to much light

cockeye · #1 04-11-2007, 01:17 PM

hi i started growing some white widow seedlins,but im abit new to this and went out and bought a600 watt deul spectrum hps bulb,the ww poped from the soil ok but are taking a long time to grow,is this light to much for them?

green_nobody · #2 04-11-2007, 01:31 PM

well you can never have enough light really till you got your own sun going, but then you got some really serious heat issue

be glad the it isn't shottin up like a rocket, that would be what we call stretchin then and that is a bad thing to have

videoman40 · #3 04-11-2007, 01:34 PM

Hey buddy, you need to tell us more, like how far is the light from your babies, what medium are they planted in, how often do you water? Nutes?
A pic is worth a 1000 words!
Peace

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Originally Posted by cockeye

hi i started growing some white widow seedlins,but im abit new to this and went out and bought a600 watt deul spectrum hps bulb,the ww poped from the soil ok but are taking a long time to grow,is this light to much for them?

green_nobody · #4 04-11-2007, 01:37 PM

that dual spec HPS you got ain't a bad thing by the way, fancy for sure to have, but is isn't the optima way to go really, you know. it can be too hot for the young seedlings, it ain't really in the spec for veg nor is it in the spec for flower too well either.

vegging can be done just great with a few CFLs in cool white spec, no heat issues and if you not veg till they get giants they will just do fine. for flower the simplest HPS do just fine and the go for half the price as a dual spec does. that doesn't implies that you have to kick it out really but if it is used up you won't have to get the same again, rather go for a bit cheaper normal one

green_nobody · #5 04-11-2007, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by videoman40

Hey buddy, you need to tell us more, like how far is the light from your babies, what medium are they planted in, how often do you water? Nutes?
A pic is worth a 1000 words!
Peace

hey video, it doesn't sound at this point like he really got some issue, rather like he is impatient just as we all been the first time

so far no S-O-S

cockeye · #6 04-11-2007, 02:12 PM

pics of my plants on the 10th day of poping out of the soil,this was a few days ago,i water them each morning i also have a fan flowing the air around,plus a large extracting fan at the top of the tent.

delta9 · #7 04-11-2007, 02:18 PM

i dont think your impatient, 10 days old should be bigger than that. what is your humidity?

cockeye · #8 04-11-2007, 02:24 PM

i no its sounds silly but i have'nt bought nethink to check the humidity.

delta9 · #9 04-11-2007, 02:26 PM

whats the temp?

green_nobody · #10 04-11-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by cockeye

pics of my plants on the 10th day of poping out of the soil,this was a few days ago,i water them each morning i also have a fan flowing the air around,plus a large extracting fan at the top of the tent.

well, ain't too tall, that is true... i would blame it on the light spec of the HPS, it is the same phenomenon i know from growers that used 2700K CFLs for growing in veg instead of 6500K

so since hps are rather in the 2000's K spec this could be the cause for it. humidity should be the trouble fact since you got large soil surfaces you water every day paired with a big hps and its heat.