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what's up guys we back and we are talking about seedling stage seedling stage with autoflowers
top five tips guys what what we found from when we started almost a year now growing autos tips and
pointers that we have like this is our best five from everything that we've learned so far yeah
growing up that uh have helped us be more successful throughout the season stage yeah
flowers so um first i'm over here like hyping everything up i'm like top five tell them tell me
more about the top five i don't know what to say about top five my first tip that i think that has
helped me is to be able to take that tap root when you are done with germination and that tap root is
out make sure you put that pointed side down yeah and only lightly sprinkle it like with your soil
i don't even really make a oil anymore yeah really we found like don't really try and plant them deep
uh with the autos like you don't really want them down there in a hole and like burying
them in dirt just like you're barely like putting them under the dirt and just sprinkle a little on
top so just tap roots down or if it's still on the seed you want the pointy side of the seed
facing down to the bottom of the pot and then just very lightly covered like you really don't
have to go deep no not at all just enough for that tapper to be in there yeah and we've seen way more
success because we've definitely put them too deep before and then they just like all of a sudden
yeah we had one where they had it pulled its own head off trying to like pull it out through so
yeah i've had a couple yeah we've seen the best success rate just not very deep tap roots down
number two is um when we start ours we generally start them in just like a very neutral soil like
just a pro mix regular no added nutrients just because the the the seedling has enough nutrients
within it to supply it through the first couple weeks there to where it starts to spread its roots
out you don't want to burn the seedling basically so usually i scoop the center of my pot out and
just put some a solo cup's worth of pro mix in the middle and then put my seedling in that
and then it starts and by the time it hits that more nutrient-rich soil it's ready to handle it
and it's i've had good success rate rather than just putting them in i've seen some weird
things happen yeah they get burned yeah you put them in right into the same soil that you plant
yeah so sometimes if you're mixing like the fox farms and stuff like that in the in your
starting soil sometimes it could be too much for seedlings so usually yeah for like a safety
precaution more so i guess i just always done the solo cup and it's always had great results so
i just creature of habit but to let me know what you guys do just right in there with the newts and
no no issues maybe i'm doing it for nothing but that's what i do and it works it works well i do
something a little bit differently i actually do a more neutral soil for my seedlings but i
do mine in a solo cup i transplant mine into my ending pot which where he was saying he scoops
out the middle inputs yeah and i will then take my um plant at about i'd like to do it before
14 days for sure but usually around 10 to 12 days i like to transplant mine into that more nutrient
rich when it seems to be out of the seedlings yeah because it takes about by the time you move them
out of the solo cups you can definitely see the roots at the edge of the solo cup so that's kind
of the same thing that i do it's just mine's right in the pot because i'm just scooping the center
out and putting it in if your roots are just hitting the side of your solo cup at that time
that's when it would be hitting the more nutrient soil so it's kind of it's just a different method
to the same method yeah i i um i personally really like my method and he personally really likes him
either way really works try both see what you like better honestly that's the that's the real
thing about growing is just try it see if you like it if it works for you bottom line we just
find that putting the seedling in a more nutrient yeah i'm sorry a more neutral nutrient nutrients
we just think that starting him off in a more neutral soil it just increases the success rate
and problems in the beginning stages from just like maybe too hot of nutrients or
anything like that and by the time it either reaches the solo cup and you transplant or
it's no longer a center out it just gives it that time to make sure it starts off good also
in seedling stage i like to make sure that the humidity is a little bit higher yeah um seedlings
really like the humidity domes will like flip over like a solo cup on top of it you can mist your you
know topsoil put it on top just to increase the humidity and help promote yeah i i really love
doing that because well as you guys know i have a perpetual grow all in one tent so my seedlings
are no different than the ones blooming out so i actually still put them in the same tent but
because i like to have the humidity a little bit higher for my seedlings that putting that little
dome right on top of them um it just really seems to help keep the humidity just for those little
babies yeah and it really starts them off faster like once once they're up and like reaching pretty
good you know take the dome off it's ready but it does help a lot i do i've been doing it too a lot
with the domes and then misting it helps keep the humidity high overweight you keep saying missing
so how how but it's actually on number four on the list how often do you water so that would
be number four tip is water and how often uh with seedlings really i don't do very much usually i'll
just have a water bottle of just like distilled water and i'll just put a little sprinkle around
it and like you know not really over top very much especially if you haven't seen it pop up yet i
usually don't hit the direct spot because you don't want to move the seedling if that's
every other day every day uh usually just when it looks like it's starting to dry out at the top
you know so maybe every other day just but just a very small amount yeah like i like to take a paper
towel especially when they're really little um and just drip them with the paper towel until that top
layer is pretty nice and saturated and then i just put that dome right back on top yeah it seems to
suffice and i do that every other day until again until they're about to their bed vegetables yeah
and it really does help it keep it moist in that spot too especially if you have like a drier area
it'll just keep it moist under the cup longer so it just helps the seedling pop up it really does
i've had a lot of success with it one last thing that a lot of people actually don't think about
when it comes to their seedlings and what is that that's the the lights guys and uh you know what
power do you have your lights how high is it set um and it's a great thing to watch for in the
seedling stage like if your seedling is stretching so hard it's falling over and it can't support
itself you probably have your light too high or your power is not up high enough it's trying to
reach too much um so definitely think about your light height and adjustment you can consult like
your manual um or whatever to see what what the recommendation plant higher to your light so it's
not trying to stretch so hard put it up on a pedestal or something or put a box on i've had
i've had seedlings actually fall right over on their side because because they were trying to
reach so hard and i've actually had to then prop them up and um when you see that happen that means
that you're they're reaching too hard yeah so that means you want to either move your light
down or turn the intensity up so they'll stop stretching so hard or you know so it just takes
a little bit but just watch and watch what the signs are with the plants telling you and then
just adjust your light accordingly but typically i feel like usually when we're starting seedlings at
least with our vipar lights maybe around 30 inches to 24 inches height above and maybe about 25 to 40
on the light yeah i i i think i'm sitting around 30 30 yeah and that seems about a good height
recommendation where they won't stretch too hard but they'll still the node's space well it's just
something that's kind of unique to every light but you'll just have to somehow unique to your plants
so um yeah definitely strains behave differently so just kind of read with the plants telling you
adjusting everything that a lot of people don't think about especially when it comes to their
seedlings so uh i mean it's something that i didn't really think about until it happened to me
so sing along the information i guess we just out here guys we wanted to share our top five tips so
you guys can maybe learn from some things we've noticed or methods that seem to work for us but
definitely let us know your top five tips for autos in the comments below during the seedling
stage guys we'd love to hear them and uh thanks so much for watching guys we really appreciate
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so today we want to talk about um tips for vegging your autoflowers
we are not vegging this is not the veg vid
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