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looking good! definitely in for this one, looking forward to seeing it completed!

updates!

So im down to 4 plants now the others were so stunted and looked least likely to make a comeback.

This one looked terrible initially but appears to have bounced back quite nicely! Stoked!

A bit droopy don't know if its normal but looking healthy.

Not sure about this one...

And last but not least:

Managed to get temps down to a steady 25 degrees just by changing the location of my box. humidity is at 50% and should probably be a bit higher at this stage. Plant's have definitely made an improvement. im not ready to give up on them just yet! will post pic's later. 

This post should probably move to the grow log's section as that is what it has become!

So ive finally got my hand's on a temp & RH monitor. Temps are too high sitting at around 31 with a RH of about 60% i have now opened the door to my space slightly which has dropped temp down to 28 degrees. What is the optimum range, and any suggestion's on how to keep it there?

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So ive finally got my hand's on a temp & RH monitor. Temps are too high sitting at around 31 with a RH of about 60% i have now opened the door to my space slightly which has dropped temp down to 28 degrees. 

What is the optimum range, and any suggestion's on how to keep it there?

Maybe even stretch that watering schedule a bit more to like every 5 days for now. Let it get to the point where you pick up the cup and it almost feels like there's nothing in the cup. Coco and perlite is extremely light when dry and you want your medium to almost get dry between feedings/waterings(not entirely) at this stage of a plants growth . The plant needs to establish a strong root zone and a lack of abundant water encourages more root growth

Thank's ill give it a try, im getting to know the weights of the cups straight after watering, and as you mentioned above to where it feel's empty. 

Should i be introducing nutes yet? and when should they be moved to there final container?

Update as of today, pulled a few today that were not dead but just not making any progress... i've left 5 that look as though they're making a comeback.

Temp / Humidity monitor will arrive Monday, i have also added another fan for airflow. Watering once every 3 days with a light misting every now and then.

Do you have a hygrometer ? If so what's ur RH in there ?

I don't yet... So temp's and RH are unknown at this point... I should have one by next week hopefully.

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Cool thanks! Ive been watering to the point of run off just, never thought it would be bad for run off to sit in the tray, i suppose the medium would probably wick up from the bottom? It's hard to judge with the coco because after a day, the medium feel's really dry!

It's not a bad thing if a little bit of run off sits in the tray, you just gotta make sure the bottom of the pot is suspended from the water. If the bottom of the pot sits in water the medium will become water logged at the bottom of the pot and will remain water logged until the water in the catchment tray/saucer dries up. If the roots have reached the bottom of the pot, most likely have in your case, those roots will drown and you'll get the death which you see in those pics

Ok got it! So are these seedling's dead and gone? or is recovery still possible?

Hey dude You're overwatering. The amount of water sitting in the red tray with the cups in is just way too much water to be around such young plants. Get a toothpick, and poke holes all around the side toward the bottom of your styro cups. I like to water the cups outside the cab, until the run off stops, and then return the cups to the cab. Water until you see some runoff. You'll quickly learn how much causes runoff, and water every third day. Give them two weeks in the cups, then transplant to the largest container you plan on using. Judging from the size of your cab, you should aim for between 1 - 2 liter pots. Switch to flower two weeks after that. Keep your watering schedule at 2 - 3 days.

Cool thanks! Ive been watering to the point of run off just, never thought it would be bad for run off to sit in the tray, i suppose the medium would probably wick up from the bottom? It's hard to judge with the coco because after a day, the medium feel's really dry! 

They have been in the cab a week today, will give them another week and water again, Tuesday night / Wednesday morning.

Ive got one hole in the middle of the bottom of the cup's, are you saying i should put holes on the side's? Also when should i introduce nutrient's? 

Hope they recover! Thanks for the feedback!

They're a lot worse since my post, not sure what I've done wrong... Any one have any advice?

Going through a lot of these issues now, problem is as a first timer it's hard to recognize the problem as symptoms can be almost identical for different causes. Trial and error will fix that! Thank's for the post venom!!

I've been collecting bag seed from the what i class as my best / or favorite over the past months. Was looking at them and thought why am i even keeping these? Let’s germ them and see which pop! So my luck all 10 seed's germinated, and once you see that first sign of life, it's near impossible just to stop there. I used the glass of water method and the paper towel method just for experimentation purposes, both work flawlessly provided your seed’s are good.

I had previously decided to build a small cab or do a PC grow which never materialized... So had some supplies from that plan. I popped those babies into a 50/50 coco perlite mix in seedling tray’s I had found in the garden and waited patiently for them to break surface.

The first 6 I may have planted them to deep, so the remaining four I put a little closer to the surface of the medium. In a couple of day’s they started to break the surface at varying rates.

Breaking through:

They were looking pretty good at this point:

I’ve made a lot of mistakes so far, I had no light source to begin with so they stretched quite a bit. I also made the mistake of using nute’s too soon and burn was evident very quickly, since then ive been watering with store bought distilled water, supposedly with a Ph of 6.

Since then I’ve built a small micro cab, lined with Mylar, using 4 15w 6500k cfl’s at the moment. Still some work to be done such as light trap’s and a simple door latch.

Pretty happy with this setup!

There are some major issue’s with these seedlings and I am hoping you guys could point me in the right direction to hopefully prevent total loss, this is my first attempt so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here are individual images of them all:

http://s77.photobucket.com/user/Syk0t1kPB/slideshow/

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