Soil Seedlings, Look Slightly deprived? (pics)

Room temp - 68-70f @ night, 75-78f with lights on (cfl's)

Humidity - ~50

FFOF soil

PH'd tap water at 6-6.5

- Largest plant is showing the problem the most, its lowest most fan leaves are slightly leathery and curling. I have not put them on any nutes yet. The largest plant is about 12 days old and the smallest ones around 9 days, what do you experts think?

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I've had the same problem. I thought at first it could have been just low humidity since my room used to hover around 30% no matter what I did, but it wasn't that (bought humidifier.) What I've noticed is when I spray seedlings big water droplets wont fall off the leaves, causing them to contort and grow a little funky and cause concentrated heat spots, I started boiling the water I use for misting and bought a good sprayer that would oxidate the water more, causing littler water droplets, and allowing the droplets to drip off the leaves. After doing that my plants started looking normal again after a day or two. This may not be your problem, but it worked for me. Keep us posted!

Thanks for the input, at this point in time I'm doing all watering through the soil with no foliar feeding. Although when they where sprouts i did indeed keep them moist with a little sprits now and then.

I also forgot to mention, the veins on the leaves appear to be turning yellow along with slightly pink stalks.

Hmmm. And all of your plants are like this? You haven't added any nutes or anything like that to the soil? and your using fox farm ocean right? I'm at day 15 with the same soil and everything your using, with no problems... Usually when your leaves start to pale, your lacking nitrogen and just need an all purpose fert. for the most part, but it shouldn't be so soon it the plants life. The one time all my seedlings leaves started turning yellowish and pale it was because I was using shitty soil, but seeing as your using fox farm o.f that shouldn't be the case. How far away are you mounting your CFL's?

Lights are about 4-5" off the plants, running 6x27w 5000k, and 4x24w 2700k. Could i be putting too much light stress on them?

reh420 said:

Lights are about 4-5" off the plants, running 6x27w 5000k, and 4x24w 2700k. Could i be putting too much light stress on them?

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Quite Possibly, especially if you've had it like that their whole life. Try backing off for a while and just run your 5000k and see what happens. You should probably pick up another pack of 4 5000k and swap them with your 2700k ones, they really need the blue(er) spectrum of light until they go into flowering.

fourtw0 said:

Quite Possibly, especially if you've had it like that their whole life. Try backing off for a while and just run your 5000k and see what happens. You should probably pick up another pack of 4 5000k and swap them with your 2700k ones, they really need the blue(er) spectrum of light until they go into flowering.

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-For sure, I was under the impression that mixing spectrums (with more blue obviously) was the best way to veg.

Yeah it defiantly couldn't hurt at the most, I've tried mixing the two and not and noticed better results by just using the blue bulbs, however I still put 1 red one in there for the hell of it

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