Ono Nadagin
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Anyone have any tricks to keep young seedlings stems from dehydrating when you take them out of a humidity dome/tray?
I am about 2 yrs into hydro growing, many years of outdoor backing that....
About a year ago I started using a humidity tray/dome and Rapid Rooters to germ seeds where as before it was strickly dirt and a plastic cup... I use the dome/tray to keep the Rapid Rooters from drying out...wich when it happens is instant death for the seedling if it has germed.
The problem I am having is once a seed germs and breaks the surface of the rapid rooter I am usually at work of somewhere other than my garden
this means they have anywhere from 6-8hrs to 24 hrs before I can check back in on them to see if any have germed and surfaced.
It allows the plant to use its endosperm to push roots down and allow the main stem to grow a bit.....
It isnt until the 1st true set of leaves that a plant will grow stretch towards the light however they will point themselves at it... so it is not a 'lights not close enough' situation.
They just have a built in amount of growwth upward and roots downward due to the fuel provided by the endoserm
And this upward growth in the humidity dome/tray is where my problems lie, when I return to the grow I find some have germed and remove them from the dome/tray and pace them in the grow medea that suits my plans for said seedling(netpots and expanded clay or a cloning machine or possibly dirt
And upon removing them from the humidity some will have their stem dehydrate almost instantly....
The best method of stopping this dehydration seems to be to transplant deeply into dirt(up to Cot leaves) but even this seemes not to stop the dehydration of the seedling stem on all
Anyone have a trick or technique that may solve this little annoyance I am encountering?
I am about 2 yrs into hydro growing, many years of outdoor backing that....
About a year ago I started using a humidity tray/dome and Rapid Rooters to germ seeds where as before it was strickly dirt and a plastic cup... I use the dome/tray to keep the Rapid Rooters from drying out...wich when it happens is instant death for the seedling if it has germed.
The problem I am having is once a seed germs and breaks the surface of the rapid rooter I am usually at work of somewhere other than my garden
this means they have anywhere from 6-8hrs to 24 hrs before I can check back in on them to see if any have germed and surfaced.
It allows the plant to use its endosperm to push roots down and allow the main stem to grow a bit.....
It isnt until the 1st true set of leaves that a plant will grow stretch towards the light however they will point themselves at it... so it is not a 'lights not close enough' situation.
They just have a built in amount of growwth upward and roots downward due to the fuel provided by the endoserm
And this upward growth in the humidity dome/tray is where my problems lie, when I return to the grow I find some have germed and remove them from the dome/tray and pace them in the grow medea that suits my plans for said seedling(netpots and expanded clay or a cloning machine or possibly dirt
And upon removing them from the humidity some will have their stem dehydrate almost instantly....
The best method of stopping this dehydration seems to be to transplant deeply into dirt(up to Cot leaves) but even this seemes not to stop the dehydration of the seedling stem on all
Anyone have a trick or technique that may solve this little annoyance I am encountering?
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