Unfortunately, at that size they are likely not coming back from roots being damaged. They’re also quite stretched out, I assume grown under lower light conditions. The ball portion should be sitting right on top of the soil medium.
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Why are your roots on top of the soil? Get a pencil or stick and make a hole and stick them in the dirt up to the ball. Then make sure they get enough water. I grow obesa at my nursery and they go on my most prop table for about a week or so before getting weened off of water. So I water my plug trays with seeds on a timed mister about 10 sec every hour all day. The soil doesn’t ever dry out. They grow great like this. I move them when most of the seeds have sprouted to another table where they get hose misted once a day for another couple of weeks. Once they are dime to nickel size the water gets cut back to allowing them to dry out then get watered. This may be a couple days if still in plug trays as the cells are pretty small. Once they are quarter size I transplant them into 2” pots and grow until they fill the pot which could be anywhere from 1-2 years. Usually at the 2-3 year mark I sell the mature plants and continue to use the babies to get my seed. I have been doing this routine for decades and never lose any.
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Unfortunately, at that size they are likely not coming back from roots being damaged. They’re also quite stretched out, I assume grown under lower light conditions. The ball portion should be sitting right on top of the soil medium.
Why are your roots on top of the soil? Get a pencil or stick and make a hole and stick them in the dirt up to the ball. Then make sure they get enough water. I grow obesa at my nursery and they go on my most prop table for about a week or so before getting weened off of water. So I water my plug trays with seeds on a timed mister about 10 sec every hour all day. The soil doesn’t ever dry out. They grow great like this. I move them when most of the seeds have sprouted to another table where they get hose misted once a day for another couple of weeks. Once they are dime to nickel size the water gets cut back to allowing them to dry out then get watered. This may be a couple days if still in plug trays as the cells are pretty small. Once they are quarter size I transplant them into 2” pots and grow until they fill the pot which could be anywhere from 1-2 years. Usually at the 2-3 year mark I sell the mature plants and continue to use the babies to get my seed. I have been doing this routine for decades and never lose any.