Why the first two true leaves dying
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Three Berries
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It will be OK as long as you don't keep overwatering it. Do you have a stick in the dirt soil moisture meter?
And is there space below the pot so the water drains and it doesn't sit in water?
And is there space below the pot so the water drains and it doesn't sit in water?
Nope I don't have. When I dig into the soil with my finger it's pretty moisture. The surface around 2-3 cm depth it's dry. The pot has drain holes as normally.
Three Berries
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I usually keep mine pretty wet. But they are elevated so any excess water drains out.
My moisture meter has a 1-10 scale. I usually stick it in two spots and if it is anything under 10 water it. Depends on where it is as to how much water and how big the pot is. I'm with two gallon pots and a half gallon of water is usually what they get when the do need water. Flowering is about every other day depending on outside humidity. Veg is every day usually.
Using 3.5 gallon pots gives me more time in between watering.
I would be putting your seedling it in it'sfinal pot now.
My moisture meter has a 1-10 scale. I usually stick it in two spots and if it is anything under 10 water it. Depends on where it is as to how much water and how big the pot is. I'm with two gallon pots and a half gallon of water is usually what they get when the do need water. Flowering is about every other day depending on outside humidity. Veg is every day usually.
Using 3.5 gallon pots gives me more time in between watering.
I would be putting your seedling it in it'sfinal pot now.
Autodoctor
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I would let it dry out for 3-4 days and wouldn’t transplant until it’s healthy
Dry out completely?
Three Berries
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Are you using tap water?
If you let tap water sit out for 24 hrs the chlorine will evaporate out of it.
If you let tap water sit out for 24 hrs the chlorine will evaporate out of it.
Three Berries
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If you ask me it's already too dried out and not overwatered. I don't like plastic starter pots.
I'm using bottle water for now
Three Berries
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Is it reverse osmosis?
Around 7cm but it's not produce heat
I have no idea
Any solution?
myke
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Should grow out of it, pending whats the soil?
MustGro
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It doesn’t look overwatered to me and if it’s dry 2-3 cm under the surface it isn’t overwatered.
@myke might be right and the soil is a little warm. The first set of leaves burnt at the tips but the new growth didn’t so the plant got bigger and could use the nutes better.
Me, personally, I’m with @Rurumo . That little LED is close. I ran one just like that for cloning and kept it about a foot over the lights. You‘re not even 3 inches above it at 7cm. But the new growth looks good, not burnt, so I think the plant hardened off to the light.
I don’t see your new growth getting too green yet so the soil is probably ok. Not much you can do beside leach the nutes out of it anyway. Were the first set of leaves praying/reaching for the light? That‘d explain the burns on just the leaf tips.
You’re using regular bottled water right? Not mineral or spring.
@myke might be right and the soil is a little warm. The first set of leaves burnt at the tips but the new growth didn’t so the plant got bigger and could use the nutes better.
Me, personally, I’m with @Rurumo . That little LED is close. I ran one just like that for cloning and kept it about a foot over the lights. You‘re not even 3 inches above it at 7cm. But the new growth looks good, not burnt, so I think the plant hardened off to the light.
I don’t see your new growth getting too green yet so the soil is probably ok. Not much you can do beside leach the nutes out of it anyway. Were the first set of leaves praying/reaching for the light? That‘d explain the burns on just the leaf tips.
You’re using regular bottled water right? Not mineral or spring.
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Autodoctor
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not completely bone dry
Autodoctor
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if it’s a t5 bulb need to move to about 20cm