Heat Stress? Too much water?

**sudodaemon** · 02-08-2012, 11:31 AM

I just have these in dixie cups, I'm not planing on doing a full grow with these plants. They are to simply test out my setup to make sure ventilation is good, temps are good, etc... Doing this with ditch seeds before I plant my Pineapple Chunk seeds. The leaves just look weird to me... when they first sprouted the leafs looked very healthy... now they look like they are rippling in the center... like pruning like skin does under water too much. But I'm not watering them THAT much so I'm clueless.

- As for water schedule, I've given these 2 week old plants water about every 3-4 days. I stick my finger down in the soil and if it feels dry about 2 inches down I water them.
- Growing Medium - Basic Potting soil, miracle grow I think
- Growing Indoors
- Stage of growth... only about 2 weeks old or so.

I have these plants under CFL lights right now... the 23 watt ones or something like that... the 100 watt incandescent equivalent. It's just one light per plant right now since they are so small. I have a fan lightly blowing on them at all times the lights are on, which is 18-6... I've used a probe to test temps and right at the plant it says it is 74 degrees... ranges from about 70-76 right now. I've had the CFL lights as close as about 1 inch and right now they are about 2-3 inches away from the plant. I moved them back for fear that what was happening was heat stress. Could the leaf problem be from the nutes that miracle grow puts in the soil? Again, just looking to learn here, once I iron out some small problems I'm having I'm putting my pineapple chunk in a DWC hydro system using the same lights.

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*BUDS · 02-08-2012, 11:34 AM

Cant see a problem there.

**bullwinkle60** · 02-08-2012, 11:34 AM

I wouldn't worry.

**RangerJ** · 02-08-2012, 11:35 AM

Yea they look good... I have a few with ripples too

**sudodaemon** · 02-08-2012, 11:56 AM

Ok, cool... Just wanted to be sure that way I could fix a problem earlier rather than later. Thanks guys.

**sudodaemon** · 02-08-2012, 01:12 PM

Ok, I'm still not convinced this is normal... my gut is just telling me something is wrong... After looking at these pics if you guys think I should stop worrying then I will, it just doesn't look right to me... What do you think? See how the leaves are like twisting and curling?
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**PeyoteReligion** · 02-08-2012, 01:15 PM

I see in the new pics. It looks like it may be overwatering.

**sudodaemon** · 02-08-2012, 01:29 PM

I just watered them yesterday, so that could explain why it got a LOT worse today... so in theory, if I just let this take its course and I stop overwatering them they should go back to normal within what, 5 days or so? I'm guessing the dixie cups aren't draining very well, lol, shocker, my last minute pot isn't working well.

**tyinman04** · 02-08-2012, 04:03 PM

How close is your light? I had an issue similar to this and believe it or not, i adjusted my lighting and she's the strongest growing plant i have now.