticking them in 3 inches of soil?(well im using coco but same thing)
Clonex
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Umm no trolling here but .....
Firstly i dont know if you used that seedling just for example , but that seedling didn't look to stretched to me ?? and also i am just wondering obviously you do not grow them out in those little cups , so why not just do it on transplant ?? i thought this was common practice anyway ????
Is this just a thread about the obvious or did i miss summit , Peace.
Firstly i dont know if you used that seedling just for example , but that seedling didn't look to stretched to me ?? and also i am just wondering obviously you do not grow them out in those little cups , so why not just do it on transplant ?? i thought this was common practice anyway ????
Is this just a thread about the obvious or did i miss summit , Peace.
goten
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Never had an issue with pm on seedlings my man so i can not give you a for sure answer to that
But maybe you cleaning it off with that h2o2 , ( peroxide ) will help ,
Maybe you can add some extra heat to it to help dry it out quicker and possibly stop it
I just dont know why you would have pm on your seedlings though
How often are you watering , maybe your watering to much and its allowing mildew to grow
But maybe you cleaning it off with that h2o2 , ( peroxide ) will help ,
Maybe you can add some extra heat to it to help dry it out quicker and possibly stop it
I just dont know why you would have pm on your seedlings though
How often are you watering , maybe your watering to much and its allowing mildew to grow
goten
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It was not to stretched , that was used for as an example
Of course they got transplanted when they got bigger
This thread is not about transplanting , but you want to re bury those stretchy stems before you transplant anyway
If you wait to bury it when you transplant then your still gonna have a weak stem
Burring the stretchy stems and taking care of the problem a.s.a.p will help thicken up the stem also and give you a stronger plant
But like i said this thread is not about transplanting , just how to simply solve a seedling stretch problem
Clonex
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Ok man , well a good fan fix's any weak stems after transplant , i guess i am just missing the point eh
Clonex
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i hear you and really not looking for a ruck , but norm what i do on transplant is just bury it a bit deeper , it has the same affect.
i guess maybe as i use root riot cubes etc , this maybe why my approach is different.
Thedillestpickle
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not all that experienced but I think this is a great idea and good thread to have around. The fan trick might work most of the time but if you were to see my seedlings you would understand that sometimes its too late... I put a fan in there to try and correct the stretching and it made two of the ten bend over beyond 45 degrees and away from the light even... didnt look good so i propped them up with some wire. Everyone is a bit surprized to hear of PM on tiny seedlings and insisting that I must have overwatered, I dont think that is the case, but I did also not mention that the one that has that spot of PM had quite the early traumatic experience/near death as I will explain:
day 3 after germination I had every seed come up but two, and all were germinated before being put in jiffy pellets and had good roots about half an inch long when they were put in. I dug down to see why 2 didnt pop and I found that one had grown a second main root or something and was actually pushing its seedpod downwards with that and had no hope at all of survival, I pulled it up from what I thought was the main root and discovered that there was in fact a second root shooting straight down(still it would probably never have emerged with the way it was pushing a root strait up and not with the seed leave so not a stem) and that main root got ripped clean off right at the seed. This is on a 2 1/2 day sprouted seed... so I was like fuck its probably gunna die but I did my best and planted it back in the soil with the seedpod just poking out of the jiffy. and it grew quite well, its about 2 days behind the other seedlings but is otherwise perfectly healthy, must have rerooted and all was good. but I think the trauma and fingers all over it and all that gave an easy way in for mold spores and took advantage of this, now it has a small speck that doesnt look bad but Im not going to just ignore it and lose it again if I dont have to. In fact in some ways it is the healthiest of the bunch as it did not stretch as much as the others because I had the light down lower by the time it came up.
I will transplant and be sure to bury up close to the seed leaves sometime tommorrow assuming I can get my bigger veg room setup in time.
THanks alot for this great technique hopefully I will never have to use it again !
day 3 after germination I had every seed come up but two, and all were germinated before being put in jiffy pellets and had good roots about half an inch long when they were put in. I dug down to see why 2 didnt pop and I found that one had grown a second main root or something and was actually pushing its seedpod downwards with that and had no hope at all of survival, I pulled it up from what I thought was the main root and discovered that there was in fact a second root shooting straight down(still it would probably never have emerged with the way it was pushing a root strait up and not with the seed leave so not a stem) and that main root got ripped clean off right at the seed. This is on a 2 1/2 day sprouted seed... so I was like fuck its probably gunna die but I did my best and planted it back in the soil with the seedpod just poking out of the jiffy. and it grew quite well, its about 2 days behind the other seedlings but is otherwise perfectly healthy, must have rerooted and all was good. but I think the trauma and fingers all over it and all that gave an easy way in for mold spores and took advantage of this, now it has a small speck that doesnt look bad but Im not going to just ignore it and lose it again if I dont have to. In fact in some ways it is the healthiest of the bunch as it did not stretch as much as the others because I had the light down lower by the time it came up.
I will transplant and be sure to bury up close to the seed leaves sometime tommorrow assuming I can get my bigger veg room setup in time.
THanks alot for this great technique hopefully I will never have to use it again !
Thedillestpickle
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sorry I said it was PM, I think more accurately it would be called "damping off" which I have read is fatal once initiated... Im not too sure its absolutely fatal... the plant is still growing just like the others, no sign of it going to die, I cant really see whats happening down there now since I buried the stems as instructed in this thread. All my plants seem to be doing great now with there stems buried to about 1 1/2 inch from the seed leaves, seems to be working just fine. Thanks for this very valuable information!
