Failure to launch?

Project 25 from Copa.

Very excited to see this one go the distance, but I screwed “her” up at the onset. :cry:

Was lazy and planted straight to medium vs. paper towel or jiffy pot.

After about a week I decided to excavate a bit to check. ( I know - more bad ideas on top of bad ideas…)

She was sideways in the dirt when I rescued her. Straightened her up and helped remove the husks from the cotyledons.

But now, here we are about 3-almost 4-weeks later and she’s still just surviving. Any ideas on how to jumpstart? Should I abandon and try again?

Thoughts?

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If she has no vigour after all this time there’s nothing much it can be done :roll_eyes:, better start a new one and keep this just for curiosity … :sunglasses:

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Looks like a runt, I’d just wait it out. May need some time to recover before getting back into a normal growth pattern or something. Still pretty green though, I wouldn’t worry too much

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I routinely sow directly to medium and occasionally excavate if things aren’t going as I’d like.

A month is a really long time for it to be so small. Maybe it’s a freak.

I’d call it and start probably.

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Go with your gut. I’ve had plants stall and then all of a sudden they shoot off.

I’ve also had ones I wish I had culled but didn’t so I dealt with it by smiling and nodding.

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Do you happen to see gnats around it ever? I’ve waited an unreasonable amount of time after gnats ate most the roots off tiny ones. They come back to normal eventually, but it takes forever.

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Oh she’s too small for “runoff” levels of watering.

She’d likely die quickly if it were that wet.

I’ve been spot watering her with water ph’d between 6.2 and 7.0. She’s in amended coco coir under daylight LEDs.

There were fungus gnats that likely chewed her juvenile roots, but I’ve gotten rid of those pesky little buggers with traps, DE, limited watering and BT. No sign for at least two weeks.

Thinking maybe putting her outside in bright sunshine, and maybe watering with some FF “root drench” and\or FF boomerang” to see if we can jumpstart her again. ?

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This^. I think this is it.

I’ve tried to push them out of it and killed them. If its gnats, I’d just keep doing what your doing and wait. It can take a long time sometimes. Or start over if its replaceable. I haven’t had this happen enough to know for sure whats the best move tho. So if you do push her, let us know either way if it worked.

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For sure. I really want to see these genetics in action. I’m nearly 100% positive that whatever is going on here is my own fault and not a reflection on the strain.

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A thought. Keep just for giggles. I’m sure you got room to start others. You never know. Might be a real queen. Lol

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Its probably the gnats. I’m like a gnat breeder half the time. I deal with them quite a bit. I use microbe-lift bmc which is great. I only deal with them now when I get lazy and let them become a problem.

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Sow a couple more, don’t put it all on one seed.
Then give them all some LOVE vibes. :green_heart: :dizzy:

And making your own seeds resolves this kinda anxiety.
It’s so much more fun to chuck a bunch of seeds of your own making into your soil. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Had a big fat Godfather OG bean germinate and break surface really vigorously only to sit idle with only cotyledons for three weeks, pulled it out and no tap root just little hairs.

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I’ve had that happen a few times, in fact I have a Black Lotus from Bodhi right now that’s been doing the same thing for weeks. I’ve been a little tempted to chuck it as I kinda need the space in the tent, but I’m probably going to keep it around anyway. I suspect it’ll grow out of the runtiness. Hopefully yours too!

I just popped a few P25 I picked up during the sales. Kinda wondering if they were on the older end, somewhat slowish to germinate, not the most vigorous of things I’ve been popping. At the other end of the spectrum most of the xP25 testers I popped were sprouting taproots in the soak water.

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Looks like something happened to the first set of leaves like it’s been topped and all it has is the cotyledons left. I’ve seen it happen with seeds germinating in dry conditions sometimes the skin thingy inside the seeds gets stuck on the leaves and gets pulled off with the seed shell

I think they’re just stunted and very very very small.

Try watering with some fulvic. I’ve had a few weird seeds that came around using that. I use Mr. Fulvic brand.

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Coco coir should be ph’d from 5.8-60 ph
No higher or lower or it will usually cause problems.
But I agree she might be a runt and then boom she ends up the prom Queen lol
Good luck

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I suspect it will come around if it’s not dead by now, weird though that is a long time. Definitely don’t cull I’d be curious to see what comes out of this, maybe something very special. Runts hold a special place in my heart as 2-3 have become absolute superstars in time.

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