Hi guys,
my seedling is almost 5 days "old" or 4 days if we consider the beginning of her first day under the light as "Day zero". The problem is that it looks healthy but I really think it should have been bigger then it is.
Color is good, stem looks good. It didn't stretch because it's just 5 cm tall. She took less then 4 days from seed to seedling.
For germination I used coco pellet an then place the coco pellet in the final fiber pot(a home made smart pot) whit a mix of 33% peat moss 33% compost/humus 33% perlite/vermiculite. Temperature is around 23/24 °C humidity is 60%, there is a 4" fan to provide airflow and an inline fan that change the whole air of the grow room several times a minute. I'm only using bottled water since germination and I'm watering when soil feels less moist about 1 cm under the surface.
There are only two things that I can think about.
The first thing is that when I put the coco pellet in the final pot I decided to cut and throw away the "sock" that keep everything together. Doing so at some point the coco pellet kinda had a "land slide" half way up. The lower half slide about 1 cm than the upper part. Lesson learned; I will never do it again. Never. But that was day 0 and the next days I could see the cotyledons open and than the two first leaf growing...the first days looked normal.
If the problem was the accident during the transplant I think the seedling should have stun right then.
The second one could be the light. I'm using cheap led stripe from amazon. The led are 66% 6000K 33% 6500K for a total of 20 watt of real consumption but around 2250 real lumen. This should be the equivalent of a 130-150 watt incandescent light. I know it is not the best choice but this should be fine for only one plant in a 1x1 foot grow room. I had to chose something that could fit in the grow room and that can be kept really close to the plant because I have only 65 cm total in height not counting the pot and the carbon filter. It's around 35-40 cm of space for the plant.
Here she is from day 0(right after I took the seed shell off the cotyledons and transplant the coco pellet into the final pot) to today. One pics for every morning.
Today morning it "still" looks like this:
I can see the new leaves coming out, but as you can see the first two leaves are kinda curved...
Any advice?
my seedling is almost 5 days "old" or 4 days if we consider the beginning of her first day under the light as "Day zero". The problem is that it looks healthy but I really think it should have been bigger then it is.
Color is good, stem looks good. It didn't stretch because it's just 5 cm tall. She took less then 4 days from seed to seedling.
For germination I used coco pellet an then place the coco pellet in the final fiber pot(a home made smart pot) whit a mix of 33% peat moss 33% compost/humus 33% perlite/vermiculite. Temperature is around 23/24 °C humidity is 60%, there is a 4" fan to provide airflow and an inline fan that change the whole air of the grow room several times a minute. I'm only using bottled water since germination and I'm watering when soil feels less moist about 1 cm under the surface.
There are only two things that I can think about.
The first thing is that when I put the coco pellet in the final pot I decided to cut and throw away the "sock" that keep everything together. Doing so at some point the coco pellet kinda had a "land slide" half way up. The lower half slide about 1 cm than the upper part. Lesson learned; I will never do it again. Never. But that was day 0 and the next days I could see the cotyledons open and than the two first leaf growing...the first days looked normal.
If the problem was the accident during the transplant I think the seedling should have stun right then.
The second one could be the light. I'm using cheap led stripe from amazon. The led are 66% 6000K 33% 6500K for a total of 20 watt of real consumption but around 2250 real lumen. This should be the equivalent of a 130-150 watt incandescent light. I know it is not the best choice but this should be fine for only one plant in a 1x1 foot grow room. I had to chose something that could fit in the grow room and that can be kept really close to the plant because I have only 65 cm total in height not counting the pot and the carbon filter. It's around 35-40 cm of space for the plant.
Here she is from day 0(right after I took the seed shell off the cotyledons and transplant the coco pellet into the final pot) to today. One pics for every morning.
Today morning it "still" looks like this:
I can see the new leaves coming out, but as you can see the first two leaves are kinda curved...
Any advice?
Humidity could be raised to 70% btw but thats up to you
