Advice for young and long-stemmed seedlings?

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Fenderbenderbcp

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Hello everyone, I'm here looking for some advice on the next step for my seedlings. They are sativa strains and I only put the seeds in the soil 6 days prior to taking these photos, however they seem to have grown concerningly tall and I'm wondering what I should do to care for them best. Any help / advice is appreciated, thanks so much!
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I'm no expert but I gave repotting my best shot and adjusted my setup a bit; I moved the bulb to about an inch away from the cotyledons. The bulb I'm using is a Sylvania LED / 8.5W / 150mA / 120V / 60Hz / 800 Lumens. Thanks for the advice

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Fenderbenderbcp said:
Hello everyone, I'm here looking for some advice on the next step for my seedlings. They are sativa strains and I only put the seeds in the soil 6 days prior to taking these photos, however they seem to have grown concerningly tall and I'm wondering what I should do to care for them best. Any help / advice is appreciated, thanks so much!
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Hello there...they are stretching to reach more light...you can lower the intensity and get it closer.
When you next transplant, bury them up to the cotyledons.
Hths
FF
 
Lastmanstandin31 said:
I think he was saying turn down the intensity of the light(dimmer) then lower the light closer to the plants..
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So turn the light down to give less output then bring the light down to bring the intensity back up? I see what he wrote now but I am unsure how doing the two things together help. It would seem to cancel each other out.
 
Ya they need a bit more light without burning them. I agree with what FF says. Increase the light a little and then bury those stems when you go to transplant. Give them support for now until you're ready to repot. I'd do it sooner than later depending how confident you are with transplanting without disturbing the roots or breaking a stem.
 
printer said:
So turn the light down to give less output then bring the light down to bring the intensity back up? I see what he wrote now but I am unsure how doing the two things together help. It would seem to cancel each other out.
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I'm sorry you disagree with tried and true methods...
FF
 
printer said:
So turn the light down to give less output then bring the light down to bring the intensity back up? I see what he wrote now but I am unsure how doing the two things together help. It would seem to cancel each other out.
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To stop the plants from trying to reach the light, the stretching. Plant won't try to reach so hard if the light is close to it I'm guessing.
 
WintersBones said:
Ya they need a bit more light without burning them. I agree with what FF says. Increase the light a little and then bury those stems when you go to transplant. Give them support for now until you're ready to repot. I'd do it sooner than later depending how confident you are with transplanting without disturbing the roots or breaking a stem.
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Hi risk of damping off as well.
FF
 
Holy shit those are stretchy lol.

I just put my seedlings under a 60W cheap CFL bulb, like very very close to it propped up with uh PS4 games lol. And I just keep an eye on it everyday for the first week and lower it by removing a PS4 game from the stack holding them up if it gets too close to the light and I have never had stretchy seedlings.
 
FastFreddi said:
I'm sorry you disagree with tried and true methods...
FF
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I said I do not understand how reducing the light intensity from 10 to 5 by turning the light down then lowering the light to bring it back up to 10 changes things. If I disagreed I would have said "I disagreed..." rather than say, "I am unsure...".

I have seedlings a few days older than those right now and they stretched more than I want to see but they just popped out of the ground and shot up in a day. I lowered the light but the mature leaves started praying so I raised the light again.

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printer said:
I said I do not understand how reducing the light intensity from 10 to 5 by turning the light down then lowering the light to bring it back up to 10 changes things. If I disagreed I would have said "I disagreed..." rather than say, "I am unsure...".

I have seedlings a few days older than those right now and they stretched more than I want to see but they just popped out of the ground and shot up in a day. I lowered the light but the mature leaves started praying so I raised the light again.

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he just means turn the light intensity down, so that when you bring your light closer to your seedlings to stop them from stretching it wont burn them
 
DarkWeb said:
I think those are the smaller Solo cups bud......look at the Xbox games next to them.....
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You can tell by the lips of the cup. That is why I did not think they were as tall as if they were regular sized cups. I would wait a while before sinking them lower in dirt yet fro the reason given. Just support the stems.
 
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