Seedling Bent Over in DWC Bucket

randybishop

Well-Known Member
Seedling bent over in DWC bucket.

I transferred from humidity dome to DWC three days ago.
Started with 5500K CLF bulb, went to LED when I transferred to DWC.
The leaves look green, but the stem looks weak.

This is what I am using:

- Rockwool/Hydroton in 3" net pot
- Lighthouse hydro blackstar 135 watt led (14" from plant)
- no nutes (put in DWC 3 days ago)
- 5.5 ph water

What are your thoughts?
 

gtran

Active Member
Do you have your light hanging directly above your plants? If not your plants will grow toward the light, for example if you had several cfl or other supplemental lighting on the sides of the plant then they are more likely to start to bend towards the light. If you have your light directly above then just GENTLY remove the seedling from the hydroton and bury it to the top so there is no more bend. If the plant is only a few days old then the roots wont be caught up in the hydroton and re planting should be easy.
 

randybishop

Well-Known Member
Thank you gtran!
I noticed tonight that the seedling leaves are turning yellow at the tips.
Are the roots getting too wet? Does it need nutes (it's 11 days old)?
 

Malevolence

New Member
I would give them 100 - 150ppm nutes. Make sure roots not drowning and not dying from thirst. Not too hot or too cold. No bullshit like superthrive. For future reference, you don't need to ph your water if not feeding nutes.
 
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