6 Days and still... only an inch

[Rusty Trichome]

I think that youâ??re still blasting them with too much light and heatâ?¦. You were warned in your previous thread.
Secondlyâ?¦.the soil looks dry. Peat pots transpire a lot of moisture very rapidlyâ?¦.and peat is very low ph to begin withâ?¦..maybe the best thing would be to go to plastic pots in the future.

I pretty much agree...
I usually keep four to six seedlings per 23w CFL lamp. What you have is overkill, and you're going to fry 'em.
Keep your seedling's soil moist.
No nutrients for about 4-6 weeks.

I know that Rusty is a champion of miracle growâ?¦I am not. I started my outdoor vege garden starts in miracle growâ?¦.it sucked the life out of them. I had to add quite a bit of nutes to bring them around. He obviously has vast experience dealing with itâ?¦probably a lesson in itself.

I'm not a champoin of anything, but Miracle Grow has a bum rap. If an idiot newbie (like me) can easily learn to grow cannabis with the stuff, anyone can. All it takes is a little bit of dialing-in, and acclimating yourself to properly using nutrients. It's a learning curve regardless of a gardeners choice of medium or nutrients. Your learning curve required you to cut the FFOF in half. Why? Was it because you felt the FFOF was too hot for seedlings and clones?

Also Iâ??m not a believer in waiting to feed until plants are X high or old. I put my starts (or seeds) in 50/50 mix of Fox farms ocean forest and a no nute potting mix. (with a lot of perlite) That equates to a light feeding from the get go. They take off running.

If I'm not mistaken (and I'm not) FFOF is a pre-nuted mix akin to Miracle Grow. (organic sources of nutrients aside) Both are a slow release mix. Please, tell me the difference between the nutrients in the FFOF, and the nutrients in the MG.
I'm willing to bet you don't give additional nutrients for a few weeks, at the very least. If so, you risk frying them with the nutrients, or severe stretching, or possibly stunting and abnormal growth...

Kinda looks like you're supporting the MG concept, just not embracing the MG name or inorganic source. Chemical compounds are chemical compounds, regardless if organic or inorganic sources. Plants do not and can not distinguish between the two. Sitting side by side, if MG is cheaper than the FFOF, I'm going MG. (unless it's the 6 month mix...I'm not sure I'd go THAT far, lol)

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Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on 06-29-2010. 6 Days and still... only an inch My last post, I mentioned that I had burned my plants. Well, I took down the foil and moved to another location with better ventilation. I have started new seeds, and now, the only one that has popped up, is 6 days old and is only about an inch tall. The last ones that I had were over 5 inches after 6 days!:wtf: I am using the same soil, jiffy pots, and the same lights. The only difference is that I used the CFLs from the beginning instead of sunlight and then the CFLs. Rating: 5