Help please! 2 week old seedling dying

SuckMyBigBud

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Help pleaE,
I have an AK-48 seed that I had leftover from about 5 years ago that luckily sprouted and I was really excited. It was very full of life and doing amazing until lastnight when I noticed a couple leaves darkening a lot .

And now they're browning , I use to grow years ago, and was just starting back up this year. I've had a few successful grows but I've been out of the game for a while , and I have no idea what is causing this.

I started this AK in a jiffy pellet then transplanted to this pot about 5 days ago . My tap waters PH is roughly 6.0 according to my testing kit , and at night it is under a 200 watt CFL , and in the day I put the baby seeding in the window for some good ol' sunlight . She's currently under 24 hrs of light and has been since birth.
I transplanted thebAK into miracle grow seed starting soil (0.3-0.3-0.3) I've used this soil to germ and start all my precious AK's years back and had awesome results with it 100% germ and nice growth , so I'm really confused
Also my AK is growing alongside some vegetable plants . I only started this one AK but am waiting on some more AK-48's, OG Kush autos and some auto ultimates.

Anyway I really hope someone can help me with this issue, I don't want my baby to dieeee.
 

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AKA Big Boss

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Shit really ?

Is this normal for such a low nute soil to burn a seedling ? I've grown a dozen in this stuff before and it had never happent .

Anything I can do? Or just wait it out and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply
Well the soil looks a bit compacted from the pics so that could also be a factor but cannabis can be extremely sensitive to nutrients which is why I prefer coco coir.

Just do a flush and see if that helps at all. May take a few days to see results.
 

SuckMyBigBud

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Well the soil looks a bit compacted from the pics so that could also be a factor but cannabis can be extremely sensitive to nutrients which is why I prefer coco coir.

Just do a flush and see if that helps at all. May take a few days to see results.
Alrighty will do, thanks a bunch.

I was planning on growing all my plants this summer in Pro-mix , which is coco based I believe. Do you reccomend that to start my next seedlings in/grow them in?

Thanks I really appreciate the input
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Alrighty will do, thanks a bunch.

I was planning on growing all my plants this summer in Pro-mix , which is coco based I believe. Do you reccomend that to start my next seedlings in/grow them in?

Thanks I really appreciate the input
promix is peat based, gotta treat it more like soil than coco
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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i actually like coco better than peat, but no one in my area carries coco, so i end up using promix most of the time. i started off trying to treat it like coco, and quickly figured out that they aren't the same
 

AKA Big Boss

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i actually like coco better than peat, but no one in my area carries coco, so i end up using promix most of the time. i started off trying to treat it like coco, and quickly figured out that they aren't the same
You can get decent coco bricks on eBay and Amazon. You can also get super cheap giant ass bags of perlite on Homedepot's website
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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perlite isn't a problem, it's just a lot easier (and cheaper) to use the vigoro peat potting mix, than it is to buy coco online. i know a lot of it is good quality, but i bought two different brands, and they both sucked. the Kempf coco had salt crystals as big as the end of my pinky all through the whole brick, and Nature's brand wasn't pre-charged, ended up using a whole bottle of cal-mag that grow.
i've gotten used to the peat now, and am getting good results with it. i'd go back to coco if someone local carried it, and it wasn't full of salt...
 

AKA Big Boss

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perlite isn't a problem, it's just a lot easier (and cheaper) to use the vigoro peat potting mix, than it is to buy coco online. i know a lot of it is good quality, but i bought two different brands, and they both sucked. the Kempf coco had salt crystals as big as the end of my pinky all through the whole brick, and Nature's brand wasn't pre-charged, ended up using a whole bottle of cal-mag that grow.
i've gotten used to the peat now, and am getting good results with it. i'd go back to coco if someone local carried it, and it wasn't full of salt...
I use Coco Tek and rinse until the runoff is the same as the water I'm flushing with. My gripe with peat moss is that it's insanely absorbent and does not release the water as readily as coco. It's basically a fungus factory and it makes watering and flushing more complicated than it needs to be. I also hate it for seedlings and clones beacuse it's water retention leads to drowning and damping off.

As it stands I've only gone through less than half the bottle of CaliMagic in 3 grows.
 
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