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Kevins478

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HHi all. I'm a newbie and I have tried to do this pretty much alone and it was all goin ok I suppose but now def not good. Ok problem is I have lost pretty much 3 off my 10 seedlings. They were all started in cup and all produced tap root. Great . 10 outta 10. So after 36 hours moved to paper towel covered and left damp. All got decent roots so after 4 days I planted in rock wool. I gave them some water and waited to they produced set off leaves and then gave them light. The distinguising leaves appeared and I moved them to coco peat and perlite 50:50. Den days later 3 are what I think f##ked. I thought it was they were starving so I mixed mutes with water at 50% the recommended dose and fed them to water came out off bottom. I haven't fed them anything else and the nutes was recommended by a guy at hydro store. I said I was looking to grow tomatoes and he said is it tomatoes or "special" tomatoes. So from that he recommended me what I needed. Pretty decent off him.
So with the water I have been gettin ph to about 6.5 I think Using a drop ph tester bit hard to get right I think and letting water set to room temp. Now the seedlings are outside in garden in the pots as I was thinking maybe real sunlight would help but no success. The leaves on the remaining ones have what I think nute burns but as the plants are 3-3 1/2 weeks old I thought they needed a little bit. I'm not sure what to do. Il try post pictures off them all. Any help please???
 
hiya Kevins478, what kinda light have do you have them under? 50% strength is still a stronge dose to a baby that's not used to it..leave off the Nutes till you no the cause of problem..
You say plants are 3-3 1/2 wks old? how many leaf sets did you have? stupid question maybe but did you soak rockwool prior to putting seeds into...

Hope you manage to sort it m8, try post some pics

Peace
 
A pic would help. The nutes were likely the problem. Don't add more for now.

They were likely not ready for any nutes. Without knowing what you used or how much, you likely gave half of a full dose. Doses for young plants are smaller and I start with under half of that.
 
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