First Grow will my setup work?

[smokinindausa]

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[spankegti]

Plants seem to be doing alright under the too low watt grow flurescents.. Wonder if they'll actually grow any bigger leaves

the plant named angela has a bit taken out of it.. maybe becuase i touched it there or could it be bugs..?shouldn't be bugs though in closet clean area n all

[JohnnyPotGrower]

Dude, those guys look like they are stretching. Get that light as close as possible or those plants are fucked. My first plant stretched and is now shrivelled up and dead.

[Torog]

Plants seem to be doing alright under the too low watt grow flurescents.. Wonder if they'll actually grow any bigger leaves

the plant named angela has a bit taken out of it.. maybe becuase i touched it there or could it be bugs..?shouldn't be bugs though in closet clean area n all

Howdy spankegti,

I hate to say it..but if you ever find yourself having to prop up a seedling,then chances are,that it's stretched too much..and you may not be able to recover..my friend,calls em salad greens,and pulls em..I told him that he should wash em up,and throw em into a salad..extra flavor-no extra charge...lol.

The key to keeping your seedlings short and stout,is to have the light as close as ya can,and have an oscillating fan,gently moving them back and forth. Outdoors,it's a matter of the intensity of the sun..if you have the seedlings in constant shade,they'll stretch for the light..if the light is strong or close,then they won't have to reach for the light..and become weak and spindley,as a result. Your basic goal,is to build a mighty trunk,to bear the weight of the heavily resined flowers. So git a fan on em and keep the light close..and let's see if you can recover from the stretching.

Have a good one !

[spankegti]

I added some soil to the pot and buried the stems a bit..should I actually replant them further into the soil or would that be risky..? I bought an additional fluro grow light so now i have 3 on them and the lights are about an inch or 2 away from top of plants. Temp is great and havn't checked humidity yet but it seems ok...

my goal at this point is to keep them surviving until I can either get a better setup with HIS light or plant them outside when the weather gets warmer..right now it gets down to 30 at nights outside so tha'd be no good

[JohnnyPotGrower]

good move. raising the level of the soil will help alot. def try to get an HPS light... it will be worth it.

[bud man 2000]

ur lights should b about 2 inches. Dont wanna burn 'em.

[thechronic]

set up looks good just for the money u put in to it. just to let you know that the plants do let off smell. and they do get big deppending on the strain. but nice little set up.

[spankegti]

Im all good with smell I have my own place and live in maine so no worries

I added a 60w fluro today not one for growing just a regular type, but now that gives me 100w total. think I may go out wednesday and pickup one of those 85w or 150w fluro with those cheap reflectors u can buy..put a big piece of glass over the top of the box and set it on there so it doesn't heat up the plants too much

too tired and stoned to put pics up tonight but I'll take some tommorow..Looked at the plants when I got home from work and they are doing great 3rd set of leafs has started

One more question..?

for fertilzer I have expert gardener deepfeeding formula 15-30-15 nitrogen,phospahte,potast

when should I start using that and how much? Like 1/8th tsp for every cup of water maybe?

thanks for all help and respones everyone

[spankegti]

Day 11:

Plant on right "maryjane" seems to be doing better then plant on left "angela". Angela seems to be dropping leaves...

both angela and maryjane have red stems dunno what that means I've heard it could be strain or something with the soil... I am using a regular mediuem soil i bought at wal-mart. would it be better to get some good soil and replant? would that stress the plant too much and kill it?

going to go out and by some stuff tommorow like ph testing maybe that will help determine some problems