From Indoor to Outdoor

Keep them moist and warm and they will come! 48 hours would be really fast. With the right conditions it usually takes around 4 days. So be patient for another 48 hours and enjoy your grow!

No worries pal. Eh, you can leave the lights off. But you want to make sure you're there for when they pop their head up. If they'll stretch searching for light. Having your light on won't hurt you at all. Nor will having it off.. I turn mine on after 24hrs after planting. My seeds do have tap roots. If planted directly into sub. You're gonna wait anywhere up to 3-5 days. They'll pop. About the stunted autos. Autoz are fickle. They did big pots or need to be in their final pot from the beginning. Personally I like to start out in a small pot and do a uppotting, 7-10 days i like to get them into their harvest pot before they leave seedling stage. But, ppl will say its best for autos to be in their final pot. At least early on. You just grab it by its husk from its seed mate. You only germinate to a point were there 1cm tap. Making sure it doesn't fully germ. If you have issues. Get cube starters/peat pellets/rock wool these are all great to germ in and easily placed in their new pot when you see them pop Good Growing buddy

In a word - YES! Alternatively, if you're running your lights at less than 100%, you can increase the strength (I run all my plants under 100% lights all the time)... These little ones have been really searching for the light and I see you've actually had to stake them to keep them upright.... I would suggest you add more soil to each pot pulling it up around the stem.... the newly buried stem will then grow more roots and will have a better chance of becoming good and strong and thick... but add the soil to the entire pot, not JUST around the stem... Good luck!

i don't see yellowing in the pictures... shouldn't "need" fertilizer the first week or more. Then, your soil should have a charge in it that should last a while too. if it just sprouted, it'll fill in... if it happened after the fact, ... ?? have you fertilized? if so stop doing that until you see a need... take not of howlong before that occurs and you can start fertilizing a bit sooner next time. but, shouldn't have any nutrient caused issues this early, normally. removing shells happens sometimes.. usually a function of not planting deep enough or not tamping down the substrate quite enough... smal adjustments can avoid it in future.. it becomes memorize SOP before long. sometimes a little thin layer remains behind you have to carefully slide it off the coty's too. (when you have to remove a shell) Easiest to use a toothpick or soemthing then catch it at split of leaves and gently slide it off. (thin transparaent 'skin' can be left behind at times)

Perfectly normal ... most seedlings will exhibit some wonkiness in their first leaves whether it's color or shape - and it's nothing to worry about! Good luck!

I've got a friend with the same problem... he sprinkles black pepper in a fairly wide swath around his plants (other suggestions are cayenne, dry mustard powder or coffee grounds)... cats don't like the smell and will (apparently) stay away... but it would need to be a WIDE swath so they don't jump over it... In the case of the pepper, I would think you'd have to re-sprinkle after a rain. Don't know if coffee grounds work (he doesn't use them) but I would try THEM because they wouldn't be affected by rainfall. Ask your local coffee shop for a donation of their used coffee grounds... you could even provide them with a 5 gallon bucket to collect them in... at worst, you'd have to remove coffee filters from the pile before scattering them on the ground... Good luck - MY cat only likes to sleep under them and then only when they're in flower...