Green newbie

[NoMorePharma]

I’m a serious green newbie and am not sure if I’m doing things right as I’m not able to locate the “step-by-step” guide book. I started my germ using White OG seeds on 1/26/21 in these 3” pots with an organic seeding soil which I use for my standard flower seeds I start yearly: no nutrients in it. I’m using standard LED grow lights ( again, that I use for growing all of my flower seeds), water is nutrient-free, but PH balanced & watered every 2-3 days based on soil dampness, light cycle is 18/6, and they are on seed heat mats ( this is extreme stealth as my room is on the side of house where a local cop visits neighbor).
There are 2 of these that I’m I find problematic, in my mind.
Can someone tell me if these look as they should for 12 day olds? What/when my next step?

 

[Bill284]

I’m a serious green newbie and am not sure if I’m doing things right as I’m not able to locate the “step-by-step” guide book. I started my germ using White OG seeds on 1/26/21 in these 3” pots with an organic seeding soil which I use for my standard flower seeds I start yearly: no nutrients in it. I’m using standard LED grow lights ( again, that I use for growing all of my flower seeds), water is nutrient-free, but PH balanced & watered every 2-3 days based on soil dampness, light cycle is 18/6, and they are on seed heat mats ( this is extreme stealth as my room is on the side of house where a local cop visits neighbor).
There are 2 of these that I’m I find problematic, in my mind.
Can someone tell me if these look as they should for 12 day olds? What/when my next step?

Welcome Nice garden.
Have you read @Emilya , guide to watering. Its good.
Do you have a stat on your heat mat.

 

[Greenraiza]

Gday bro suss out the grow bible on PDF drive to worth reading for beginners ul have it down pat in no time..

 

[SmokingWings]

Looks like an over watering situation. The plants look healthy and seem to be off to a good start. The soil looks wet but that could be because you just watered.

Any time the wooden stick starts to show the brown wet area above the soil like those in the photos then there is to much water in the soil on a regular basis. The sticks should only have water stains up to the soil line and not above.

Bill284 mentions reading Emilya's water guide. It will be a good step by step explanation of how to water. Set aside an hour of time and read it from the beginning to the end. That way you will get the gist of the watering methods at the beginning and then as the tread grows you pick up other tips and the slight changes to the method that were introduced over time.

Just by any chance are you in Michigan?

 

[013]

Hey Pharma,

The organic soil mix you are using looks like coco coir which is recycled coco husks. Yes coco coir is organic but it’s way different from soil and should be treated as a soil-less mix. Coco is inert meaning it has zero nutrients for your plants, plus coco grows are treated as drain to waste hydro so hydro ph rules apply meaning set the ph from 5.8 to 6.2, feed quarter strength nutes every day, do not let the medium dry out, no plain water ever, feed 1X per day to start but when the plants get big feed 2X per day and in flower feed 3X per day.

Anyway I could be wrong on the composition of your grow media but would advise you to figure out whether that’s coco or exactly what the grow media consists of. Do you still have the bag or packaging materials it came in?

 

[NoMorePharma]

Welcome Nice garden.
Have you read @Emilya , guide to watering. Its good.
Do you have a stat on your heat mat.

I don’t know who Emily think s and yea I’m using a heat mat. Can you link me to this Emily? Thanks

 

[NoMorePharma]

Looks like an over watering situation. The plants look healthy and seem to be off to a good start. The soil looks wet but that could be because you just watered.

Any time the wooden stick starts to show the brown wet area above the soil like those in the photos then there is to much water in the soil on a regular basis. The sticks should only have water stains up to the soil line and not above.

Bill284 mentions reading Emilya's water guide. It will be a good step by step explanation of how to water. Set aside an hour of time and read it from the beginning to the end. That way you will get the gist of the watering methods at the beginning and then as the tread grows you pick up other tips and the slight changes to the method that were introduced over time.

Just by any chance are you in Michigan?

I’m still not sure who this Emily person is, but would welcome a link. I don’t live in Michigan...a bit to the south & west; I’m the island state in the middle of ALL of the legal ones.

 

[NoMorePharma]

Gday bro suss out the grow bible on PDF drive to worth reading for beginners ul have it down pat in no time..

What “Suss grow bible”?

 

[013]

Emilyas watering guide is for soil grows, since you are in coco that changes everything. I added some coco info on your other post. It’s going to help you to keep all of your inquires in one single faq thread but you have 2 going (no harm since you are new) but your coco media isn’t meant for running the wet dry cycle... the rules are different for coco. Hyperlinks are in green text >> Emilya how to water <<<

 

[Bill284]

I’m still not sure who this Emily person is, but would welcome a link. I don’t live in Michigan...a bit to the south & west; I’m the island state in the middle of ALL of the legal ones.

Did you find the guide on how to water a potted plant.

 

[Greenraiza]

Nice plants by the way looking nice and green and healthy...ok so google pfd drive it will take you to books that you can temporarily download and read..there’s lots of good weed books but grow bible is the go for beginners thou it looks like bills got you sorted that guide will tell you what you need to now..

 

[SmokingWings]

Good catch on the coco, @013. I see what threw me off. In the first msg he says that he is using an "organic seeding soil" but in his other thread he shows a photo of the Burpee product which is mostly coco coir. As 013 is saying this changes how the potting mix is treated when it comes to watering. The soil-less mix in those little green pots is watered differently than if the mix was a natural soil. I think you will be OK for the seedling stage, especially if you used this starter mix before without a problem for your standard flower seeds.

From the Burpee web page for the product '@NoMorePharma' is using....

Burpee's organic seed starting mix is a pH-balanced, coir-based soil consisting of 80% sustainable organic coconut coir, vermiculite and a natural, nutrient-rich compost.

The reason I asked if you were in Michigan is that those 1 pint green pots came from a plant nursery in Battle Creek and usually those nurseries do not ship very far, sometimes not out of state.