Help with young plants

[BadCatz420]

Hi guys I'm new to posting but not new to the boards. I have tried to grow about 5 times and everytime my plants never make it past 2 weeks. The problem is the stems on my plants grow fast and are skinny and fall over. I have tried using toothpicks and twist-ties but the stems are so skinny and fragile after a while the stems just get mushy and the plant dies. I thought at first it was because my plants were reaching to the light but during the day they are outdoors and I doubt they are reaching so much for the sun that they kill themselves. Could I somehow be overwatering and making the stems grow too fast or something? Thanks

BadCatz420 Reviewed by BadCatz420 on 08-03-2005. Help with young plants Hi guys I'm new to posting but not new to the boards. I have tried to grow about 5 times and everytime my plants never make it past 2 weeks. The problem is the stems on my plants grow fast and are skinny and fall over. I have tried using toothpicks and twist-ties but the stems are so skinny and fragile after a while the stems just get mushy and the plant dies. I thought at first it was because my plants were reaching to the light but during the day they are outdoors and I doubt they are Rating: 5

[Zandor]

Well you could germinate them indoors under fluorescent lights for one.
Then you could make sure you only fill the cut 1/2 way with your soil mix (NO MIRACLE GROW). That way when the plant stretches to much you can just add more dirt to hold it up until it grows up a little.

That's just an idea you can try.

[HARDDON]

I dont think over water will cause the plants to stretch/

Stretching is almost always a sign of not enuff light.

I don;t know of anything else that will cause it time after time.

Shade does not equal sunshine.

Are they in the sunlight itself??????

8 hours a day?

[BadCatz420]

I put my pots outside when I wake up to soak up the rays and when i come home from work the sun's usually just setting and I put my plants under my lamp in my room. I doubt it's flouro but It's one of those lamps that has the 5 stem like arms that come off to individual light bulbs so I put like 2 or 3 lights on my plants. I tried your idea Zandor and it works very well my babies look much happier when they are straight!
Thanks

[Zandor]

for your young plants you are better off keeping them inside under the lights and not move them outdoors.

[BadCatz420]

Yesterday I put both of my 2 weekers outside and one completely fried in the sun and the other didn't. She wasn't even worth salvaging. I was thinking maybe the change from 65 degrees in the house to 110 outside is shockin my plants, hell it's a shock for me to go out into that blazing heat myself. later

[Zandor]

Yesterday I put both of my 2 weekers outside and one completely fried in the sun and the other didn't. She wasn't even worth salvaging. I was thinking maybe the change from 65 degrees in the house to 110 outside is shockin my plants, hell it's a shock for me to go out into that blazing heat myself. later

Bad kitty, bad kitty. lol
Better luck next time then dude.

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