Whats wrong with my seedlings
Anditschstarted grow question 4mo ago
2 are crippeling the other 2 are healthy
Should i start new ones?
Strain Cherry Kush Coke Auto - Linda Seeds
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wolfvbanswered grow question 4mo ago
Salam Anditsch! 👋 Welcome to the diagnostic clinic, Habibi! 🌱
Looking at your photos and reading the community feedback, your seedlings are caught in a classic structural trap. Let's look at this through the lens of Modern Engineering so you can see exactly why they are struggling: 🛠️
1. The "Grand Canyon" Trap (Airflow Blockage): 🛑
As @Ultraviolet and @Organoman correctly pointed out, your pots are only half-filled with soil. By leaving that massive plastic wall sticking up above the seedling, you have accidentally built a windbreak. Fresh air and CO2 cannot flow over the leaves, creating a stagnant, humid "dead zone" right where the plant needs to breathe. Without proper gas exchange, the plant suffocates and stunts its own growth.
2. The "Ocean" Trap (Watering Mechanics): 🌊
As @00110001001001111O mentioned, putting a tiny seedling in a massive pot makes watering extremely difficult. A seedling only has a root the size of a piece of thread. If you soak the whole pot, the water just sits there and goes stagnant, drowning the root. Combine that with what looks like a "hot" (nutrient-rich) soil as @Green_claws noted, and those fragile roots are getting chemically burned and suffocated at the same time.
Your Engineering Rescue Protocol: 🚑
The "Halo" Watering Method: Stop watering directly at the base of the stem! Instead, pour a tiny amount of plain, pH-balanced water in a circle (halo) around the outside edge of the leaves. This forces the roots to stretch outward in search of water.
Airflow: Make sure you have a gentle oscillating fan moving air over the top of those pots to try and pull that stagnant air out of the "canyon."
The Golden Rule for Next Time: Either start your seeds in much smaller starter cups (like Solo cups) so the root-to-water ratio is balanced, or completely fill these large pots to the very top rim with soil before planting!
Let the soil dry out, change your watering ring, and they should start to bounce back. 🚀
Would you like me to analyze any other parameters of your grow room setup?
Happy Growing! 💚
JimmyWhiteanswered grow question 4mo ago
Hi Anditsch,
I would start new seeds because autoflowering genetics have a limited life, avoid wasting time.
They do not look healthy indeed. The medium looks a bit too wet for the seedlings as well.
Good luck with your grow. Cheers.
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JUNGLE_B4RNSanswered grow question 4mo ago
Soil EC is too high for seedlings.
Give a good watering with some roots enhancers and make sure your light is far enough.
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GolliGrowsanswered grow question 4mo ago
I wouldn’t start over yet. Seedlings can look rough early on, especially autos, and that one just looks a bit stunted rather than doomed. Make sure you’re not overwatering (big pot + tiny seedling = easy to keep it too wet), keep light intensity moderate, and avoid feeding for now if you’re in soil. As long as new growth comes in green and not twisted or necrotic, it should recover. Give it a few more days before making the call.
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Green_Clawsanswered grow question 4mo ago
It's just a ruff start probably the roots touching hot/fertilised medium, don't do anything but only water when needed she will grow out
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Ultravioletanswered grow question 4mo ago
The space from the top of the pot to the top soil is for too far, unless you have air to take away moisture it creates a artificially high RH% buffer zone inside the lip, where the rh will remain higher than ambient. The pot is also ceramic/plastic which will have reduced air intakes, with light beating on the soil, the top couple inches of soil will quickly evaporate the water that exists and gravity can pull moisture away from the tiny roots, that's why its generally not recommended to use a massive pot for a seedlings that sits directly under light, you could add a inorganic mulch just until she is a little bigger to assist with slowing the evaporation. Bit nothing matters with the lip so high, the high rh buffering will stifle nearly all gas exchange drastically slowing growth and causing problems.
Gluck.
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 4mo ago
These aren't beyond recovery... limited info so it's really just wild guesses.. possibly too much light and poor watering habits? ramifications of using too large of a pot for a seedling?
"They" say use a final pot for autoflowers, but i've never seen a plant stall in 7 years and potting up around 400 times at this point, give or take. I had zero gardening skills before, so it's not a skill difficult to learn. If you are "shocking" plants by gently placing in a larger pot and gently covering with more medium, then it's time to try a different hobby, lol. You can make a big pot work, but it just makes irrigating more difficult to be done properly. OFten leads to superficial watering, underwatering or so much moisture relative to rate the plant drinks that it stagnates in the pot.
tiny plant, big pot:
when you water, stick to a circumfrence a little wider than it's leaves and make sure that moisture gets all the way down. Allow enough dryback before repeating but obviously don't let the plant wilt. if soilless, get some runoff. continue to widen circle until you can watering the entire pot without it staying wet for an inordinate amount of time. that's your best option to train deeper roots, but less than ideal situation. In future, use size-appropriate pots. Pot-up as needed. It'll make your life easier and it won't slow down growth one bit. Probably improve results.
If you weren't doing that, good chance better habits will help in a noticeable way.
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Organomananswered grow question 4mo ago
Yes...........and fill your pots up completely!
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