sprout at a stand still

[michaelpeg]

i have a sprout that came out of the soil about a week ago. it was growing fine till about 3 days ago it just stopped growing. it is still very healthy looking very dark green leaves but has had no growth what so ever in the last 3 days its only about an inch tall and another sprout that came through the soil the same day is about an inch taller and i see growth everyday is something wrong i havent stressed it in anyway

[Weedhound]

do you have a picture? Very dark green leaves sounds like too much nitrogen.

[michaelpeg]

sorry no pictures but im not sure if it could be nitrogen i am using 2 parts seedling soil 1 part perlite and 1 part vercumulite but anyways the leaves look kind of wierd like between every ridge of the little leaves it looks very bubbly if that makes any sense and thanks for the reply

[Illusion]

i'm going to take a guess...

are you using tap water?
do you know what the pH of it is?

probably too high pH

[michaelpeg]

i am using tap water but i adjusted it to about 6.5ish
thanks

[Weedhound]

Revised: The Complete Guide To Sick Plants,pH and Pest Troubles - PlanetGanja.com (http://www.planetganja.com/highsociety/showthread.php?t=8778)

See if anything in here offers some insight.

Good luck :)

[michaelpeg]

thanks man tons of info which also gets me thinking too much nitrogen as wel,l i appreciate it

[hybridlove420]

are you giving it fertilizers? seedlings dont need any until theyve got several leaf sets.

if not, maybe your soil was a nutrient-rich brand

[michaelpeg]

no nutes i think it might have something to do with the stem being slightly damaged due to the seed shell not coming off properly. The shell kind of clamped on to the stem making a little kink and cutting it a bit. Not sure if this is the problem but the stem looks alot better than a couple of days ago but still no growth

[michaelpeg]

still no growth what so ever feel free to give me some advise about whats going on here maybe even stinky might want to post a reply

[michaelpeg]

stinky could you help me i am using 150 watt hps, good ventilation and the plant is nice and green i cant figure out why it wont grow is there some kind of nutes you can give to sprouts or do you think calmag would help i am using distilled tap water treated to 6.5

[stinkyattic]

I would just use plain tap water at 6.7, not distilled. It might just be suffering setback from not shedding the husk fast enough. If it doesn't look discolored, droopy, burnt, whatever, it's going to be just fine.

[michaelpeg]

thank you very much