Seeds just germinated two days ago and light was added today. I used one of those seed starter kits with the humidity dome. Should I restart them? Don’t judge the setup lol
by Traditional-Tree-940
Seeds just germinated two days ago and light was added today. I used one of those seed starter kits with the humidity dome. Should I restart them? Don’t judge the setup lol
by Traditional-Tree-940
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I would start over with a stronger light
How strong is the light? Can you put a book underneath the seeds? Skip the paper plate because it’s warping the seed cells and see if they grow any stronger. Otherwise start again
Could you lower the light to 1-3″ and then re-pot much deeper?
How many days old are they? Do you have more seed? I’d probably sow some more AND try to save these. They’ll need more light and maybe some diluted seaweed. When you pot up, bury them up to their necks.
id personally start over
They’re pretty leggy. I dunno if you should start over – you have the light on them now so I think they’ll be fine.
If it were me, I’d take the opportunity to do an experiment by keeping those ones and also planting new ones. Keep those ones under the light the whole time, so they’ll get light as soon as they emerge.
My suspicion is that it won’t really matter too much and it’ll be hard to tell the plants apart when they are bigger. But I don’t know. If you do this experiment please report back, I’d be interested in the result!
5000 probably isn’t enough. I use 2 15000 lumen shop lights about 10 inches away from the soil. Great germination. Then I move them outside before they get too close to the lights.
They’re lying
https://preview.redd.it/179bh5zxbhqg1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecd70bc22435e998ef51735027894d0a05131971
This is what I got with two store bought lights they grew kind of stunted my first time but I have more sprouts I’m ready to move outside I have a luminar 1900lumen and a great value 1400lumen so 3300 but I was doing good with the luminar
Start over. Tomato seeds are cheap and seedlings germinate in 4-7 days. These are more than that behind due to their their desperate search for light, and they might die in spite of your efforts to save them, forcing you to resow anyway.
Looks like your light needs to be way closer
I saved some by laying them over and covering the stem with soil.
Bury them as deep as you can and move the light way closer. I had leggy tomatoes last year and although I upgraded my light, I also buried them and they grew just as strongly as the new seeds I had started and you couldn’t tell which was which. Once they become leggy like this they won’t get unleggy on their own. Bury them deep. More light.
Move the light much closer. Tomatoes can recover from being leggy.
Restart. They will never recover. Cut your losses and take it as a lesson learned.