Help with my pale seedling

[6Newbie9]

Does this look like overwatering? There are adequate drainage holes in the Dixie cup. This is at

7 days

 

[Eledin]

Might be, depends if it always looks like that or you just watered. It either overwatering or the light too close but considering you had to use support because it stretched I dont think its the light. If your heart tells you overwatering youre probably overwatering and there's not much else that can cause that at this stage. A closer pic would help. What medium?

 

[6Newbie9]

Cocoa/perlite mix. Growing in a Vivosun Grow Box so light is at fixed height. Watered yesterday until water was coming out of Dixie Cup

 

[MEGA956]

I use a low wattage light for starting my seedling

 

[RGWD0202]

Cocoa/perlite mix. Growing in a Vivosun Grow Box so light is at fixed height. Watered yesterday until water was coming out of Dixie Cup

Overwatered

 

[RGWD0202]

Also, if you are supporting the seedling with that pipe cleaner you also don’t have enough light. It stretched to fast looking for light, causing it to get top heavy and fall over.

 

[amneziaHaze]

What nutes are you using for coco?
@Florida_Mike

Lift the plant if light is fixed its stretching

 

[RGWD0202]

Seedlings take water in through the leaves until the roots get strong enough to pull the water in. Make sure humidity is 60%+ and you just want to keep the top couple inches damp until it’s able to pull water with the roots

 

[Florida_Mike]

What nutes are you using for coco?
@Florida_Mike

Lift the plant if light is fixed its stretching

Greenleaf Megacrop 1 part and supplements

 

[6Newbie9]

What nutes are you using for coco?
@Florida_Mike

Lift the plant if light is fixed its stretching

I haven't introduced any nutes yet since it is only a week old

 

[6Newbie9]

Also, if you are supporting the seedling with that pipe cleaner you also don’t have enough light. It stretched to fast looking for light, causing it to get top heavy and fall over.

It wasn't totally falling over but leaning and I figured I was helping by propping it up. Not sure it really needed it and could prevent it from developing a stronger stem, am I wrong?

 

[Ninjadogma]

Good day, grower! Your seedling is likely sitting in too much water. High water means low oxygen. You can get them good and wet when you water but they like intermittent wet and dry cycles best.

Also, don't prop your babies. You know that funny thing with cars where if you start sliding in a turn the way out of it is to turn your wheels the opposite way? Well, it's like that with weak stemmed plants. If you want to strengthen your stem, put a little fan in there, let it dangle in the breeze. It will strengthen the stem for you.

Best of luck and keep us posted with pics as it matures!

 

[amneziaHaze]

Coco usually has 0 nutes in it.

 

[MileHiGhost]

Not a soil guy, although I had an issue like that awhile back. I drilled small holes into a reusable plastic straws an placed them all around the container. Give the soil some much needed ventilation. It saved my plant.. These grower's here have decades of XP.
Hope my idea helps you dry it out a bit. O2 is the key. I am DWC with massive air pumping into my bucket's. That's why hydro is fer me. I am a control freak. When something is off I can dump an refill. When the roots live in water I never have to worry about over watering..
Good luck an stick with it!!

 

[josefrahl]

Are you using the growpilot app for the vgrow?

 

[Eledin]

What brand of coco are you using? Some hare more EC (nutes) than others but here where I live they are at least buffered for optimum calcium intake and with a bit of nutes, except for biobizz coco I believe which is calibrated for calcium but very low on EC.

 

[6Newbie9]

Are you using the growpilot app for the vgrow?

I just programmed all of the parameters into it but did not use the pilot

 

[6Newbie9]

What brand of coco are you using? Some hare more EC (nutes) than others but here where I live they are at least buffered for optimum calcium intake and with a bit of nutes, except for biobizz coco I believe which is calibrated for calcium but very low on EC.

Bought off Amazon. I'm totally new to all of this stuff and didn't realize I was supposed to soak the cocoa in cal mag to buffer it before using it. Is that correct?

 

[stanknkatz]

Even when it' wet, coco retains a lot of oxygen, and coco is a hydro medium and it's almost impossible to over water.
This page I'm posting on seedlings in coco might be of some use to you. Loads of good information on that site about growing in coco. Yeah coco should be buffered with cal mag. You can start adding it to your fertigation schedule. Coco has no nutes in it, so fertigating is important, start with a low dose with seedlings and gradually work your way up as the plant matures.

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[WinJr63]

It wasn't totally falling over but leaning and I figured I was helping by propping it up. Not sure it really needed it and could prevent it from developing a stronger stem, am I wrong?

Pack more soil up on stem.