Advice on Seedlings (Pic included)

First time grower here, and I would like some advice.

Growing Blue Mystic Autos from Nirvana. I got a 2x2 grow tent with 2 small oscillating fans, 2 DWC DIY hydro boxes, 56 watt LED Blurple, and GH Trio for nutes.

Using gravel for one medium, small clay pellets for another. Both in Aeorgarden seed starter plugs.

Been keeping temp around 21-23 Cel and humidity around 50-60 percent.

I'm into about Day 6 since germination. Right now, I'm misting the seedlings with PH-tested water since they don't have the roots to get any water from the bubbler, which is just touching the bottom of the net pot. I did add 1/4 of recommended nutes into the res, but like I said, they have no roots to get the nutes. I literally spoonfed them a spoonful of water from the res, but I'm not sure if this is the right way to go about it since I've been reading not to give nutes until the 3rd node.

The one in gravel hasn't fully opened its cotyledons and it's slightly light green on the outer edge on one leaf. The one in clay pellets has a slight white tip. Other than that, they have straight stems and seem to be doing okay, but I was wondering if I could be doing anything to help them out better.

do you have something larger to lightup the plants wilst growing flowering

looks good to me, im growing in soil so i can't say much about your grow when the nuts comes in to play but in soil i just water for about 3 weeks and then started whit the nuts but very light at first.

go go kid said:

do you have something larger to lightup the plants wilst growing flowering

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I'm thinking about getting an 80watt LED bulb, so combined with what I got it should be about 136watts.

Minbebistillmax said:

looks good to me, im growing in soil so i can't say much about your grow when the nuts comes in to play but in soil i just water for about 3 weeks and then started whit the nuts but very light at first.

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Okay, thanks. I read the seed has nutrients/energy until it's 3rd node or so, but I've also been reading that small doses of nutes are essential in dwc. So idk.

shendomoto said:

Okay, thanks. I read the seed has nutrients/energy until it's 3rd node or so, but I've also been reading that small doses of nutes are essential in dwc. So idk.

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You always need nutrients in dwc....

shendomoto said:

Okay, thanks. I read the seed has nutrients/energy until it's 3rd node or so, but I've also been reading that small doses of nutes are essential in dwc. So idk.

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The seedling will have enough nutrients to shoot roots and start eating from external sources, you're correct. DWC does always need to have nutrients with a balanced ph but we're talking about Seedlings here. I've let seedlings sit in a bubbler cloner for a week with 10ppm water and the worst thing that happened is they turned a bit Yellow. Obviously as the plant grows you'll be plucking those leaves away or they'll be falling off anyhow. Your mission is really to just get the plant to veg at this point. They look good I would honestly continue misting occasionally and then make sure they have nutrients in the water for the roots to absorb once they form.

Cheers.

Red Eyed said:

You always need nutrients in dwc....

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Seedlings can go without nutrients for quite a while actually..

calvin.m16 said:

Seedlings can go without nutrients for quite a while actually..

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Agree...but still good to have at least something in the res.

The 3rd node thing is bollocks, to many variables to just say 3rd node. The plants wil let you know what they want when they want it.

calvin.m16 said:

The seedling will have enough nutrients to shoot roots and start eating from external sources, you're correct. DWC does always need to have nutrients with a balanced ph but we're talking about Seedlings here. I've let seedlings sit in a bubbler cloner for a week with 10ppm water and the worst thing that happened is they turned a bit Yellow. Obviously as the plant grows you'll be plucking those leaves away or they'll be falling off anyhow. Your mission is really to just get the plant to veg at this point. They look good I would honestly continue misting occasionally and then make sure they have nutrients in the water for the roots to absorb once they form.

Cheers.

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All right, thanks for the advice!

Red Eyed said:

Agree...but still good to have at least something in the res.

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I do have nutes in the res, but no roots to take advantage of the nutes. Do you think I should occasionally top feed the plug or medium with a spoonful from res water?

19-Sean-86 said:

The 3rd node thing is bollocks, to many variables to just say 3rd node. The plants wil let you know what they want when they want it.

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Okay, thanks. Do you think my plants look okay? Anything I should look out for? Should I top feed a little from the nuted res?

shendomoto said:

I do have nutes in the res, but no roots to take advantage of the nutes. Do you think I should occasionally top feed the plug or medium with a spoonful from res water?

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Either that or set the res water high enough so that the water kind of splashes up to make it wet enough until the roots catch up.

I normally kept them just in a plug or rockwool in a tray under a T5 until the roots were long enough for the res.

shendomoto said:

Okay, thanks. Do you think my plants look okay? Anything I should look out for? Should I top feed a little from the nuted res?

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Your plant looks ok pics a bit blurry the leaf tips look slightly nute burned. I'm growing auto's currently, I gave first feed at 3 weeks and the plants wasn't happy about it got slight tip burn so I've watered plain since as obviously wasn't ready for nutes. If I had been feeding since 3rd node they would be in a bad way.

Red Eyed said:

Either that or set the res water high enough so that the water kind of splashes up to make it wet enough until the roots catch up.

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All right, thanks for the advice.

19-Sean-86 said:

Your plant looks ok pics a bit blurry the leaf tips look slightly nute burned. I'm growing auto's currently, I gave first feed at 3 weeks and the plants wasn't happy about it got slight tip burn so I've watered plain since as obviously wasn't ready for nutes. If I had been feeding since 3rd node they would be in a bad way.

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Yes, I was afraid they might not be ready for nutes. The tip did have me a bit worried. I don't think my lights are strong enough for it to be light bleaching. So even at 3 weeks, you are feeding just plain water?