hi,
my little plants are going all so wrong. They are 8 days from when i planted the seeds now and all 10 have germinated. Unfortuantly they all are just growing straight up and not putting on any leaf at all. why is this?

the first pic was taken 2 days ago and the second was taken about 10 minutes ago. (i have now moved them to the window as my mother reckons it will be better for them there but today is the shortest day of the year about 10 hours light, is this pointless too?)

I had them under an 18 watt t5 bulb in my growing space which has been about 35% humidity and average temp of 17 degrees C. The light was hung about 6 inches above the plant tips and has been on a 18-6 cycle. Yesterday i changed up to a 24 -0 but when i looked at them this morning they had stretched loads. Yesterday was also the first day i gave them water with a weak amount of food in it, like 1/4 normal strength.

Why are they doing this? Should i just chuck them away and start again as they look crap.

cheers 4 ur help
wast
wastwhg Reviewed by wastwhg on . STRECHING! hi, my little plants are going all so wrong. They are 8 days from when i planted the seeds now and all 10 have germinated. Unfortuantly they all are just growing straight up and not putting on any leaf at all. why is this? the first pic was taken 2 days ago and the second was taken about 10 minutes ago. (i have now moved them to the window as my mother reckons it will be better for them there but today is the shortest day of the year about 10 hours light, is this pointless too?) I had Rating: 5