In A Bind / Need some good advice -- Please respond

Hello fellow RUI'ers. I am fairly new to the outdoor trek but I am not a noob at growing. I have some good experience indoors but only familiar with the strain I had been working with in the past. (Barneys Farm Pineapple Chunk)

I mainly used clones in the past and never really started from seed before but for the outdoor season this year I had a lot of extra beans lying around so I decided to put some to use. They have been on a 16/8 light schedule under a mixed spectrum of CFLs in my home made cab that I use.



Here they are, all were planted a few days before 4/20. After getting real discouraged from different seeds either rotting on me or just not working with the paper towel method I decided to use the cup of water method, dropping the beans in the cup and waiting until they sink or crack a taproot, then I just filled a tray with FFOF soil and planted the beans directly into the medium.

Great news most have broke the soil after about 2-3 days of being in the medium and seem to be looking healthy, but will those really stretchy ones be ok to transplant even though they are so tall? Can I just bury that stem all the way in soil to the top pretty much? Should I just ditch them and keep the stronger ones out of the batch?


About half of the seeds are from an indoor run I did last season with some pineapple chunk and I got left with a bunch of beans. All I know is that the genetics are Pineapple Chunk x ???

The other half of the seeds are unknown beans I have just been collecting over the months.

I also plan to make a thread documenting my outdoor trek this year but I had hit a dillemna with the seedlings.

Any help/input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

F2H.

when u transplant just build more dirt up for the stretchy ones and theyll be good

How long do you think I can keep them in there before I should transplant? Do you think a good root system should be developed first since it is such a small space? thanks.

F2H

did you have a humididty dome on these babies?

usually seedlings will stretch like that if not put in the soon soon enough or left in the dome too long after sprouting...in a desperate attempt to find light they use the minimal energy stores to try and find it by stretching.....this happened with my sunflower plants that i started indoors...i started them in a seedling tray just like yours with a humidity dome on it.... forgot about them and when i checked they were really lanky...they bounced back though and are doing fine but i dont know if this applies to marijuana

I believe the lanky ones should probably be fine eventually... but if you do not really care then i would say just keep the normal ones, the lanky ones will probably have at least some stem/support problems later on IMHO

Hey, Thanks for the replies guys.

To indcolts77, yes I did have a dome over them for the most time (just recently took it off and moved them closer to the light)

I think I am going to just select the strongest ones and scrap the rest. (less supplies wasted)

But to my understanding dont seedlings and clones like humidity and the whole dome thing? Can anyone else chime in on this?

Also for future reference is there any way to minimize the stretching when starting a huge number of seeds like this? Thanks.

F2H.

I use peat moss as my potting mix base and it does a great job of holding onto moisture so I don't need the dome. If I was growing something in a sand based medium then the dome would be helpful.

Thats a nice tip vindicated, I will remember that for the future. Does anybody have any tips on transplanting these? Like is it easier to water them all down before transplant or wait until they are dry? It seems like its going to be a real hassle trying to get these guys out of those little spaces. Any more help greatly appreciated. Thanks

F2H.

Favre2Harvin said:

Hey, Thanks for the replies guys.

To indcolts77, yes I did have a dome over them for the most time (just recently took it off and moved them closer to the light)


I think I am going to just select the strongest ones and scrap the rest. (less supplies wasted)

But to my understanding dont seedlings and clones like humidity and the whole dome thing? Can anyone else chime in on this?

Also for future reference is there any way to minimize the stretching when starting a huge number of seeds like this? Thanks.
F2H.

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That explains it then man...I would just take the strongest and focus your attention on those ...yo just gotta hope one of the strong ones are female haha in the future just check your tray often and remove from the dome as soon as they sprout, they have wasted alot of energy breaking soil and need light asap to avoid stretching ...seedlings don't need the humidity, just clones and unsprouted seeds

As for transplant: I water, let sit for like a day to compact a bit then transplant ...this helps keep the rootball intact and undamaged ...if its dry soil won't hold and can possibly pull some roots off....wet soil can pull roots too if you're not careful...but its easier to hold wet soil together than dry soil that's for sure

Favre2Harvin said:

Hey, Thanks for the replies guys.

To indcolts77, yes I did have a dome over them for the most time (just recently took it off and moved them closer to the light)

I think I am going to just select the strongest ones and scrap the rest. (less supplies wasted)

But to my understanding dont seedlings and clones like humidity and the whole dome thing? Can anyone else chime in on this?

Also for future reference is there any way to minimize the stretching when starting a huge number of seeds like this? Thanks.

F2H.

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i wouldnt scrap them, theres alot of time in the grow season for thos to fill in, there just seedlings after all and they should certainly turn into healthy good plants, if it gets to be later in the season, say u lose some to weather, maybe pests, a few males, youll most likely wish u hadnt scaped them, as you will never know what theyll turn intto

hey my brother if it were me i would put each one in a large styrofoam cup (easy to break and cheap)and fill up to the bottom of the leaves and in the next weeks you can just cut the cup and transplant alot easier.. but do it soon those long stems are just like a root ,they can't take alot of light.. cover them babies up..

Update guys i'll be transplanting the survivors to solo cups in a few mins here. I was thinking about getting a super soil mix going, do you think it will be too late to let it "cook" as they say? while I veg inside? any more replies would be great, thanks.

F2H

everything transplanted.

Bump....... still looking for advice on the super soil guys..........

F2H

Favre2Harvin said:

Bump....... still looking for advice on the super soil guys..........

F2H

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i wouldnt, very short notice to get all the supplies, properly mix and let sit. id just go with a very basic soil, nothing to fancy, maybe throw some worm castings in for good measure, and just get bottled nutes to give when u water. the point of the supersoil is to eliminate haveing to feed it extra nutes as the soil has everything the plant is gonna need throughout its life, but at this point i think itd be best if u went with bottled nutes,.