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I think more light is more, really and HPS have a much more punch than CFL's - however they have more heat too and they can easily fry seedlings. You can put CFL's right up close ( 1 inch close) to seedlings and not worry too much. The other thing is that HPS have a bias towards red...
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do you mean that the the seed casing was still attached to/ covering the first two sprouts - that happens - so you should check it - don;t know whether the plant will live, but if it's the above you replanted it upside down
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Andy
Hey - thanks Ganja- I am using distilled water so I guess 1/5 - 1/8 will be cool - do you wait until the first leaves look like leaves, or until you see them start to form near the split between the first sprout leaves
Prolly a dumb question, but I don't have an endless supply of bag seeds:mrgreen:
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yeah I just put them in the fold of some paper towel wet with distilled water in a couple of small dishes taped together - then I put the set up on my broadband modem as the dishes are only about 5 cms across. This gives it enough heat - but the towel dries out pretty readily so you have...
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I am about to put some germinated seeds in rock wool - I have soaked the rock wool in lowered ph water for a while so they should be pretty much ok in ph.
The guy at the Hydro store says half strength nutes in the water as soon as I see the first real leaves coming through -...
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I am germing some seeds in my dishes and I was checking out the moisture in the towels when one of the seeds rolled off the paper towel and across the table. :roll:
It dropped a fair way from the dish to the table - which is cold glass and it took about a minute to find. The...