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I have covered my bucket and lid completely with reflective tape and have shined a flashlight in there to make sure no light escapes - I am OK on that front. Why is a CFL light recomended instead of a HPS placed further away? In nature, when a seedling comes out of the ground, it is exposed to...

My seedling has finally broken through the surface of my rockwool cube (I had previously removed the hydroton layer on top of the cube, and plan on adding more rocks as the plant grows). My cube is still wet, and it getting splashed from underneath the netpot, so do you guys recommend I stop...

cool, thanks for contributing in this discussion! What I am understanding is that roots usually appear at the bottom of the rockwool cube BEFORE a sprout (cotyledons) is visible on top?? Can you confirm this?

... annnnnddd I took off the top layer of hydroton. Makes sense that without seeing my cube, I can't really gauge how wet/dry it is. What I did is that I placed a glass bowl over my netpot for the time being, and there is always condensation so its almost like if the cube was in a propagation...

Thanks for your reply! I understand your logic in that the plant benefits from an early exposure to light (makes sense, after all light is what drives photosynthesis). However, I can't help but think that when growing in soil the seedling has to first push through a certain amount of earth...

Hey everyone, first time poster here on RollItUp (used to post on another site that was shut down a while back). I have always grown in soil up to now and I have decided to make the switch to DWC, so I educated myself as much as I possibly could on the topic, built myself a 5 gallon bucket with...