Aqua Man
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fair enough i tried but sometimes you just need to do what you need to do. You cant water a seedling in a plug daily until the roots are that established.… no different than if you water them daily before putting them in the system…. The point is they should no go into the system until they can handle that…. No matter what others can do.Maybe I am rushing, but again - I'm seeing people starting tiny seedlings out in their netpots with no issues. If they can do it successfully without issue, why are mine failing when I try? I see so many posts of people with 2 week old plants that are a tiny little bush, vibrant, huge, and green - and here I am after a month with yellowing 1" plants that are wilting.
I'm absolutely convinced going back to rooters is going to just lead to more failure. I'll top feed them, they'll drown, and that'll be the end of it. I played that game for the last 6 months and that was the result every single time. I started with rockwool, went to rooters. I had less damping off when I went to rooters than I did with rockwool, but the rooters were still staying too wet and root rot was still setting in.
I don't understand how people are top feeding rooters/rockwool without causing drowning/damping off issues. Sure, I see people do it, just like I mentioned about the guy literally having a 24/7 stream pouring onto his rockwool. I sit there with a little dripper and put 1-2ml of water around the edge of my hydroton or cube and wham - they drown.
once you put them into the system they need to be able to handle being saturated as all the humid air will come up through the hydroton.
But like i say.… sometimes pol beed to figure thing’s out on their own. But eventually you will come to this conclusion on your own