Help withseeds in rapid rooters.

[songbird420]

Greetings farmers. Its recently started a 10 pack of beans. After germination in paper towels they were placed in rapid rooters. Its my first time using the rooters, so i followed the directions. Its soaked them squeezed most moisture till all that was left was residual moisture and placed in tray with a layer of water a quarter-inch high from base of tray. Problem is the rooters are retaining too much moisture. Directions say to fill tray every 2"3 days but my tray still has the same moisture level i started with minus what was soaked by the rooters, which are not moist at this stage. They're WET. I've removed the water from the base to help them dry a bit, but i've already lost one bean to oversaturation. How do i stop this from happening again, reduce the amount of water to the base of tray. They're directions are a lil' confusing.First it says placed water at a quarter-inch depth, but then it says apply 16 ounces of water every two days. Well wut do i do if a quarter-inch depth exceeds 12 ounces?

 

[Gorrillagrower]

I would just watch the moisture in the rooters and only water when needed. Screw the water in the tray dude. Over watering is your worst enemy in this early stage

Good luck............GG

 

[twan]

yeah what he said sounds right to me bro. thats how i did mine came out fine

 

[kill-9]

I would just watch the moisture in the rooters and only water when needed. Screw the water in the tray dude. Over watering is your worst enemy in this early stage

Good luck............GG

I stick to peat pucks for higher germ success and leave the rooters for clones.

 

[Gorrillagrower]

I stick to peat pucks for higher germ success and leave the rooters for clones.

I use 8 oz plastic cups for my seedlings but as far as clones....Rapid rooters all the way.

 

[songbird420]

Thx a bunch for advice guys. If i'm not filling the tray how do i saturate them given that i want the roots to grow downward? Just dip 'em in water?

 

[Gorrillagrower]

The root is gonna grow downwards reguardless.The root will seek a path towards the dark. I dont think saturation is what your lookin for. Just moist will do fine my friend.

 

[TheMadHatter]

I just started 48 a few days ago and only 5 haven't started poping there heads up there about a inch or so above and stretching toward the light.

I put all 48 in 1 plastic cup in a dark spot 72f i think it was by then almost all of them have cracked a tiny bit.

Then I placed them in a paper towel for 21 hours at 80f(use a heat mat if needed) inside a mini dome.

They all had poped out of there shell about a 1/4 inch or so at witch point I soaked my rapid rooters in R/O water didnt ph it I think its 6.4 squezzed them out and break them kinda in half but not so they completely split so its easy to put the little guy inside there without hurting it.

Now I put them all back in the mini dome and I covered the rapid rooters with perlite and mist them every time you remember I did it like every few hours. Within 48 hours all but 4 or 5 have started growing. And I somehow lost a seed so I ended up with like 40 something so far hopeing the last few will germinate.

This is my first time starting seeds so I'm pretty happy anyway hope that helps

 

[darookie2000]

The guy at my hydro shop suggested filling the tray and draining it to wet the rooters. I'm going to try that next time.