First pic is what it looked like when I got off work last night at about 1am. Second pic was when I got up this afternoon at 3. As you can see it looked green and healthy when I got home but when I woke up and check up on it it was brown and yellow and looks withered. What caused this to happen and is there anyway I can save my plant? I'm doing a one plant run to see how the plants from bagseed will grow (tall and skinny or short and fat and how fast they grow). I'm not sure if knowing the age will help find out whats wrongs or if you tell age from germ date or sprout day so heres the time line from the beginning. First put it in its jiffy pod monday to germ, yesterday I checked before work and it was just starting to break the surface of the soil and then today is the sunday after germ started. I also tried adding a couple drops of superthrive to the cup of water I used to water before heading to work yesterday and put about 3oz out of a 16oz cup in the jiffy pod tray if that helps pinpoint the problem
Your jiffy plug is soaking wet, not good. And what compelled you to give it super thrive? The problem is you sir lol.
More plants are killed by being "loved to death" than by neglect. Seedlings have all the food they need in the cotyledons (those "seed leaves")- all they should get is water until the cotyledons have dropped off. Having a small fan blowing gently on your seedlings will help to prevent another seedling killer, "damping off". "Damping off" is a fungus that kills millions of seedlings. Your seedlings look fine that morning, but then when you come back later, the the stem looks like it has been pinched and the seedling has fallen over. Keeping your seedlings too wet invites "damping off" to take hold. There is no cure for "damping off"- only prevention. I don't think you "baby" is going to make it. Start another seed and do some more reading in the "Grow" sections. Granny
Thanks for the input guys. I guess I'll just have to start over. It sucks but oh well I got plenty of seeds. Now I got another question, once I let the jiffy pods dry out can I reuse them?
I don't use jiffy plugs period man. I place my seed in a wet paper towel inside a zip lock baggie with some air in a warm place. Come back in 36-48 hours and there is a tap root. Then I plant right into soil. Poke a hole maybe half an inch, carefully place my seed root down into the hole. Then I lightly cover it with soil. All I'm all might take me 4 days to go from seed doing nothing to seedling above ground. But to answer your question no I don't believe you can but I'm not 100% on that. Keep us updated with seedlings you start and we'll help ya get it straight.
People use jiffy plugs but I don't, paper towel works well but what I do: 1) toss seed in tap water 2) normally within a day(for fresher seeds) or 2(older seeds 2-3) you'll have root sticking out. 3) Then I place that in soil in a cup that's not too hot with nutrients in it and of course root heading downwards. Cover with very little soil and you'll have a sprout the next day. Don't feed those little seedlings, they don't need feeding of super thrive or anything else anytime soon.