canadianreefer
Well-Known Member
Alright so I germinated two seeds; one flying dutchmen white widow and one soma seeds nyc diesel, both feminized, both germinated very nicely.
So I planted them today. After speaking with, 'johnny', who likes to offer me advice with my plants, he suggested that my HPS system may be the problem in that it's drying out all the soil while the seeds are just starting to pop out of the soil, hence the reason they don't make it.
So I decided to use my 4x 42W CFL deal this time around since there's less heat output therefore less of a chance of drying out the soil.
I was just wondering if any of you have had the same problem where your HPS system just sucks the soil dry? And what do you do about the problem?
My HPS light's about 2 feet from my pots and the temp around the pots is comfortable, not too warm, but says it's 90F and when I put my fan on it's either too strong and knocks over the pots or it only lowers it to about 80F at lowest.
Should I mist twice daily in this case? I'm scared of overwatering though...
I'm really at a loss because it's either too hot or the pots seem waaaay too far away from the light. Can I virtually lower the pots/raise the light until the temperature is ok or is there a 'limit' sa to how far the light can be?
It's a 250W MH.
Thanks in advance.
So I planted them today. After speaking with, 'johnny', who likes to offer me advice with my plants, he suggested that my HPS system may be the problem in that it's drying out all the soil while the seeds are just starting to pop out of the soil, hence the reason they don't make it.
So I decided to use my 4x 42W CFL deal this time around since there's less heat output therefore less of a chance of drying out the soil.
I was just wondering if any of you have had the same problem where your HPS system just sucks the soil dry? And what do you do about the problem?
My HPS light's about 2 feet from my pots and the temp around the pots is comfortable, not too warm, but says it's 90F and when I put my fan on it's either too strong and knocks over the pots or it only lowers it to about 80F at lowest.
Should I mist twice daily in this case? I'm scared of overwatering though...
I'm really at a loss because it's either too hot or the pots seem waaaay too far away from the light. Can I virtually lower the pots/raise the light until the temperature is ok or is there a 'limit' sa to how far the light can be?
It's a 250W MH.
Thanks in advance.