I have just sprouted my first two seeds - a Barney's Tangelo Rapido and a Flash Diesel Haze. Both are feminized autoflowering strains. Anyway, since I've never done this before I have a newbie question about lighting at this time. I will be putting the sprouted seeds directly into their 3 gallon fabric pots tonight (using Sunshine Mix #4 in the pots). My question is this: should I start my lights as soon as I put them under the soil or should I wait until they peep out? It seems to me that since they are under a half inch of soil they wouldn't get much light, but perhaps they want what they can get and maybe it helps them know where UP is, I don't know. In any case, would it hurt anything to have the lights on or should I leave them off until they poke out? The light is a 2 foot, 8 bulb T5.
Thanks!
Thanks!