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I have three plant growing and one is giving me a problem they are all 13 days old, but this ones growth is stunting and the spiky leaves are yellowing a bit and the round leaves shribled up. Help, what do you think? Sorry about the picture it's from my cell phone.
soil or hydro?
what kind of light are they under and how far away is it?
have you fed them anything yet?
I don't know if I can help you, but this info will be useful for anyone trying to help.
Well, sometimes you get a runt/mutant/cripple that just doesn't grow well even though the conditions are the same. In most cases I would say toss it but since you only have three plants you might as well grow it out and see what you get.
It might be going though the motions. Who can tell with that pic. The round leave tend to die early. A little yellow isn't the end of the world. Try not to; touch, over water, have to low/high of a temp, and get some light on that sucker. It needs to get it's tan on. . . lol I'm baked:joint1:
thank you to all yall. It's a hydro system. I have a 70w soft white bulb but only because the 100w mh I brought is the wrong one, it doesn't have a plug just wires. but the grow doesn't seem to be bothered by it.
Your plants will mostly just hybernate with that kind of light. It's good to have low light during the first week or two, but now it's time to turn on the real light, or they won't grow much at all. When you switch to real light keep it a few feet away the first day, then slowly begin to move it closer, until it is as close as the plants can stand. This could be one inch, or twelve, depending on what light you are using, your ventalation, humidity, etc.
The yellowing on those two first leaves is completly normal. If the other two plants are not showing signs of distress, then everything is probably set up close enough to correct (except the light).
Good luck and keep us posted.
what a cheap but good light I could get
Soft white lights are the worst. Get a daylight florecent for vegatation.
as a matter of fact, get two. . .
Yeah, not enough light at all man. You can get a 70w HPS in some light at home depot or canadian tire or something. There's a thread here on it, you can turn it into a good little grow light. If you can get a >= 150w HPS that'd be better though. If you want to use one light all the way through that is. If you can get more than one setup you could use daytime CFLs (5100-6500k) for veg, like freevenice said.
for cheap and efficient best are compact flouros get 2 per plant the ones that give off white color that should do enough for 2 weeks then add more light
As a matter of fact get 4 or 6 or 8. I am not in favor of anything but HID lighting but you can get weed from using flouros. Just keep them as close as possible to the plants, like a couple if inches, without harming the plants. That, and cost is the main advantage of flouros. Use as many as possible!Quote:
Originally Posted by FreeVenice
Do not get the grow flouros in the garden center. They do not put off enough lumens. Do like whisky says and get compact flouros that look like regular light bulbs. 24 watts equals incandescent 100 watts, or something. Also consider small, cheap chrome reflector hoods for the bulbs.