Siddhartha
Well-Known Member
Sorry but the first pics you posted are what I usually get 48 hours after cracking the seeds. The 3 week old pics are usually what I see in three days. I would like to wager a guess as to the cause for the difference if you don't mind a low number posting sticking his nose in.
First I think you were fine before you got any advice,.. that's early to be feeding, but now they're probably getting close to the time when you'd start with a really dilute solution anyway. If you didn't let your soil cook after mixing it up, the nutes in it aren't going to be that soluble for the plants, so it's not a bad idea to supplement them in the waterings, but that's more for clones or after a couple of nodes have formed. After mixing, i dribble some water with molasses on soil, and set it aside for a month at minimum. I stir it periodically to get air into it, and it get's really warm while fermenting. Composting generates a lot of warmth. I don't use nutes, except for fresh cuttings.
Anyway, back to the difference. MOST of the time, when I see someone who's plants have barely broken soil in two to three weeks, I figure it's because they planted too deep. Folks sometimes poke their finger into the soil and drop the seed in the bottom of it, cover it up and then sit back for days as it works it's way up through two to three inches of dirt before it finally breaks the surface. From my experience (I'm sure others differ, but my soil isn't the fluffiest), the freshly sprouted seedling grows a little over a cm a day through dirt. Perhaps faster depending on the denseness of the soil and temperature. If you're soil is 70 F or less, and your soil isn't loaded with vermiculite or something, it could take longer. I plant my sprouted seeds about 1 cm to 0.5 inches deep. They break the surface the next day(after one day) and are on their first true nodes the day after that. Depending on the strain, temps etc. for example the ones I just sprouted had two nodes four days after the seeds cracked.
Anyway,.. I was just thinking that could have been what you did. Not many posts on this site give actual planting the seed tips, so it seems to be a common newb error. And it's only an eror because it slows down your growth during the first few weeks. From here out they should take off, and I wouldn't worry about babbying it too much. That makes it too easy to overdo something.
So keep on keeping on, and I hope you have a problem free grow,..
First I think you were fine before you got any advice,.. that's early to be feeding, but now they're probably getting close to the time when you'd start with a really dilute solution anyway. If you didn't let your soil cook after mixing it up, the nutes in it aren't going to be that soluble for the plants, so it's not a bad idea to supplement them in the waterings, but that's more for clones or after a couple of nodes have formed. After mixing, i dribble some water with molasses on soil, and set it aside for a month at minimum. I stir it periodically to get air into it, and it get's really warm while fermenting. Composting generates a lot of warmth. I don't use nutes, except for fresh cuttings.
Anyway, back to the difference. MOST of the time, when I see someone who's plants have barely broken soil in two to three weeks, I figure it's because they planted too deep. Folks sometimes poke their finger into the soil and drop the seed in the bottom of it, cover it up and then sit back for days as it works it's way up through two to three inches of dirt before it finally breaks the surface. From my experience (I'm sure others differ, but my soil isn't the fluffiest), the freshly sprouted seedling grows a little over a cm a day through dirt. Perhaps faster depending on the denseness of the soil and temperature. If you're soil is 70 F or less, and your soil isn't loaded with vermiculite or something, it could take longer. I plant my sprouted seeds about 1 cm to 0.5 inches deep. They break the surface the next day(after one day) and are on their first true nodes the day after that. Depending on the strain, temps etc. for example the ones I just sprouted had two nodes four days after the seeds cracked.
Anyway,.. I was just thinking that could have been what you did. Not many posts on this site give actual planting the seed tips, so it seems to be a common newb error. And it's only an eror because it slows down your growth during the first few weeks. From here out they should take off, and I wouldn't worry about babbying it too much. That makes it too easy to overdo something.
So keep on keeping on, and I hope you have a problem free grow,..
