Stretching

Hello,

I have just started some seedlings and I had the fluoroscents to far away and they stretched and now I dont know what to do.

Ive moved them close to the light and put a fan on them, there stretched about 2.5inches to the first node after 5 days from germination. I plan on moving them outdoors so I just need to make their stems strong to hold up thier own weight.

Any help would be much appreciated

you cant do much except keep the light closer now put a fan on it like you said.

If they are stretched so bad they dont want to stand you could try putting a little extra soil mix around the base of the stem so they end up having to support a little less of their weight. I did that with a couple seedlings before. The most important thing is just to make sure they get enough light now.

Yeah 3 fell over so Im going to do what you mentioned above, However i did move the lights close and they have since stopped stretching and began to grow leaves. thanks for the input