My babies died :(

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dodobird

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Took some bagseed and germinated 4 seeds on Mar 22, planted them Mar 26th in PH 5.7 watered Pro Mix. Gave them 18 hours daylight and 6 hours night. They looked great and I anticipated some leaves to show today or tomorrow, but I took a closer look tonight and this is what i see....

What went wrong??

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scoregreen

scoregreen

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i leave my seeds in a damp bag with a paper towel in the dark for a few days until the root piece is a half inch or longer, then plant.
 
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dodobird

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scoregreen said:
i leave my seeds in a damp bag with a paper towel in the dark for a few days until the root piece is a half inch or longer, then plant.
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I did that...the roots were all like 1/2 inch long and beautiful and strong. Now they look all shriveled and wet.
 
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dodobird

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no i planted the white root down and i even sterilized the pots with boiling water before i put the pro-mix in and i sterilized a pair of tweezers and used the tweezers to transplant the seed into the soil and just covered it lightly with soil. like i said...everything looked good for the 1st week, but then they just weren't progressing anymore. do u think the soil was too wet maybe because there is some green fungi in the one pic?? I had cellophane covering the pots to create a humidity dome until the first leaves sprouted, but i never made it to that step unfortunately.
 
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GrowingNoob

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dodobird said:
no i planted the white root down and i even sterilized the pots with boiling water before i put the pro-mix in and i sterilized a pair of tweezers and used the tweezers to transplant the seed into the soil and just covered it lightly with soil. like i said...everything looked good for the 1st week, but then they just weren't progressing anymore. do u think the soil was too wet maybe because there is some green fungi in the one pic?? I had cellophane covering the pots to create a humidity dome until the first leaves sprouted, but i never made it to that step unfortunately.
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your shit got fucked up
 
joker152

joker152

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5.7 ph? what the hell kinda water were you giving it? your catch tray looks like you tried to make rock candy in it man! use distilled water next time you try to grow and dont water so much next time either, oh and mg soil is not good for most newbs either. better luck next time man.
 
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dodobird

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at least i don't put pics of my entire family on here...LOL this was my very first grow ever...trial and error buddy. next time will be a success, and just in time for summer. Cheers bud! :)
 
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dodobird

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thx Joker for the advice. i only watered the pots once which was in the beginning, but i still think it was too wet. should i put the seeds in rockwool cubes to start them out next time and then transplant into the soil??
 
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dodobird

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yeah it does suck. i've been doing some research while this post is going and I'm pretty sure i had ROOT ROT. which means too much water and not enough air for the plants. i kinda thought the soil was a little too wet when i put the seeds in. trial and error.
 
dahmnick

dahmnick

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you added the nutes to early in it's life you are supposed to wait 2-3 weeks after it breaks surface and has a set of leaves.

sorry man, better luck next time.
 
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mrmouse12

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hey dont worry everyone fails i started one and fried it to death... opps.. it does look like the soil was to wet at one point with that green stuff growing, the soil im growing with is called "seed starter" or something, i dont understand anything about nutes or really ph hopeffully i wont need to deal with it, but im using tap water i have a well though so may be different where u r good luck! just got to start again
 
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dodobird

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mrmouse12 said:
hey dont worry everyone fails i started one and fried it to death... opps.. it does look like the soil was to wet at one point with that green stuff growing, the soil im growing with is called "seed starter" or something, i dont understand anything about nutes or really ph hopeffully i wont need to deal with it, but im using tap water i have a well though so may be different where u r good luck! just got to start again
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yep i think ur right...too much water in the soil. i'm gonna start again right away...i actually just placed 6 seeds in some papertowel. hopefully by Mondy or Tuesday i can start again.
 
joker152

joker152

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dodobird said:
thx Joker for the advice. i only watered the pots once which was in the beginning, but i still think it was too wet. should i put the seeds in rockwool cubes to start them out next time and then transplant into the soil??
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rockwool works good, but i just use those little cardboard like things you get at walmart for starting seeds, i leave em in there until they come out of the ground an inch or so and then transplant to their final pots, if you want your first grow to be a success, dont use miracle grow, just get some organic stuff that isnt mg and you should be fine
 
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mrmouse12

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hope r germination went well!! im hopeing my 3 plants will break the soil soon 1 or two more days and ill see hope it goes well again oh i just thought of another thing that spill try did it fill up with water when u watered it / did u leave sitting water there cuz i dont think u want that overflow soaking back into the soil my fix to it is get some small rocks put those inside and put the potting jar on the rocks
 
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