The strain is blubonic and the growth medium is coco. This is my first grow as well. I germed the seeds in a wet paper towel and they all worked fine. I thought I'd skip the rockwool cubes and go directly into the small 500ml coco crouton pots, so that's what I did (this was probably a mistake). I also used a low dilution of nutes from the beginning, which I now know was also a mistake. Anyways I stopped the nutes a week ago (these are now two weeks old) and have been feeding with plain water for a week, flushing once daily. THe stems have all been shriveling up and dying and I don't know why. I tested the PH yesterday it was around 7, so I flushed them all with ph5 water to get the crotuons down to ph 6 but no improvement yet. The other day the leaves all strted to point upwards (see pics).
I'm thinking this may be a calcium, deficiency, as I inspected the roots from some other seedlings that had died earlier, and the roots were brown in places and not very developed overall.
Light started out as a single CFL overhead about 15" away from the plants for the first week, and they also recieved some indirect daylight. At the end of this week a few of the stems were beginning to shrivel, so a built a much brighter light box for them with three 54W T5 bulbs (15K lumens) about 4 inches away. SInce going in the box though there has been no new grwoth and things ahve only gotten worse!
I'm pretty sure this first batch of ten is a loss, but I don't want to repeat it again so I'd really like to figure out what the problem is.
Here's the stem issue:
And here you can see the leaves pointing upwards:
I'm thinking this may be a calcium, deficiency, as I inspected the roots from some other seedlings that had died earlier, and the roots were brown in places and not very developed overall.
Light started out as a single CFL overhead about 15" away from the plants for the first week, and they also recieved some indirect daylight. At the end of this week a few of the stems were beginning to shrivel, so a built a much brighter light box for them with three 54W T5 bulbs (15K lumens) about 4 inches away. SInce going in the box though there has been no new grwoth and things ahve only gotten worse!
I'm pretty sure this first batch of ten is a loss, but I don't want to repeat it again so I'd really like to figure out what the problem is.
Here's the stem issue:
And here you can see the leaves pointing upwards: