I'd get the lights a lot closer. Your plants are stretching. Like maybe 2-3 inches away with the lights. They shouldn't be very hot, so don't worry. Those flouros will be good for early stages of vegging, but when you transplant to bigger pots, I'd get some good cfl's or a MH setup.

Hermies from transplanting? Sounds like you have a bit of info mixed up. Some people say stress and lots of heat can influence sex. I'm not to sure about that. If you rip some roots when transplanting, that can cause some stress. But if you transplant right, you shouldn't have any problems. I'd get some better soil when you transplant. Somethan organic like Fox Farms Ocean Forrest.

PH is a very big thing here. You can do a lot of bad things, but from experience, if you have your waters ph thrown off, you will kill the plants quick. So get a ph test kit for your water. Your ph might be to high, so for that you will want to get some ph down. There are house hold ways to lower the ph, but I would just go get some ph down. You can find this at your local pet store or anywhere where they carry aquarium shit. It will probably run you like 2-4 bucks.

Looks like you need a thermometer and humidity gauge as well. You can pick one up at Wal-Mart for real cheap. It will tell you temp and humidity. Good temps will read 70-85, no higher then 85. Humidity for veg is good at 45-60 percent. Can't get your humidity levels up? Go pick you up a cheap humidifier. You can find those at Wal-Mart as well. They are in the pharmacy section.

Get some fans if you don't have those either, will make good for circulation.

As you get more into this, you might feel that you need more stuff. Just take a look at other peoples grow journals. Good luck my friend.

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