PurpleHaze777
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Hi,
I am a 1st-time grower.
I have seedlings that cracked 10 days ago. They have been in peat plugs inside a tray for ~8 days. I had been watering them with bottled poland spring water while inside the tray. I wasn’t testing poland spring’s pH.
Cotyledons Unfolded 7 days ago.
Roots showed up through the plug’s bottom ~4-5 days ago.
2 days ago I transferred them into 5 gal buckets and started feeding them botanicare grow nutes mixed into filtered tap water (not RO though). I also started testing the pH with a noobie liquid drop test kit (I don’t have $ for those $60-90 digital meters).
The buckets are empty, save for a thin layer of the drained runoff. I have been top watering them, as I read that the roots must reach through the basket before you start the bubble setup.
The seedlings stopped growing before I transferred them, and transferring+nutes doesn’t seem to help. Leaves have been curving down.Sprouts became pale.
Stems have been purple since ~5-6 days ago.
The girls are 2 feet away from Feit 240 w (true wattage from the wall) LED light (~400 w HID equivalent according to manufacturer).
Please help!
If I understand correctly, they should already have several sets of leaves.
I tried watering them less, I tried watering them more. Nothing is helping.
Four days ago:
(Fifth seedling died from what seems to be the damping-off fungus—it withered away thin stem with brownish root).
![142D5347-EFAE-4166-8FE0-34C93A035A43.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605940-ac56093e6fdf5a12e52e35b1cca67152.jpg)
Them now:
(Notice pale and curved leaves; no growth)
![B5E51228-41B4-4528-98CE-A7685EF6E848.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605943-1f658fcd931ddd25d7661c16bf4854fb.jpg)
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I am a 1st-time grower.
I have seedlings that cracked 10 days ago. They have been in peat plugs inside a tray for ~8 days. I had been watering them with bottled poland spring water while inside the tray. I wasn’t testing poland spring’s pH.
Cotyledons Unfolded 7 days ago.
Roots showed up through the plug’s bottom ~4-5 days ago.
2 days ago I transferred them into 5 gal buckets and started feeding them botanicare grow nutes mixed into filtered tap water (not RO though). I also started testing the pH with a noobie liquid drop test kit (I don’t have $ for those $60-90 digital meters).
The buckets are empty, save for a thin layer of the drained runoff. I have been top watering them, as I read that the roots must reach through the basket before you start the bubble setup.
The seedlings stopped growing before I transferred them, and transferring+nutes doesn’t seem to help. Leaves have been curving down.Sprouts became pale.
Stems have been purple since ~5-6 days ago.
The girls are 2 feet away from Feit 240 w (true wattage from the wall) LED light (~400 w HID equivalent according to manufacturer).
Please help!
If I understand correctly, they should already have several sets of leaves.
I tried watering them less, I tried watering them more. Nothing is helping.
Four days ago:
(Fifth seedling died from what seems to be the damping-off fungus—it withered away thin stem with brownish root).
![142D5347-EFAE-4166-8FE0-34C93A035A43.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605940-ac56093e6fdf5a12e52e35b1cca67152.jpg)
Them now:
(Notice pale and curved leaves; no growth)
![B5E51228-41B4-4528-98CE-A7685EF6E848.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605943-1f658fcd931ddd25d7661c16bf4854fb.jpg)
![985BDF41-316B-4968-8D91-78AB74553481.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605944-5ede9580734d3909f4f52db8ebef2722.jpg)
![51B259D9-01F9-45CD-B2D6-599E57EEF31B.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605945-6351bcdd56c30887760962064acc1d45.jpg)
![0B5F0528-9296-4607-B6AB-B320C8D84E9D.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605948-591ec7f9091f07b372d362152caf775b.jpg)
![5BE82094-3A1C-4010-A96D-F47A93CB7D2B.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605947-1c0a2f94287efa5b9237cc5445e1174f.jpg)
![D4AEEEC2-F7D6-4D22-BF58-330CC6922DCC.jpeg](/data/attachments/3605/3605946-ed337967a1327e274261bd9c37a81dcb.jpg)