photoperiod question - seedling

Looking at photo#2 of the Grease Monkey diary, I'm willing to bet your light is too close unless you have it turned down a lot. That's pretty close for the size light you got. You might get a little faster start in smaller pots, but it's really nothing to trip on either. Your roots are gonna grow, then the plant will follow. Regardless of what other posters might suggest, you certainly CAN have too "hot" of soil(which means it's got too much fertilizer for the ignorant) for a seedling. If your not, you should be starting in a light mix. In a bigger pot it's not uncommon to use hotter soils towards the bottom of the pot with lighter soils up top, at least when starting in a larger pot and you're trying to not add any feed right away.

wait, wait, wait. 1. You don't need to transplant photoperiods at all when growing 2. you need to post some pictures here if you need some help on your plant problem, high quality, focused pictures are the best 3. even tho it's kinda a meme right now, you can't water such a tiny little seedling with THAT amount of water bro, you just drown them. 4. No... its not because of the hot soil and i never heard that and it made me giggle a bit :D 5. people are transplanting so the plant won't get overwatered but insuring the soil won't dry out at some points and roots grow quicker and faster if they are in a tiny pot first, at least thats what promised. So you really only need to water the amount of water the plant can uptake with their TINY little roots for that moment, soil needs some wet-dry circle tho You still could transplant them in a smaller pot if you are careful enough. Will make everything easier but people grown weed in a pringles can, everything works somehow if you don't want to transplant. If you stay with the big pots and therefore need to water more so the soil won't dry out completly try adjusting the VPD. this means temperature, humidity and leaf temp. there are very good videos on youtube of that, if you want to improve. Mastering VPD gives you at least 1/4 better/more yield imo So thats my opinion on that, your cat is really, really cute :3 have fun growing and whatever you do, don't give up and keep growing