wpxtacoman477
Active Member
Ok, so I've been reading quite a bit of threads lately where newer growers are having issues with their seedlings and I thought I would just share some info,
lighting for your newly sprouted babies:
your new mj seedlings are fresh out the oven and perkin their little cotyledons and everyone should be eager at this point in time with all the time spent researching and preparing your grow room and planning everything out (hopefully as a smart grower, new or not, we've all done this? Prepare before we get them started?) and your ready to start supplementing outdoor lighting! Hopefully you planed out the lighting for your light.. If so, you'd know that veg, you want blue. Bloom, you want some red/yellow color spectrum.. So you found out mh has blue and hps is orange yellow right? Well allot of people's mistakes here is that they get the right kind of lighting and they did put forth the effort, but didnt consider intensity since they've never done this type of thing before.. Well those young babies from the day you notice the radicles (first root) to cotyledons (the first, round, seed shaped leafs) all the way till you see your first true leafs and even to the point that you've got several nodes are very delicate! You shouldn't need anything more than the light bouncing around the room to supply the amount of light they need to photosynthesis properly! You may add light to give the lost babies direction, but you wanna use low intensity lights because those mh or mercury vapor lights are gonna burn! They are hot and they give off more light than you'll need for young seedlings! Something such as cfl's or led's turned down low should be plenty of light until these babies reach vegetive stage.. Then you can start pushing your babies!
the all important, food!:
some people never really do much research further than "how to" and never go in depth about "why". The construction of seeds is a very magnificent thing and you would never expect a baby to be so self independent and not rely on anything. They poses the genetics from their parents, along with some of their life's energy stored away to be put to use later in life.. The seeds carry hormones and nutrients that they will require when it comes time for them to do their thing! All they need is water (to activate the hormones inside of the seed) and proper temps. Later, they will need some light to get going, but not for the photosynthesis, merely just for direction (like a compass) and these little pods we call seeds, contain all the hormones and nutrients they will need until they develop enough to become reliant on their surroundings. This means that you should not be adding more nutrients to get them to grow faster during this young stage. They have what they need and shouldn't require any for a brief while. The way the babies are designed is to carry those within the cotyledons. That's usually why you see them nice and fat and juicy to start with and usually shrivel up later on in the plants life. They draw the life energy from those starting leafs to develop better roots, to in turn, bring the top part life later. Kind of like a bank giving people loans to get their business started.. The bank gives enough, doesn't get any back until later after their business has "grown" and then returns the favor. That's why the cotyledons never really grow bigger like the other leafs because they are giving and not receiving yet. No need because they contain enough. (As long as they're re healthy seeds and bred properly and have good genetics) That's how I see it at least lol! But allot of people's eagerness gets in the way of Mother Nature and drives them to add nutrients when they don't need them yet. The roots are getting what they need and will show signs when they decide to return some energy.. That's usually when the cotyledons start to shrivel, showing that it's getting low on savings. Which is usually when you've got several true leafs going and a nice root structure started. Also a good indicator that they are ready for nutrients (if there are none in the medium already) is when the true leafs start to show deficiencies, assuming that you've got a proper environment such as good temps, just right lights, nice and wet but not soaked, and so on.. But people tend to start adding nutrients in hope that the plant will use them up like steroids and grow faster and better.. When in fact, they are in a delicate stage! They are babies for crying out loud lol..
Hope I could clear up some people's mistakes or misunderstandings, anything I typed is while being stoned so typos are my bad.. Also if anythings wrong, please feel free to correct me! I don't mind some helpful criticism
lighting for your newly sprouted babies:
your new mj seedlings are fresh out the oven and perkin their little cotyledons and everyone should be eager at this point in time with all the time spent researching and preparing your grow room and planning everything out (hopefully as a smart grower, new or not, we've all done this? Prepare before we get them started?) and your ready to start supplementing outdoor lighting! Hopefully you planed out the lighting for your light.. If so, you'd know that veg, you want blue. Bloom, you want some red/yellow color spectrum.. So you found out mh has blue and hps is orange yellow right? Well allot of people's mistakes here is that they get the right kind of lighting and they did put forth the effort, but didnt consider intensity since they've never done this type of thing before.. Well those young babies from the day you notice the radicles (first root) to cotyledons (the first, round, seed shaped leafs) all the way till you see your first true leafs and even to the point that you've got several nodes are very delicate! You shouldn't need anything more than the light bouncing around the room to supply the amount of light they need to photosynthesis properly! You may add light to give the lost babies direction, but you wanna use low intensity lights because those mh or mercury vapor lights are gonna burn! They are hot and they give off more light than you'll need for young seedlings! Something such as cfl's or led's turned down low should be plenty of light until these babies reach vegetive stage.. Then you can start pushing your babies!
the all important, food!:
some people never really do much research further than "how to" and never go in depth about "why". The construction of seeds is a very magnificent thing and you would never expect a baby to be so self independent and not rely on anything. They poses the genetics from their parents, along with some of their life's energy stored away to be put to use later in life.. The seeds carry hormones and nutrients that they will require when it comes time for them to do their thing! All they need is water (to activate the hormones inside of the seed) and proper temps. Later, they will need some light to get going, but not for the photosynthesis, merely just for direction (like a compass) and these little pods we call seeds, contain all the hormones and nutrients they will need until they develop enough to become reliant on their surroundings. This means that you should not be adding more nutrients to get them to grow faster during this young stage. They have what they need and shouldn't require any for a brief while. The way the babies are designed is to carry those within the cotyledons. That's usually why you see them nice and fat and juicy to start with and usually shrivel up later on in the plants life. They draw the life energy from those starting leafs to develop better roots, to in turn, bring the top part life later. Kind of like a bank giving people loans to get their business started.. The bank gives enough, doesn't get any back until later after their business has "grown" and then returns the favor. That's why the cotyledons never really grow bigger like the other leafs because they are giving and not receiving yet. No need because they contain enough. (As long as they're re healthy seeds and bred properly and have good genetics) That's how I see it at least lol! But allot of people's eagerness gets in the way of Mother Nature and drives them to add nutrients when they don't need them yet. The roots are getting what they need and will show signs when they decide to return some energy.. That's usually when the cotyledons start to shrivel, showing that it's getting low on savings. Which is usually when you've got several true leafs going and a nice root structure started. Also a good indicator that they are ready for nutrients (if there are none in the medium already) is when the true leafs start to show deficiencies, assuming that you've got a proper environment such as good temps, just right lights, nice and wet but not soaked, and so on.. But people tend to start adding nutrients in hope that the plant will use them up like steroids and grow faster and better.. When in fact, they are in a delicate stage! They are babies for crying out loud lol..
Hope I could clear up some people's mistakes or misunderstandings, anything I typed is while being stoned so typos are my bad.. Also if anythings wrong, please feel free to correct me! I don't mind some helpful criticism
