My first grow

Daithy

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Make sure the wind is not too hard on the seedlings. I would not put the fans directly to them for at least a week and a half. Cheers!
Jeez, thanks for the advice :cool:, I had it on, so I turned it off now. Can you please tell me something about my previous post "UPDATE ON PH", thank you kindly.
 

GrowinDad

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Adjust everything you feed her to 6.5. It can not hurt.

I would figure out intake. In flower, she needs 12 hours of total darkness. Hard to do with a door open. Plus when it is open odor will get out.
 

Daithy

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Adjust everything you feed her to 6.5. It can not hurt.

I would figure out intake. In flower, she needs 12 hours of total darkness. Hard to do with a door open. Plus when it is open odor will get out.
UPDATE: I think that one of my plant's leaves are starting to curl, maybe it's normal or it's just me. The following 3 pics are of the same plant.

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Daithy

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I guess no one's around. Anyway, I might have found the cause which is Low Humidity. My humidity is at around 38% in the past two days. So anyone facing the same problem, check your humidity.
 

Daithy

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TIP:

What I did now is: I boiled the kettle and after boiling had finished, I brought it to my room with my babies and left the cover open to let all the steam out, so we will see if that works, might have to repeat that throughout the day :).
 

Daithy

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Adjusting the moisture didn't do much, of course it needs time, so I also raised the light a little, they might be too close.
 

althor

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i didnt mean to start an argument... i just wanted to learn to avoid this i really want to be able to grow .-.

Too much nutrients in that really bad soil.
You have burned them, but not light burned, nutrient burned.
For seedlings, you don't want nutrients in the soil.
 

althor

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I guess no one's around. Anyway, I might have found the cause which is Low Humidity. My humidity is at around 38% in the past two days. So anyone facing the same problem, check your humidity.
Nah, that isn't your problem. I have very low humidity during winter since I use heaters in the room.
Never have anything near like that from low humidity.
 

althor

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Place your seed in the soil with the taproot facing upwards.
The tap root already has a curve in it naturally. It will curl around the seed and go down. As it does this, it will drag the opened seed through the soil and help remove the shell. When it pops out, it is ready to go.
 

Daithy

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Place your seed in the soil with the taproot facing upwards.
The tap root already has a curve in it naturally. It will curl around the seed and go down. As it does this, it will drag the opened seed through the soil and help remove the shell. When it pops out, it is ready to go.
Thanks. Plants are about 5 days old now; aside from the small one, that one showed up only yesterday, most of them look okay; but one is still curling up, and another one is kinda very bright green, kinda yellowish green. Should I be worried?IMG_20131129_175027.jpgIMG_20131129_175043.jpgIMG_20131129_175056.jpgIMG_20131129_175114.jpgIMG_20131129_175120.jpg
 

leels

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Might just be me, but they look a bit stretched/rangy in the last set of pics. Something to consider.
 

Daithy

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No, you're kinda right, actually...I'll post some pics later on....just not:sleep: able for it now with the hangover I have right now :D
 

althor

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Thanks. Plants are about 5 days old now; aside from the small one, that one showed up only yesterday, most of them look okay; but one is still curling up, and another one is kinda very bright green, kinda yellowish green. Should I be worried?View attachment 2911449View attachment 2911450View attachment 2911452View attachment 2911453View attachment 2911454

I think they will be fine. Sometimes the soil can be just abit hot and cause some burning in small seedlings. They should push right through it and the next nodes will pop out nice green leaves.
 

Daithy

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Right, some new pics here. There is definitely growth, but they are starting to curl up again. I just don't know what to do.IMG_20131203_172438.jpgIMG_20131203_172448.jpgIMG_20131203_172454.jpgIMG_20131203_172500.jpgIMG_20131203_172507.jpgIMG_20131203_172520.jpgIMG_20131203_172605.jpgIMG_20131203_172612.jpg
 

Daithy

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I am moving up the light because it obviously isn't the nutes since I have not used any yet; it's not temp, my average temp is 24 degrees C; the humidity is 40-ish%; and my fan is blowing directly at the plants—I admit that my fan is not the best but for now it should be sufficient. It has to be the light.
 

Daithy

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UPDATE:

Is this a regular growth for 11 days — talking about the bigger ones of course, there are some newer ones which are only about 5–6 days old?

Also, when can I start feeding? I think they usually say 3 weeks, so I guess I should wait.

Current measurements: pH of water going in 6.4; pH of run-off 6.2
PPMs of water going in 220; PPMs of run-offs 700

So what do you guys think?

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Daithy

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UPDATE:

They are almost 4 weeks old now. Well, the biggest ones are, the smaller ones are about nearly 3 weeks. I have had some problems with soil and heat/low-moisture stress, so some leaves look like canoes. I mistakenly bought a soil which was fortified. I flushed the buckets last week to get rid of some of the nutes since I didn't know what was actually in it. I gave them their 1st feed yesterday of 1/4 strength and small bit of epsom salt; they seemed to be Mg deficient, but it's hard to say since it could be heat stress or nute burn. Anyway, I hope my babies will pull through and get healthier.

P.S. I have only one extractor ducting, and everyone was saying: when you have only one vent, it must be output. So I had it that way, but it was getting dry and hot in the room while outside it's always wet and cold. So I said to myself fuck it, and I reversed the fans so it draws in outside air, and left the door a little open. I don't care it it smells in the house. I might put be back in flowering, but in vegging I need more moisture and colder air when the lamp is on 18/6 as it heats up the whole room.

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