Water them with enough water to last them one day, everyday.
How long do you leave your domes on? I don't even use them anymore with my seedlings because I get better results domeless. Looks like his plants need to dry out to me. At 3 weeks old, if still using a done, its time to gently coax them out of it and into the real atmosphere. I like what you say about letting the plants breath; I feel the need to add that the domeless time needs to be increased daily until the dome is no longer needed.
Are you saying it's better to put a layer of perlite mixed with soil at the bottom? Yea what I did was put a layer of straight perlite at the bottom and then I mixed my soil with roughly 30% perlite. Is this bad?
Sorry to confuse. I don't use a layer of perlite at the bottom of the pot anymore.
Looking at all the advice given in this thread, it's all pretty good, but I can see the possibility of confusion because people are giving advice fr different points of view. Seems everyone agrees that you were overwatering. You will get it down. There are many paths to the same destination. Some people keep their medium moist the whole time and never allow runoff. Some people saturate their pots to the point where water runs out the bottom of the pot. Also you could give a light foliar of kelp and humic acids to help it out of the slump.
Lol at whoeve is negative repping me for stating my experiences to help guide this guy to his own decision and to further learning. I won't say my method is the best but I have grown out many seeds, any one that thinks they know what's best in every scenario certainly needs to check their ego.
I found this picture of a rootbound plant online.
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Sorry your getting bad rep man, you helped more than most the people on this thread. I've only known a couple people that have used humic acid or kelp but i've heard good things! Do you use fulvic acid too? I've heard fulvic acid is a good bio stimulant as well.
Haha thanks man, it's cool. Some are so far behind in the race they think they are ahead! And they think they need to negative rep me to show what they think is they way to go. They should Quote me and prove me wrong, otherwise keep it constructive.
Anywho, the fulvic/humic combo seems to be the way to go. When I have plants in a funk, I have noticed a light kelp and humic foliar helps out. Have you seen the YouTube video of fulvic acid and what it does to green tea bag in cold water?
alaw989- That plant looks recovered. Now she needs food.
The second picture looks good. I cant tell whats going on in the first one. I always put my seedlings directly under light. A dark period does not seem to help in any way. I would leave it alone and not overwater. Keep your root temps in check along with the air temperature...
First off I'd like to thank all of your for the incredibly helpful advice on my first rodeo.
Now for another update:
She seems to be loving her new home. There has been a huge growth spurt since the transplant. Here's a pic.
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Now for another problem.
I have 2 seedlings that I'm worried about. One has broken ground and the other is right at the surface, but they have been this way for like 3 days. I germinated using the paper towel. Waited for the taproots to show, then dropped them 1/4 into the FFOF, put some domes over them, wet the soil thoroughly and put them in the dark. I let them stay in the dark for a couple days then moved them to my grow box and took the domes off because one had sprouted and the other one you could see was getting ready to break soil. Here's pics:
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Any ideas? I've been just leaving them alone because I don't want to kill them by poking at them. Should I try to take the shell off the one?