Need help with soil

Sjj

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Hey everyone, I recently started my first grow so excuse me for my noob mistakes.
I am planning on growing 4 plants in 20 litre fabric pots in a 120x120 under the MIGRO aray 8 LED. Unfortunately the light was delayed abit in shipping and I had to plant my 4 seeds In 4 10 litre plastic pots that I had.
My plan is to try and have them on the roof. 20+ degrees celsius during the day, humidity is around 75-85%. They were going to be placed in the tent but I’d rather have them in a pot and outside on the roof than throwing them away, since I was pretty impatient and started germinating before I had my LED..
I have 4 more seeds for my tent though (gorilla punch and pineapple express x2 by fastbuds). The ones i germinated were rdy after 24hours but I kept them in the towel paper bags for 24 hours hoping id get the led in time, but I didn’t so i decided to go with the 10l plastic pots and let them outside during the day and keep them inside at night for now because temps drop as low as 9-10 celsius.
I had biobuzz allmix + lightmix for my tent grow, however i went and bought cannapro and filled the pots with it, all at once because i was just dumb and forgot that Theres a better way of doing it, at least i learned for my proper grow.
i added cannapro and light mix in the middle and watered with 1.1 litres which is probably too much because the soil still feels wet 2cm in and I didn’t water yet just trying to give it time to dry up abit.
Did I add too much water? I only waited for 10 hours prior to planting because my roots were too long and 2 of them had already turned yellow.. so I kind of panicked that my seed was dead and planted it in the wet soil.
I also didn’t make holes in my pots. I guess doing it now wouldn’t be a problem?
Could I carefully take the plant out and try to mix the soil thoroughly with the one thats dried abit? Or am i better off leaving it as it is and just giving it time to dry.
Thank you!
 

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bam0813

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Imo you got nothing to lose. Id fill a small container like a solo cup WITH drain holes and use a big spoon to scoops out that seedling and transfer. Cold and wet with little light is a death sentence
 

bam0813

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Hold on there is dry dirt in the top half? Get holes in the pot and keep it warm as possible with as much light as possible. Maybe better than trying to stress it more
 

bam0813

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If there’s plenty of dry under the tap you may want to literally give it a few drops so tap isnt in bone dry
 

Sjj

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Thank you! Appreciate it
Its currently 27c~ 80f in the room. They had around 3 hours of sun cus it was cold today for some reason but from tomorrow its gonna be 20+ and sunny.
So do you suggest I should dig them out with a large spoon mix the soil abit and then put them back in? Or is that soil fucked? I think i just overwatered before planting the seed and now the top dries out but 3 cm deeper its still super wet
 

Sjj

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Humidity is between 70-75% they get some fresh air from a window close to them. Humidity outside 85%
 

drumrol

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I would put some holes in the cups and let them dry out. Get a single grow light bulb/Fluorescent to keep light on these small kids. They need lots of light 18 - 24 hours for a while until they take off. Watering is tough - has to be enough but not too much. You'll get it.
 

Sjj

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I moved them to clear cups with some tape around them. All stores are closed atm so they will have to stay under darkness for tonight unfortunately. Tomorrow is going to be sunny outside and I could just take them out for the day and try to find a grow led bulb.

about the migro light I ordered it on 9th of april and dpd claimed 3-7 days for delivery. On 16th I decided to put them in plastic bags with some paper towel and 48 hours later the roots were turning yellow already.
the led should be with me on the 22nd of april but I have 4 more plastic 20 litre bags with 4 seeds that I will not germinate till I get the led..
the 4 seeds on the picture are already transplanted. I mixed the soil from the 10 litre pots in a big bag because it was very dry in the bottom. I soaked it in too much water the first time however the temperatures here are high and its probably gonna be dry in 2 days. Should I just wait now and keep these 4 misfortunste seeds in the small cups until they have developed roots or should I just wait abit for my soil to be dry and move them back into their final pots asap?
thank you
 

hotrodharley

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I moved them to clear cups with some tape around them. All stores are closed atm so they will have to stay under darkness for tonight unfortunately. Tomorrow is going to be sunny outside and I could just take them out for the day and try to find a grow led bulb.

about the migro light I ordered it on 9th of april and dpd claimed 3-7 days for delivery. On 16th I decided to put them in plastic bags with some paper towel and 48 hours later the roots were turning yellow already.
the led should be with me on the 22nd of april but I have 4 more plastic 20 litre bags with 4 seeds that I will not germinate till I get the led..
the 4 seeds on the picture are already transplanted. I mixed the soil from the 10 litre pots in a big bag because it was very dry in the bottom. I soaked it in too much water the first time however the temperatures here are high and its probably gonna be dry in 2 days. Should I just wait now and keep these 4 misfortunste seeds in the small cups until they have developed roots or should I just wait abit for my soil to be dry and move them back into their final pots asap?
thank you
Let them ride. So long as they’re getting light. If they stretch just bury the long stem on transplant.
 

Sjj

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Thank you for replying, I got the LED delivered yday after the carrier tried to keep it until after the holidays (26.04) but I argued with them and managed to pick it up “earlier”.
I have it running at the lowest atm
Should I keep the seeds in the plastic cups for a couple of more days or could I transplant them back into their final 10L pots now?
I started adding handfuls of my overly saturated soil to the 10l pots and its dried out abit (i didnt let it get completely dry) but it got better over 2 or 3 days.
 

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