okay, so I didn't know you could/should start the floros light even before they germed. but I took some advice from another forum wich basically said "after their long journey to sprout and break through that they are tired and give them light immediately" so I did. but my thinking was that they are so fragile, that I would put the light a safe distance away as not to startle or disrupt them so I put the light at 2' away and went to work for 6 hours. was bugging me the whole time because I have read on these posts that you do not want to make them stretch for the light when they are so young. So got home quick and adjusted the light now they are 6" away.