Day 10: First time grower and a bit worried...

buckateerberk

buckateerberk

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http://imgur.com/gallery/cOlbB

Here's a few photos from today.

This is my first grow. Growing from seed of unknown origin in a Space Bucket.
Soil is Brunnings Seed Raising Mix (I now realise this might not be the ideal choice for my purpose - bark chips and a bit 'hot') and I've been running the light 20 ON/4 OFF (using a 180W UFO LED and 5m 5050 LED strips around the sides of the bucket). I have been balancing the pH of the water around 6.5 and I realised I had been running the bucket slightly warm the last few days (around 85-90 degrees f) so I've switched the side LEDs off to cool it down for now. (Oh, and I intend to transplant these into some more suitable soil - Debco Organic Mix, as soon as possible.)

As you can see there's this weird purple/brown discolouration on the edges and the cotyledons are yellowing. Growth has been very slow the last 4 or 5 days.

Any advice at how to make my little plants look a little happier would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
 
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fleshfeast

Active Member
I couldnt open your photos on my phone but being a first time grower, slow growth, suspecting problem I can tell you now that more often than not it's a new growers over attention that causes most problems than anything.

Most of use early on start in with the wrong soi, you can expect slow growth from doing this. Is that a bad thing? Not really. What is a bad thing is transplanting early just to speed things up and damaging the fragile roots early on in the grow. Seedlings need very little, low light light, very little watering and little to no nutrients. If things are slow but healthy let it ride but you learned a valuable lesson when selecting soils for your next grow. When it's ready for a transplant right around the time you'd be setting up conditions for veg give it soil better suited for cannabis.
 
mike4c4

mike4c4

Well-Known Member
buckateerberk said:
http://imgur.com/gallery/cOlbB

Here's a few photos from today.

This is my first grow. Growing from seed of unknown origin in a Space Bucket.
Soil is Brunnings Seed Raising Mix (I now realise this might not be the ideal choice for my purpose - bark chips and a bit 'hot') and I've been running the light 20 ON/4 OFF (using a 180W UFO LED and 5m 5050 LED strips around the sides of the bucket). I have been balancing the pH of the water around 6.5 and I realised I had been running the bucket slightly warm the last few days (around 85-90 degrees f) so I've switched the side LEDs off to cool it down for now. (Oh, and I intend to transplant these into some more suitable soil - Debco Organic Mix, as soon as possible.)

As you can see there's this weird purple/brown discolouration on the edges and the cotyledons are yellowing. Growth has been very slow the last 4 or 5 days.

Any advice at how to make my little plants look a little happier would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
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yea soil is too hot get her out of there.
 
SweetHayz

SweetHayz

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I agree with mike4c4 it looks like ur soil is very hot.
Yellowing cotyledons indicates that the plant cant feed itself from the roots.
Get her out of there before its too late to recover.
 
buckateerberk

buckateerberk

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mike4c4 said:
yea soil is too hot get her out of there.
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SweetHayz said:
I agree with mike4c4 it looks like ur soil is very hot.
Yellowing cotyledons indicates that the plant cant feed itself from the roots.
Get her out of there before its too late to recover.
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What's the best way of going about this at this stage? I tried to do a bit of a flush tonight. I don't wanna definitely kill them by transplanting them at this stage.
 
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