First grow, leaves curling/discoloring. Please help

Okay, so from the beginning I started with the plan in a cup with a single 40w CFL. Got it up to about two weeks 8" tall, and transplanted to the pot. Now I'm getting some issues with the plant. Been doing 24hrs for past 3.5 weeks now. At first, I had a 200W huge curly style CFL I managed to find at Home Depot. It was at 2700K though, so I had to change from my sloppy setup. Left it that way for maybe 3-4 days with no fans. My current setup is one 250w FelizLight HighPower CFL 6500K on top, and four 20w fluorescent lights surrounding. Some aluminum foil around the sides to save some light, and 3 fans blowing some air around. Just hearing that this is not the best choice for a soil. I've got MiracleGrow moisture control potting soil, and tap water that sits for a few days before going into the pot. Been watering when the pot got fairly light... not trying to over-water. I didn't really know what to do when this curling and discoloring started happening. All I could make out was to maybe try a flush, so I watered until I got a decent bit of run-off. After the flush, its been 5 days since last water and the pot is still holding a good bit of water... Maybe adding so much water to flush is bad for the moisture-absorbent MG soil? Don't know, but so far no other issues besides the persistent curling and discoloring of my leaves. Working its way from the bottom to the top a little more each day. Whats happening? Should I just let it ride out and tough it out? Does this soil contain anything that could cause my plant to do this? Was it the few days of heat it had more than a week ago? Pics are current. Thanks for any help!

The yellowing at the bottom of the plant is normal, You'll probably wanna start feeding them soon and you won't get that yellowing. But over all it looks pretty healthy

it def looks like nute burn probably off the mg soil, apparently the more you water it the more food it releases, i would transplant into fresh soil (not mg) good luck

mg soil feeds for up to 3 month if im not mistaking so if there only 3 weeks old there will be loads of nutes left in soil

thanks for the feedback guys, we'll see how it goes. maybe attempt a transplant, dont know how i'll get most of this fert'd soil away from my roots

your tips on the newgrowth look like they could be showing the start of nuteburn ... nothing serious yet but .. I'd keep an eye on it and be ready to flush if need be ....

when you guys flush, exactly how much run-off do you allow? probably a 2.5 gallon pot. miracle grow has constant release balls in this mix, so we will see how much i can flush from the actual soil. and does my distance of my light from the plant look okay to you guys?

lovenest420 said:

when you guys flush, exactly how much run-off do you allow? probably a 2.5 gallon pot. miracle grow has constant release balls in this mix, so we will see how much i can flush from the actual soil. and does my distance of my light from the plant look okay to you guys?

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Looks good set up to veg a plant, might be a bit of heat stress. Install a small exhaust fan with thermostat in there and move the old warm air out of the growroom and grow area.