It seems with every variety of citrus I'm growing from seed that the very first set of leaves start to go pale as they slowly grow bigger and the seedlings grow very slowly. I don't want to kill them by added too much fertilizer, which I'm assuming is the problem because I'm adding all the micros with liquid seaweed. I'm wondering if it is safe to fertilizer them when they are so small or if I should be mixing in pelleted fertilizer, I have palm food at the moment and it's 10-5-8 with micros, into the germination mix when I sow seeds. The mix I'm currently using is 1:1 coir perlite and it seeds to drain quite well and dries out in a couple days in the incubator but there is no added fertilizer of any sort to it and when I used potting soil to sow seeds before there was osmocote in it and they seemed to do very nicely but the palm food I have it says to use it every 4-6 weeks in growing season so would that mean that it is all used up by the time that they germinated and therefore wasting fertilizer? The only liquid fertilizer I can find that seems to work for citrus around here is fish fertilizer but I am wondering if that should be put into the coir when it's wetted so it can asorb the food but then would it only mold and possibly damp off or somehow else kill the seed? Sorry for the long read and thank you for any help or opinions that can be offered,
Sincerely,
James
