This week, the sprouts that were started in Jiffy pellets were planted into 3" pots using Mother Earth coco/perlite blend. They were potted a little deeper than they were in the pellet, so they look like they did not get much taller. They almost immediately produced a new pair leaves, which is their second set of true leaves (after the cotyledons) and their first set of three-fingered leaves. Now, they are seedlings!
I wetted the coco first, because it is several months old and so dry that it could be hydrophobic. I used the same water I'd been spraying the sprouts with, that had a very light dose of General Hydroponics FloraGrow in it, because of concerns that if the dose were any higher, the seedlings could get burned. Because the coco was moist, the seedlings didn't need watering until today. That was long enough for a couple of the seedlings to start showing early signs of deficiencies. Starting with today's watering, and for the following week, I'll be increasing the nutrient dosage to week 2 of vegetation levels.
I feed half strength of the dosage that GH recommends, which was recommended by several sources. Today only, due to the pale leaves, I did add 100% of the FloraGrow dosage. I will consider doing that again during the following week.
Water got onto a few leaves when I was spraying the sprouts, and caused the spots on the leaves. If I am not really careful when watering and accidentally splash any onto the leaves, it leaves spots like this when under the lights. My watering can starts pouring from rather high above the plants when it is full and it tends to splash.
It's easy for me to forget how little water the seedlings need, so I don't need to fill the can all the way. I could avoid this by being more careful when watering or timing my watering just before the lights turn off. I really should be more careful of these since I will keep them as mother plants. I wouldn't care about lower leaves that get just a few small spots and will end up being stripped off soon enough.
If the coco looks water logged, it is because the photos were taken right after watering. A few minutes later, they looked less wet.
I wouldn't be sure whether a plant was male or female until putting it in flowering light cycle for a few weeks. I recently grew DJ shorts Blueberry F5 and Blue V2, which I was able to re-veg, but the two big Blueberry F5s have not come back and I am about to call them and replant, but they did produce hundreds, maybe thousands of seeds crossed with the male Blueberry F5 I grew out and then shook all over them. It's amazing how little flower you get when the plant makes seeds. But now I have enough seeds from my initial pack to grow out 50 at a time and pheno hunt for the most blueberry I can find. Gonna put them in solo cups and re-veg them after a handful of weeks in flower, and transplant to 5/7 gal pots with a fresh JMS (JADAM Microorganism Solution) to help ease the transplant and boost root growth.
Your bonsai trees look cool. I'd wanna be sure before I chop any. You could stick it in a little cardboard box with a light hanging above it on a 11on/13 off timer and you should know for sure a few weeks later