this is my second attempt at growing in the aerogarden and second attempt period. this first attempt i was growing papaya and it was going well. I had it set up in a rubbermaid storage closet like 4 feet wide 2 to 3 feet in deepth and and around 6 feet high. i have mylared it and have a fan hanging from the top. the plants had gotting too tall for the light so i detached the light and bought a new cord and plug the light in seperately. i rigged the light to hang from the ceiling of the cabinet unfortunatly it fell on the plants and that was that. the only concern i had was on one of the papaya plants at the bottom of the stem it looked like it formed a woody almost dead looking spot all the way around the stem a quarter of an inch wide. Now the reason i bring this up is its now on my second attempt.....so for my second attempt we lived and learned from the first. im now growing 3 blue mystics and one kaya gold (suppose to be two but the second never came up). all the seeds were feminized from a site i got them from. so now I cleaned out the aerogarden real good before doing this. got it started within four days they were sprouted .. theyve been doing really good its 3 days away from the end of the fifth week. the tallest plant is 13 inches tall one of the blue mystics...the two outer plants on the aerogarden in the front are blue mystics as well and they are about 6 to 7 inches tall and the middle one is the kaya gold and its shading more then the rest so its the smallest plant or could just be growing slower being its a different kind of weed. Now like i said they all seem to be doing good except i have that same issue back from the first grow where it looks like one of the plants on the bottom of the stem has that woody almost dead look about a quarter inch in width going all the way around the stem. if you look at my pictures on my profile you will see one of the pictures i tried to get as clear of a shot as i could with my crappy phone. this is my main concern. is there something wrong? is the plant suppose to do that? Now also i was using two shop ballist in the cabinet 4 feet tall each leaning against the corners with a total of four four feet daylight t 12s in there but seemed to get awfully hot so i shut them off and rigged something to go around the aerogarden so the plants wouldnt lean (afraid that the stems would break from the weight as they got taller) and then also put the aero garden light back on with the cord i had purchased from the first attempt. so i have just the aerogarden light going right now. being that i dont really know what im doing i could use some advice about lighting if anyone could take the time.
Now all i did for these plants was follow the exact instructions of the aerogarden. putting the nutrient tablets in when they said filling them with regular tap water. sometimes some poland springs when theres some in my room. i know ive been reading everyone saying to switch nutrients but they seem to be doing just fine..my room stays between 72 degrees F and 78 degrees F but not sure what it gets to in the cabinet. like i said im new at this so any advice would be great!
