why is my seedling doing this

lambokid

lambokid

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19-Sean-86 said:
@lambokid your plant is underwatered it's drooping and it's a very light green colour this is classic symptoms of not enough water. Google it you will see.
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overwatered and underwatered symptoms are very similar i repotted yesterday because the coco was saturated now I know coco is constantly meant to be constantly wet but I feel it was staying pretty soaked with a 20% run off
 
19-Sean-86

19-Sean-86

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lambokid said:
overwatered and underwatered symptoms are very similar i repotted yesterday because the coco was saturated now I know coco is constantly meant to be constantly wet but I feel it was staying pretty soaked with a 20% run off
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How much water have you been giving and how often?
 
lambokid

lambokid

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19-Sean-86 said:
How much water have you been giving and how often?
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so I originally had it in this a home made pot lol I drilled 5 biggish holes in bottom for drainage I was making up 1L feed and water mix and using about 200ml/300ml of it and throwing the rest away and was doing that daily but using 200ml/300ml was the only way I was getting run off and the run off was filling this lid
 

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westcoast420

westcoast420

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19-Sean-86 said:
@lambokid your plant is underwatered it's drooping and it's a very light green colour this is classic symptoms of not enough water. Google it you will see.
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He already said he put dry coco on the surface, hence why it looks dry. Those are overwatered, a plant that small isnt taking up much on a daily basis and he said hes soaking it daily.
 
19-Sean-86

19-Sean-86

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It doesn't look stretched in the photo you uploaded, seedlings can't handle intense light. If I was you I'd have the light between 24/36 inches. Especially if your using hps and it has a reflector then 36 inches. The plant needs to establish itself before it can take any intense of anything. Water little and often maybe even 4 times daily with small amount just around the width of the leaves and give low amount of nutes each watering as your in Coco.
 
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EricHansen

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it's over watered and your humidity is too low. try and raise your humidity to about 50 or 60% and let that coco dry out.
 
lambokid

lambokid

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19-Sean-86 said:
It doesn't look stretched in the photo you uploaded, seedlings can't handle intense light. If I was you I'd have the light between 24/36 inches. Especially if your using hps and it has a reflector then 36 inches. The plant needs to establish itself before it can take any intense of anything. Water little and often maybe even 4 times daily with small amount just around the width of the leaves and give low amount of nutes each watering as your in Coco.
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it was really stretched I just re potted and covered the stretch with coco so should I not worry about run off for the moment then
 
lambokid

lambokid

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19-Sean-86 said:
It's a seedling in a big pot if you water to run off then you'd definitely be overwatering.
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I only repotted into that yesterday because of how saturated it looked repotting it i thought it would spread the waterload i watered in the little pot and it took a turn for the worse so I repotted into the bigger pot thinking the water would spread and I havent watered yet since its been in the big pot
 
19-Sean-86

19-Sean-86

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lambokid said:
I only repotted into that yesterday because of how saturated it looked repotting it i thought it would spread the waterload i watered in the little pot and it took a turn for the worse so I repotted into the bigger pot thinking the water would spread and I havent watered yet since its been in the big pot
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Seedlings need very little amounts of water until the roots are established. With my plants I spray water them for first couple weeks. I showed you my current plants at day 24 today only twice since two weeks have I soaked the soil completely and wait 3/4 days to water again. As your in coco it's different you need to water little and often, your plant is not ready to be soaked or watered until run off. As I said I was just spraying the soil at your plants size less is more at this stage.
 
lambokid

lambokid

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19-Sean-86 said:
Seedlings need very little amounts of water until the roots are established. With my plants I spray water them for first couple weeks. I showed you my current plants at day 24 today only twice since two weeks have I soaked the soil completely and wait 3/4 days to water again. As your in coco it's different you need to water little and often, your plant is not ready to be soaked or watered until run off. As I said I was just spraying the soil at your plants size less is more at this stage.
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ok thank you for your help
 
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