Please help, Just Checked my plants and 2 of them are completely wilted over

My babies please recover bunny daddy loves u mamas
Exactly

I originally came here to say that your babies simply didn't have the roots yet to reach the water but after seeing the soaked rockwool, you're definitely drowning them.

A lot of growers have problems when they use two very different mediums like rockwool and hydroton. What I used to do when I ran that method was I made sure my rooting cube was above the level of the water and allowed it to completely dry out. I would water by hand for a few days until the roots reached the water on their own.

I would put those little plants on a brick or some other platform to try to get that cube to dry out.
They had just been watered before I took the picture. If they are getting too much, then why are the others thriving? They are all in a 1x1 cube of rockwool.

foliar feed
This is my first grow and I don't know the best method for this. What do you suggest?


Also, Do you think the glass has a point?
 

DeeTee

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My plants were sprouted in just abt the same size rockwool cubes and I've nver had problems with cubes being too soaked and I too use hydroton pebbles, 'course my system is more like a top feed that fills the pots and drains out after, you said you're stuck with a timere that only runs on 15 mins incraments, maybe you should convert it to a top feeding system to avoid drowning you roots.
 

BustinScales510

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Looks like they were kept too wet maybe, when seedlings or clones are soggy for too long they rot and die.Its called damping off,might have been that. Rockwool retains water for a while,it didnt happen to the others because theyre larger and go through water faster. Maybe next time wait a little longer before putting them in the hydroton pots. Also,how bright is that light,were they under that light for long before that happened? Sometimes if you put seedlings under high wattage before theyre ready they will slump over and die. Either way Id say those crumpled up ones you have are probably goners..sorry man :(
 

Destillat

Active Member
Your little ones are dying because their entire root system is still in that cube, unlike the larger ones. There is no dissolved oxygen in that root system. I would scrap em and start over personally, damaged plants in an interconnected system is just asking for problems
 

Destillat

Active Member
Your little ones are dying because their entire root system is still in that cube, unlike the larger ones. There is no dissolved oxygen in that root system. I would scrap em and start over personally, damaged plants in an interconnected system is just asking for problems
 

DeeTee

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There's nothing wrong with the use of fockwool cubes, I've been using them for yrs without any such problems, your problem is they sit in nutes too long, drowning them, my last sugestion is to buy a digital timer so you can set it for just one or two minutes feeding time, or time how long it takes to fill the pots full then set your timer to that setting.....that's the best I can advise.
 

Lucius Vorenus

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Exactly



They had just been watered before I took the picture. If they are getting too much, then why are the others thriving? They are all in a 1x1 cube of rockwool.



This is my first grow and I don't know the best method for this. What do you suggest?


Also, Do you think the glass has a point?
make a gallon of nutrients with about 250-300ppm veg nutes and spray that on the plant 3-4x week when lights are about to turn off
 
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