Overwatered Seedlings

Avering

Avering

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I have some stretchy overwatered seedlings that I was thinking of storing in cups of water under 24/0 lighting or outdoors under some shade until the stems root. Could I just have them in a clear glass cup? Does the root receiving light kill the plant? Anyone do this? Just trying to save some space. Thank you!
 
Stretchy can be fixed and not a game ender. Overwatered can be big probs.Your kinda all over the place lol. 24 hrs of light or outside in shade until they root?
Are they seedlings or cuttings? Personally if they’re small seedlings id probably rinse them out of soaked media and replant them in new dry media burying the stretch up to cotyledons, water correctly and keep them on 18-6. I wouldn’t use clear cups but some do/ have. You can do your own research on roots being exposed to light but generally not ideal.
 
bam0813 said:
Stretchy can be fixed and not a game ender. Overwatered can be big probs.Your kinda all over the place lol. 24 hrs of light or outside in shade until they root?
Are they seedlings or cuttings? Personally if they’re small seedlings id probably rinse them out of soaked media and replant them in new dry media burying the stretch up to cotyledons, water correctly and keep them on 18-6. I wouldn’t use clear cups but some do/ have. You can do your own research on roots being exposed to light but generally not ideal.
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They’re seedlings! I kinda just wanna leave them alone and let them dry out again. I have a few to play with so might try replanting one again to see what happens. Yeah I have space outdoors but I need to figure out how to conceal them a bit so I’m trying to fill up my garden with some other plants! Thank you. Gonna switch to 18/6 soon.
 
bam0813 said:
Stretchy can be fixed and not a game ender. Overwatered can be big probs.Your kinda all over the place lol. 24 hrs of light or outside in shade until they root?
Are they seedlings or cuttings? Personally if they’re small seedlings id probably rinse them out of soaked media and replant them in new dry media burying the stretch up to cotyledons, water correctly and keep them on 18-6. I wouldn’t use clear cups but some do/ have. You can do your own research on roots being exposed to light but generally not ideal.
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I meant the clear cups for the seedlings perhaps on the windowsill to let them grow out their roots while I have other plants in the tent, I feel like I’ve seen it before where people just have a plant in a glass vase with nice healthy roots and I guess they just change the water. Gonna try it out on a plant
 
bam0813 said:
Stretchy can be fixed and not a game ender. Overwatered can be big probs.Your kinda all over the place lol. 24 hrs of light or outside in shade until they root?
Are they seedlings or cuttings? Personally if they’re small seedlings id probably rinse them out of soaked media and replant them in new dry media burying the stretch up to cotyledons, water correctly and keep them on 18-6. I wouldn’t use clear cups but some do/ have. You can do your own research on roots being exposed to light but generally not ideal.
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I apologize if I’m all over the place, I have so many questions that I try to find in threads but it feels good to finally ask them myself. I don’t want to bother people lol
 
Ah Okay, i should have worded that as, until I see the roots grow more. I wanted to see if putting them in a container with water would be better than battling with overwatered soil. It’s strange cause I have some cover crop seedlings growing alongside the plants and they look pretty healthy. So that makes me wonder why the cannabis is not doing so well. It’s early here too, about to be 5a.m. I’m in southeast USA
 
I’ve never put seedlings in water. Seems like hydroponic and i don’t grow hydro but pretty sure you have to have the water dialed in as well. Aeration , temp etc not 100 though. Like I said imo i thinks it’s easier to just get them in new dry soil especially if that’s where they will end up. Id worry about drowning/ suffocating and damp off keeping them in overwatered soil. Im picturing mud but obviously it might not be as bad as im picturing.
 
It's hard to over water soil when you have a mini wet vac, that you can suck the excess moisture out through the drainage hole of pretty much any size pot with in less than a minute. ;)

Ya you can grow them bare root in a container with water. Might as well add air pumps and net pots, and skip growing with dirty soil altogether ;);)
 
I've been known to hold 2 overwatered plants, one in each hand (while also supporting the weak stalks from snapping with my wrist), and spin really, fast like a centrifugal washing machine drum on the drain cycle. :bigjoint:
 
bam0813 said:
Thats a slick idea with the wet vac. It doesn’t suck the media out or is the drain just to small?
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Nah it really doesn't. Not that bad any way, and soil is usually more compact. You can control the flow by how far you hold it away, or even hold a straw up to the end of the nozzle for a smaller pot. If it really is a problem, you could just hold a coffee filter over the nozzle.
 
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