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Yea it’s way to wet man just leave her be for a few days n she should push up outta that peat cubeThanks for the reply! Yes, this photo was taken just after giving it the hydrogen peroxide water.
I do think you're right that I have been keeping it too wet, I was / am just really afraid of letting it die of thirst! The peat pellet is in a tray with a drainage hole so it's not sitting in water, but I don't think I am letting it dry out enough and watering / misting with spray bottle too often. I'll leave it alone now for a few days. Thanks again!
Temperature hit 80º in the sun today this afternoon, is that too hot?
This is a vpd chart, it shows optimal temp and humidity ranges at each stage. VPD stands for vapor pressure deficit, which is basically the difference between how much moisture is in the air currently and how much moisture the air can hold. This is important because of transpiration, which is how the plant exhales water vapor through the leaves. The VPD effects how
well the plant is able to do this, and proper transpiration makes all processes in the plant run smoother. Proper environment is more than half the battle. 80 is not too hot, they like it hot rather than too cold, upper 70s and 80s. They need a dry period to allow oxygen back into the soil to be taken up by the roots, this is how they get oxygen to use in all thier processes. If it's too wet for too long, they suffocate and drown and eventually you get root rot. Too wet is worse than too dry because too dry is a way easier fix. When my girls are seedlings and in early veg in one gallon pots, they routinely go a week between waterings. All needs change over the plants life through the different stages. Plenty of knowledgeable folks here willing to help you on your journey!
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At this stage you want to keep humidity in the 60% - 70% range. 50% would be bare minimum for me. If you have a dome you can cover and spray the inside of the dome to keep humidity up but if not you can fill a spray bottle with water and spray mist the clones every few hours or whatever frequency it takes to keep the humidity up.Thank you!! I squeezed the pellet out, it was very wet, and moved it to fresh pod. Will also try to get humidity and temps up a little. I'm averaging around 50%, how much do you suggest it be?
oh bummerThanks for checking in! I was actually going to do an update today on my progress.
So let's start off with the bad news. That sprout that I posted above with the one cotyledon emerging didn't end up making it, as expected. I went poking around in the peat pellet to see what was going on after seeing no progress for days. The little tap root had gone to mush, the one cotyledon (no sign of the second one) had elongated itself and then just froze – it was hard and dense and dark green, like a bean. A sacrifice to the process, sadly, but seemed like it might have also been a dud seed.
In the meantime I've been working on my setup, as my environmentals are bad – a little too cold with too much temp fluctuation, and definitely my air is too dry. So I have a little ceramic heating element hooked up to an AC Infinity controller and that has fixed my temps. My little humidifier isn't up to the task though, even with it on 24/7 I can get my humidity up above 40% which as everyone else here knows is way too low esp. for seedlings and veg., so still sorting that out. I have a reptile tank humidifier on the way that has a hose that should direct the mist where it needs to go, it will also be running on the ACI controller.
In the meantime seed #3 is soldiering on through all this change which I am sure must be stressful. So I'm hopeful that with the humidity issue being fixed it will survive and make it to the next phase. Here's a photo from right now, planted 6 days ago:
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Hopefully I'll more progress and better news to report by the end of the week....
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