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Seedling with shrunk and darky true leaves

dfj92
dfj92started grow question 3 years ago
What happens if a seedling looses its true leaves during the 1st week after germination but the cotyledon leaves are still alive and green and the stem is straight? Do another set of True leaves reappear? and how can this affect the perdormance of the plant?
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 3 years ago
No, if it loses it first true leaves, that's it, no new ones will ever grow. Their "disappearance" was likely due to too high a humidity, especially if you had covered the newly hatched seedling with cling film or other humidity boosting cover. Cannabis seedlings do not need artificially high humidity to grow, but they do need good air exchange, something that can not happen when under a cover of any sort. Having a light on can also raise the temperature under the cover considerably, literally cooking any new growth or causing moulds or fungus to attack the plant. Cannabis is not a rain forest plant and growing seedlings under humidity domes/sweat lodges is one of the most frequent mistakes I see in Grow Diaries. Only cuttings/clones need extra humidity, and only for a short time while they are waiting to form a new root system. Just think about what happens in nature, cannabis grows in the open air, there are no little elves or fairies running around covering cannabis seedlings with little humidity domes or plastic film. Most Idicas come from the middle east, a very dry climate and most sativas come from equatorial countries and grow in the "dry" season, both environments are very low in humidity. Cannabis needing humidity is an outdated concept from the 1960s when pot was coming from South East Asia (and people generally had very little actual knowledge about cannabis), so people though "jungle", whereas the pot came from low land areas and grown during the dry season. This myth about cannabis needing humidity has strangely persisted for the last 60 odd years and is largely an urban myth. I also believe people are wasting vast amounts of money by unnecessarily having and running humidifiers in their grow tents/spaces. Cannabis actually prefers a dry environment from mid flowering onwards, and will produce the largest amounts of trichomes when its is arid at the end stages of flowering. Hope this helps, Organoman.
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daythemn
daythemnanswered grow question 3 years ago
Don't want to ruin your mood, but this looks like it might be damping-off, a fungus type seedling disease. If that is the case, your plant will most likely not make it past the seedling stage. It happened to me in my first grow, too. Hard to say what it's caused by, but a wet and cool environment is said to trigger it. Make sure you have suitable levels temperature and relative humidity in your grow environment. Seedlings tend to enjoy humid conditions. Also, do try to water only enough to make the soil moist. If this condition worsens in the following couple of days, (no new leaves, stem getting weaker, true leaves shrinking further, etc) I would give up and germinate another seed so as not to lose more time. I'm sorry, I do hope I am wrong. Best of luck mate.
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