SEEDLING TAPPING OFF?

[Beachwalker]

I get that. Sometimes a flush is needed and works with seedlings sometimes in well draining soil.

I thought we were actually talking about a seedling.

This guy kept digging and poking at the seed before it even sprouted.


If someone is that tore up and worried that they dig a seed up then maybe they shouldn't grow. It will drive them nuts.

Some sites have like a form and you got to fill it out with all your grow info before people even start helping them, and it really helps to stop things like this, don't know if it would work here though?

Edit: .. first the backyard dirt and now I just saw the picture right?! .. he's poking at a seed, well I guess there's more than one way to do things but I've never had anything beneficial come from poking at a seed, but maybe in this case he was better off getting it out of the backyard dirt ?



Op I'm glad your shell is doing better! (get yourself some better soil) p.s. it's called damping off, not tapping

 

[McGrowTx]

yeah lmao i had a little sprout do this before and when i didn’t take it out of the medium that was the problem it just died, so based off of past experiences that’s why i moved it

 

[whitebb2727]

yeah lmao i had a little sprout do this before and when i didn’t take it out of the medium that was the problem it just died, so based off of past experiences that’s why i moved it

Just plant them and leave them be.

I put mine straight to soil. Only fifth grade science class and pot growers use paper towels.

Some crops like some beans need soaking before planting but even then I don't. I grow flowers and a vegetable garden that we can to eat. I also grow cannabis. I never use paper towels.

When the tap root emerges in the paper towel it developes many very fine roots or root hairs. Those attach to the paper towel. When you remove the seed it breaks them.

Any extra steps used provide a chance for damage to the tap root and allow pathogens or bacteria in that cause damping off.

If you must use paper towels take the seed out when the tap root is a 1/4 inch or less. Plant with the tap root up. I know it sounds crazy but the tap root makes a u turn as it comes out.



Hope this info helps.

 

[Beachwalker]

First the seedling turns out to be a seed. then it's in dirt from the backyard. so how is it too hot if it's still in the shell is a mystery to me. and I have no idea how you'd flush a seed ???

DREGER would not have liked this thread

 

[McGrowTx]

First the seedling turns out to be a seed. then it's in dirt from the backyard. so how is it too hot if it's still in the shell is a mystery to me. and I have no idea how you'd flush a seed ???

DREGER would not have liked this thread

i consider it a seedling because it has some green on the stem, which means it has the green chloroplasts so technically it would need the same condition of a very young seedling

 

[Dynamo626]

Paper towl. I laugh so hard when i hear this. Also yard dirt lol. If you exoect it to perform spend 15 bucks on a good potting soil.
www.rollitup.org/t/dynamos-method-for-seedlings.967818/

 

[McGrowTx]

Paper towl. I laugh so hard when i hear this. Also yard dirt lol. If you exoect it to perform spend 15 bucks on a good potting soil.
www.rollitup.org/t/dynamos-method-for-seedlings.967818/

i used normal potting mix (it wasn’t miracle grow) and i was too hot so i used yard dirt because i had no option ig

 

[robert 14617]

Have to learn how to let the process take it's course ,plant the seed in good soil water and keep your hands off ,less is better in this case

 

[McGrowTx]

Have to learn how to let the process take it's course ,plant the seed in good soil water and keep your hands off ,less is better in this case

understandable, i wish i could start a new project but i can’t because i can’t afford things right now

 

[robert 14617]

understandable, i wish i could start a new project but i can’t because i can’t afford things right now

Growing dosent have to be expensive 1.50 go 5 gal bucket ,15 bucks for soil,pearllight.,tap water 10 bucks Jack's classic plant food

 

[McGrowTx]

Growing dosent have to be expensive 1.50 go 5 gal bucket ,15 bucks for soil,pearllight.,tap water 10 bucks Jack's classic plant food

so the cost of like a small outside grow would start out at about 25 bucks probably if i really wanted to save? not including seeds

 

[robert 14617]

so the cost of like a small outside grow would start out at about 25 bucks probably if i really wanted to save? not including seeds

I had bag seed grow into a tree outside where I grew tomatoes, never cost me a dime,it started raining we cut it down and carried it in three laundry baskets full on bush

 

[1212ham]

When the tap root emerges in the paper towel it developes many very fine roots or root hairs. Those attach to the paper towel. When you remove the seed it breaks them.

Reminds me of a problem I've seen when handling solo cups and fabric pots, they flex and disturb the soil. I've even seen a crack or fault line form, that can't be good for young roots! Next time I'll try setting the cups in pieces of PVC pipe or something.

 

[whitebb2727]

Reminds me of a problem I've seen when handling solo cups and fabric pots, they flex and disturb the soil. I've even seen a crack or fault line form, that can't be good for young roots! Next time I'll try setting the cups in pieces of PVC pipe or something.

Once they get going and have a good root system it doesn't hurt them as much or at all. It could actually help plants if the soil settles and starts to compact.