Is This Plant Weird?

[JohnDoe1987]

Is there something wrong with this plant?

The seed germinated in mid November. The plant is currently 4 inches tall. The lower leaves are softer, slightly deformed, weak, brownish but WITHOUT yellow spots - the colour change is gradual. The top leaves have adopted a strange curved-outwards form..

I also think it is growing too slow, but I don't understand anything anymore...

Do you have any advice?

JohnDoe1987 Reviewed by JohnDoe1987 on 02-23-2008. Is This Plant Weird? Is there something wrong with this plant? The seed germinated in mid November. The plant is currently 4 inches tall. The lower leaves are softer, slightly deformed, weak, brownish but WITHOUT yellow spots - the colour change is gradual. The top leaves have adopted a strange curved-outwards form.. I also think it is growing too slow, but I don't understand anything anymore... Do you have any advice? Rating: 5

[BuzzPion]

A 4" 3 month old plant is having problems for sure. Looks too dry to me and that post is way to big at this point.

Need more info though.

Buzz

[daihashi]

something is definitely wrong. What is your soil PH run off also what type of soil are you using?

I had similar issues and it ended up being a combination of those two things, Once I got everything in check and planted new seeds they took off like beasts.

:thumbsup:

[takeittothehead]

i have had this problem a few times adjust your feed and watering and try folar feeding

[JohnDoe1987]

Well, I don't know anything about PH and I bought the soil in a store, it came in a bag. I have a plate under the pot and I never let it dry out, but I don't put water directly on the soil anymore, nor do I spray the plant with water anymore.

I once had another plant and I sprayed it with water and it fell over with the impact of the spray and died. Very sad.

As to lighting, I have two lamps above the plant. When I am awake the plant has light, I turn the lights off when I go to sleep.

I don't want to "maximize the production values" or to "optimize plant flowering" - I just want to make sure the plant doesn't die.

Do you need any more info? Maybe more pictures?

Please, help me. I'm scared.

[JohnDoe1987]

OH! I forgot one thing...

My room temperature has been, for the entire life of the plant, around 50-60 degrees - does this have any influence on the current state of the plant?

[enquadrider16]

it takes effort to grow a plant. you have to make sure your plants are on a consistent time schedule, you need to give them nutrients and yes it has to be warmer. put it in a cabinet or something.

[stinkyattic]

Yes, that temperature is WAY too low and will contribute to soil pH problems too. In fact, you have inadvertently accomplished something that is usually a bit difficult- putting a plant in a dormant condition over a long period of time. If you had been watering on a 'normal' schedule, that plant would have died AGES ago.
Get your room temerature up over 70 degrees, and gradually start feeding it a proper grow fertilizer.
READ!!!! The link in my sig is a good place to start.

[takeittothehead]

heres what i do when i first start folar feeding i take a metal clothes hanger cut it into strips long enough to bend to make a brace then i take said clothes hanger insert into soil(after i know which way the plant will lean) that will work as a brace...now if the plants about knee high you can just straighten out a clothes hanger put into soil and carefully tie the plant loosely but tight enough to hold...i use yarn...it always pays to have a wife around....

[hybridlove420]

i dont mean to sound cruel, but id suggest chucking that plant and trying another seed or 2.

at its age and size, its probably got genetic issues as well as problems in your care for it. also, itll be likely to hermi in its conditions.

get some proper supplies, do a little reading, and try again. a healthy seedling will reach 4 inches within 2 weeks of planting, so you wont lose much