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[fiddlers-green]

Que pasa DGC!

When up-sizing “leggy” seedlings:
1. Do you keep the crown at the same level in the bigger pot?

2. Plant deeper until the medium level is just below the cotyledon?

Would the new roots from the stalk be mo’ betta or is the risk of rot greater? What do you vatos think?

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[sunny]

First thing I do is raise the plants or lower the lights a little bit. You will find your sweet spot with seedlings through experience, so they do not become leggy. You can get away with burying them deeper however, keep in mind to keep the soil very fluffy. I like to personally get my soil wet first before transplanting. Not where it’s running off water or anything. Just moist and then fluff it up. Plants your little guy in that nice fluffy. moist media. Think about all the little pockets of air, providing relief to the plant if it is too wet. Those little air pockets of moist air seem to really turn on the plant. Then, if the stem wants to throw roots, it is welcome to. And if it doesn’t want to, then it has oxygen to breathe and not drowned and rot. The number one reason people kill their house plants when they transplant, overwatering. Overwatering out the transplant stage is so common. There’s always this impulse to drowned the pot to get all the media wet. It’s so incredibly opposite of what we need to do.

• This reply was modified 12 months ago by  sunny.

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[ZoomyCat]

Got nothing to add. This covers it.
👍ZoomyCat Approved 👍

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[jmystro]

What Sunny said.

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[surfdad_grows]

@jmystro i think this is the fewest words you’ve spoken on a posts lol. At least that I’ve seen.

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[fiddlers-green]

Thanks for the replies amigos

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[flowerpower]

I direct sow my seeds so transplanting is out. I used to do the whole solo, 1 gal, 5 gal, but I found it to be unnecessary. If your seedlings are leggy you need more light.

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[simeon]

Sunny for the win.

Just had this issue with 28 seedlings I popped in the AC Infinity propagation unit. Definitely didn’t have the lights dialed up enough and had to do something so I transferred all of them to solo cups and buried them up to half an inch below the dicots. Every single one made it.

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