Hello fellow smokers, I have been browsing this forum for about a month, and have decided to start my own grow. Currently my setup is rather cheap, but within the coming week(s) I plan on moving it entirely into my closet. Right now my seedlings are about 4 days old and are in a 3.5'x1.5'x10" speaker box.
Here is my problem, I had about 5 seedlings going fine in there for about a day or two now I only have two left. The others have just gotten really droopy and shriveled up to nothing. I have a soil moisture meter and have been testing the soil daily. It keeps getting BONE dry, so dry that when I put the meter in it damn near pulls the entire thing of soil out of the small 2 1/4" jiffy pot. The last two days I have been putting anywhere to 2-4 TSP of water in. I have a small fan going in there aswell. The light I am using is a CFL 27w 5500k. I had three in there before but it just got too hot in that box. So right now I just have 2 plants one is 4 days old and the other is 2 (hasn't lost its shell yet).
My setup I plan to have done within a week or two, after I clear out my closet, is as follows:
6'x2.5'x2.5' with exhaust fans at top.
FOR VEGGING
3x 27w CFL 5500k
4x 40w 5500k T12 shop lights
FOR FLOWERING
2x 42w CFL 2700k
4x 40w 3100k T12 shop lights
Please tell me what you think of my setup, and please any light on what may be wrong with my seedlings? Thanks a lot!!
Here is my problem, I had about 5 seedlings going fine in there for about a day or two now I only have two left. The others have just gotten really droopy and shriveled up to nothing. I have a soil moisture meter and have been testing the soil daily. It keeps getting BONE dry, so dry that when I put the meter in it damn near pulls the entire thing of soil out of the small 2 1/4" jiffy pot. The last two days I have been putting anywhere to 2-4 TSP of water in. I have a small fan going in there aswell. The light I am using is a CFL 27w 5500k. I had three in there before but it just got too hot in that box. So right now I just have 2 plants one is 4 days old and the other is 2 (hasn't lost its shell yet).
My setup I plan to have done within a week or two, after I clear out my closet, is as follows:
6'x2.5'x2.5' with exhaust fans at top.
FOR VEGGING
3x 27w CFL 5500k
4x 40w 5500k T12 shop lights
FOR FLOWERING
2x 42w CFL 2700k
4x 40w 3100k T12 shop lights
Please tell me what you think of my setup, and please any light on what may be wrong with my seedlings? Thanks a lot!!