you either need more light or need to move it closer there stretched to shit
Heyy, Well decided to start growing my own harvest of these bad boys and im looking for any input that could help me out and ill keep this thread updated. Anyway lets get to the newbie stuff.
I had orginally began growing them outside on a porch but decided to move them in. I bought some cheap flourecent lights from walmart til i recently purchased a Full Spectrum LED Light(620nm) that now sits about 18" above the plants.
Theyre in a small pots. In Miracle Grow For Fruits and Vegetation or something like that. I also give them Miracle Grow All purpose Plant Food every 2 weeks. Other then that normal water every 2 days or so. Theres a total of 7 plants that im starting with. Just to see how it goes.
They're in a closet and here a some pictures of the actual plants. I've had the bottom smaller leaves fall off of one of the plants and some are looking like they are starting to turn a little yellow. I think i also might have a small gnat problem i tried the Cigarette Buds in Warm Water and Spray'em trick. and also put small tubs of water and soak in between the plants for insects or w.e.. not sure if it works but w.e lol. cant harm it.
(the one that had the bottom leaves fall off)
Well. Any advice of comments or if you just wanna make fun of me. Will be appreciated! Thanks!
Happy Growing!
you either need more light or need to move it closer there stretched to shit
How old are they? They look way too small for nutes. That light probably isn't strong enough.
Awww come on no need to make fun man!! But yeah the above poster is correct, move your lights a lot closer so that the space between the leaf sets (internodes) are closer together. If you dont you'll have yourself some very tall flimsy plants! Tall does not mean more yieldAnd for the feeding schedule, i would lay off any fertilizing before you begin to see a slight yellowing in the bottom leaves. Most Miracle grow soil has a lot of fertilizer out of the bag.
Must lower the light or they will just keep reaching. That happened to me in hydro so I just replanted them with the first leaves above the top of planter and it worked. But lights must be lowered;
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LEd lights can be moved way down over the plant they emit less heat than florecent. Also, seperate those plants this will create more problems than you want to deal with. When you do this add more perolite to allow evaperation. With no heat source to trigger evap your plants will remain wet and eventualy stunt, or die. Also your miricle grow soil will have all the nutes these thing will need for now. In fact they have more than the desired amount. Time realese soils and nutrients are not recomended. You can use these, but in fact are hard to regulate. A soil as close to 0.0-0.0-0.0 is more preferable for clones and seedlings. Black Gold is a good organic bag potting soil ( add more perolite) npk values are 0.05-0.0-0.0 and has a wide spectrum of micro and secondary macro nutrients. This is available in most garden centers and landscape garden nursurys.
Last edited by melungeonman; 06-08-2012 at 12:30 PM.
They're supposeto be about a month old. X.x
What kind of LED is that? Unfortunately, theres still a lot of ripoff companies out there selling units that won't produce. I also grow with LED's and can definitely say I've never seen that much stretching
Well i just recently installed the LED Lights about 2 Days ago i installed them. They were Outside counting on the sun. I think thats why they stretched. This light says its a full spectrum 620-660nm led grow light. I was thinking maybe with the LED now closer to the plants it'll reduce the stretch. I also went out and bought Plain Soil with no added nutes. so im planning to remove some top Miracle grow and replace it with regular top soil like Black Gold. Any other Suggestions?
Last edited by PRBudman; 06-08-2012 at 09:55 PM.
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