Are my lil guys n girls shocked?

merahoon

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I have 14 seedlings and I transplanted them their 7th day after sprouting.

They had their first set of leaves after the cotyledon pair when I transplanted. I transplanted them in jiffy pots to 5gl buckets full of fox farms soil mixed with perlite.

Their underneath a 400w MH 18/6 and I have not seen any progress for almost 3 days now.

I've been doing research and couldn't find the answer but are my plants in total shock right now or what?

Please let me know what you think, caues this is my first indoor grow and I'm not sure what to expect besides what I've read.
 

merahoon

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For some reason the website is not allowing me to post.. but I have no idea why. Anyhow, if you could please try and imagine what I describe so you could possibly be able to help me out. After a week of sprouting my seedlings came to a hault on growth. They had just started to get their second pair of true leaves and still had the cotyledons on. I trasplanted after a week and thats when they stopped. At first my temps got as low as 50 at night and were sometimes 60-65 during the day for the first two days. I fixed the problem and now keep the temps around 70-85 during the day and 65-70 during the dark pariod. My fan exhausts 15 min on, 15 min off through passive intake. I would change the timing but its a hydrofarm timer and thats all it allows. Anyhow, there is one plant that is starting to grow out a lil bit. The second pair of true leaves are starting to fill out and stretch out a bit but its still moving slowly. The others... well they look like they almost stopped. The color of the leefs are a nice green, big fat indica leaves, and look actually really healthy. I can't figure out what they heck is wrong!!!! Please! try and give me a hand!
 

1kooguy

New Member
Well if there 7 days old,their mostly growing roots rite now.Next time give them a lil superthrive before transplant,and transplant at night.fast veg.starts when the plants at least 1 month old,from seed.
 

merahoon

Well-Known Member
Ok, so this is common? I did transplant them at night luckily. They had about an hour of light left and then went to sleep for 6 hours.
 

clowdy

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hey try keeping the lights on all the time
and ya it could be in a little shock
cuase sunday mine turned 1 week old
and i got a buch of leaves
but a few days before 1 week old i had them in a small ass plastic pot
so it would dry up way to quick and then it stoped growing as much and drooped a little
and i didnt water alot only when needed so when was dry the next day i took it out to look at the roots and they were at the bottom and sides all around the soil so i went and transplanted it so it has more room to grow so the leafs were still drooping so i though something was wrong too but now they are lifting up more and from what i can tell its from the shock of transplanting just give it time to recover
 

PaY uP SuCkA

Active Member
as long as they look healthy and you are staying on top of your checklist making sure everything is well balanced, they may be recovering.
they will let u know if they are sick and if they are looking healthy and still growing and improving even the slightest bit, i wouldnt worry too much.
once i had a plant that went into kinda 'shock' from a transplant, it was pretty young and it stopped growing for 2-3 days looking good and started to die. I chopped half of a set of leaves off, made sure everything was balanced and raised the temp to about 80-85 constant and it recovered and was back to normal in less than 1-2 weeks.
 

merahoon

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I'm not about to run a 400w for 2 months with no progress. I'd rather toss these, buy some clones and get those going and consider this a loss if its going to take that long. The one I said that is making progress grew some more last night but the lil guys are still making BARELY any progress if any. I water them about every other day... Will switching the lights to 24 now shock my plants too or will it mess up photosynthesis?
 

clowdy

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ya do that 24 hours and even if u do go out and get some clones dont throw those ones away keep them they will start growing
and buy time ur clones get rooted they prolly already start growing
 
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