rmx
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Hey all,
My seedling is about a week old. Despite a promising start, it now seems that only the stem wants to grow. The initial 4 leafs are open, with the rounded leafs being larger than the pointy leafs. The pointy leafs don't seem to want to grow any more. the stem is currently 6cm tall, give or take a mm or two.
It seems the stem is stretching and not much else is happening, although the seedling looks in good condition with nice green colouring, a waxy leaf appearance and very fine bristly white hairs on the steam and leaf.
Here's a terrible MSPaint representation of my seedling, as I don't have a camera at the moment:
I have a new light coming in about 6 days, but I think that's still plenty of time to damage the seedling if it continues to grow this way. So for 6 days I'll be without a decent growing light.
I'm thinking of gently transplanting my seedling to a fresh pot of soil and burying about 2-3cm of the stem in the new soil. Then I'll place it in a gently heated propagator and just use daylight to grow it whilst I wait for my new grow light to arrive.
I'm paranoid as this is my first grow and I only managed to acquire 1 seed, which sprouted to the seedling in question - so I din't want to mess this up. Does this seem a good solution?
Edit: I decided to just go ahead and replant the seedling and buried approx. 2cm of the stem in the new pot. Stupidly, I think I might have ripped some root threads which can't be good - didn't realise that such a small and delicate seedling would have such a strong root network going on. Here's hoping it pulls through and no stem rot occurs.
My seedling is about a week old. Despite a promising start, it now seems that only the stem wants to grow. The initial 4 leafs are open, with the rounded leafs being larger than the pointy leafs. The pointy leafs don't seem to want to grow any more. the stem is currently 6cm tall, give or take a mm or two.
It seems the stem is stretching and not much else is happening, although the seedling looks in good condition with nice green colouring, a waxy leaf appearance and very fine bristly white hairs on the steam and leaf.
Here's a terrible MSPaint representation of my seedling, as I don't have a camera at the moment:
I have a new light coming in about 6 days, but I think that's still plenty of time to damage the seedling if it continues to grow this way. So for 6 days I'll be without a decent growing light.
I'm thinking of gently transplanting my seedling to a fresh pot of soil and burying about 2-3cm of the stem in the new soil. Then I'll place it in a gently heated propagator and just use daylight to grow it whilst I wait for my new grow light to arrive.
I'm paranoid as this is my first grow and I only managed to acquire 1 seed, which sprouted to the seedling in question - so I din't want to mess this up. Does this seem a good solution?
Edit: I decided to just go ahead and replant the seedling and buried approx. 2cm of the stem in the new pot. Stupidly, I think I might have ripped some root threads which can't be good - didn't realise that such a small and delicate seedling would have such a strong root network going on. Here's hoping it pulls through and no stem rot occurs.