SpiriTHC
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they stretch due to stress as seedlings.. it can be from lack of light.. too far or too close or too many.. gotta play with it
mine stretched when they were too close.
mine stretched when they were too close.
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Single CFL? I thought that too little light makes them stretch? I have 12 CFL's 10 are 6500k and two are 2700. (the ratio was more 2700, but I just changed it when I saw stretch in the other seedlings and this). They are mostly 23w CFLs (100w equiv) with some 13w (75w equiv)
You think I should pull some lights? I also have clones starting in the same dome...
Speaking of clones, should I be spraying the leaves or the riot cube to moisten/water them? or not at all?
I'm using a single 23w 6500k CFL right now at night and alternating it between the window in the day. Being exposed to the sunlight I should be able to throw it right under the 400w MH after bit. Also I'm no expert on clones or seedling so may want to take someone elses advice. However, I'm pretty sure that is a lot of light for rooting clones as well. I've seen people put the clones on a shelf above their light (so only indirect lighting) and they rooted perfectly. In the seedling stage I really only think they need a light source and keep it close. When it moves into veg is when you'll want to add all those lights. Please don't take my advice without anyone else chiming in, but I'm just saying what I've seen and what's working for me. Oh and you can spray the leaves and what not if you would like but sine it's under 87% RH like you said I don't think that's really needed. I don't have my seedling under a humidity dome at all either, never was under one.
Thanks teSmp! That Bigbud is getting hairy faster than the NL now! It's drinking the whole 2L res in the 12 hour light cycle.... I have to add in a little when the lights go out so it won't go totally dry.That big bud looks great and I agree, less light. I really have no clue about seedlings because I always get clones. But my sensi star seedling is doing good under just the one CFL and yes when it's in the window it gets direct sunlight. I'm assuming minimal light is needed during the seedling stage and after its established and moved into veg you can turn up the lights!
Dont nute ur babies so earl SB. I never give my babies anything for the first 10-12 days after breaking coco. I Start them in a seedling soil in 4oz. cups (size of a shot glass). Between 8-10 days I then transplant because they will start to get root bound and I only give water during that period (distilled) not tap. When transplanting I treat my cocogro block with distilled water and neem oil to to fluff it out and hopefully kill anything that might be lurking. I let the rehydrated coco sit for 2 days them i put coco into pots. At this point I flush each 3l pot with half gallon of r/o water. With botanicare coco this gives me a really low ppm of 50-60 after flushing. I let the pots sit for 24hrs. then I run a premix of 5ml. per gal. of cns17 coco grow and same for cal.mg. through the pots till I get good runoff. Then just transplant seedlings. I have literally never had healthier plants. Everyone of them takes off within 24-48 hours. One more thing I find that works out really well is bottom feeding seedlings. I just sit my little cups in a bowl of distilled water until I see moisture at the top. Its not the method of bottom feeding where u leave water to sit in catch tray but more of using a bucket and sitting 3l's in there to soak up water. This works very well for me with getting young plants established. I know u cant use this technique with your 2l's but u might want to try with ur seedling and clones. I dont use rooter plugs and such just seedling starter soil and coco when transplant. Not to knock bpn but CNS17 coco has made life easy. Coco specific nutes are the way to go.. Just some food for thought.
Thanks teSmp! That Bigbud is getting hairy faster than the NL now! It's drinking the whole 2L res in the 12 hour light cycle.... I have to add in a little when the lights go out so it won't go totally dry.
OK, so less light until it gets established... but how do I know when that is? 2 more leaf nodes? The other two seedlings with everything else the same but the strain are not burnt at all (liberty haze and kosher kush) but my G13 Hashplant and the Stacked kush are krispy, and at this point I'm not sure will even make it... The stacked kush was a little closer to the lights since it's in a 2 gal pot, so I get why that one is more burnt, but the G13 Hash was the same height as the rest of the seedlings and got fried. Maybe those two are more light sensitive?
way cool grow! Love the roots on that thing!
You've got a really cool stack of strains.. Did you add the lowryder to have some smoke sooner? Thats why I always end up pop'in one of those auto's... Peace out.