Okay it's good that you read the soil/fert bag, a lot of people will add fertilizers to that mix and burn the plants. A real quick, but only temporary fix would be to go to the nearest hardware store and buy a 42watt or higher compact flourecent or a circular flourescent tube to screw into that light socket. This will imediately improve the lighting and should stop the stretching, you will be able to get it closer, because the flouros put off a lot less heat, but it will still burn the leaves if it touchs directly. You must work fast, because those seedlings grow pretty quick as you have already seen. Once you have the lighting fixed for now, you will want to plan on an upgrade, because the larger the plants the more light they will need.
sawleaf Reviewed by sawleaf on . What the heck? Ok guys, the newbster again, my plants are virtually dying left right and center! :( setup some lil rods, come back, they have over stretched the rods and bent where I tied them up, and one of them has shrivelled up and burnt while I was at work. So, I leave the light where it is, the flowers overstretch, and burn themselves. I remove the light, they overstretch too much and the stem crushes under its own weight. WHAT THE HECK CAN I DO? Some new ones are growing, from the last of Rating: 5