First Grow... plants drooping, have pics please help!!!

Hey guys this is my first grow i have a 200 w Metal haloid light on the plants, and they are 14 days old i dont know if this is normal or not but from how they are looking its not doing so good. any suggestions please!!!!!!! the ladies need some help!!!

as u can tell the plants are tied up to sticks not tight at all just enough to hold them up.. but if they are not help up by the sticks they fall over... any suggestion???? all the plants are about between 7-8 inches tall tallest is close to 9 1/2

daygo4lyfe said:

Hey guys this is my first grow i have a 200 w Metal haloid light on the plants, and they are 14 days old i dont know if this is normal or not but from how they are looking its not doing so good. any suggestions please!!!!!!! the ladies need some help!!!

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holy god get those lights closer!

Those look like they were grown in the dark with only the seed nutes rofl, yea get some light on those suckers they are stretching in search of that fucker

look almost like they were grown upsidedown, x3 on the light being too far. hopefully those stems thicken up or they gonna be some disables ass plants.

omg them some lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng ass stems get a reptile light on em

lol thats crazy but as everyone is saying m8 get you lights closer ALOT closer

Start Over!!! ....

Yeah, get the light closer. Also when transplanting, bury the stem up to about an inch or two from the first node.

Diddo on what everyone else said, you need your light closer to them. Remember, the closer you keep them to the light, the closer your nodes will be together on the plants, therefore creating gigantic colas rather than little popcorn nugs on the plants when they are done.

Depending on your timetable I would just start over and grow some new ones since those have stretched out so far. That long thin stem isn't going to be good for plant growth later on.

You can also try using fluorescent tubes to light your seedlings and clones. They don't get that hot so you can put them really close to the seedlings without burning them. If you keep using the MH light, get it as close to the plants as you can without it feeling hot. You should be able to hold your hand where the plant tops are for a whole minute and not have it get hot. With seedlings it is easy to burn them though if you're not careful so the fluorescent tubes might work better for you.

@daygo4lyfe:

-plant theme over in a bigger container, plant the hole plant to the first leaves above the ground. (first leaves don't know the name)
Than put your light (if not hps) about 5-10 cm above the plants and give theme 24 or 18 hours light.

Don't put that 200w MH lamp 5-10 cm from your plants! If you got some flourescent tubes that would be about the right distance away, but not with that MH!

iff NOT hps, don't know how manny watt he got,

a 200 watt, put 25-30 cm above the plants.....

thanks guys, i put the lamp alot closer to the plants and it seemed to help them alot the stems are not thickening up that much i will post pictures later thanks again! also i purchased a 150 W Daylight light bulb its a reptile light bulb would that be a good bulb to add to the plants?

If that 150 is a MH light then yeah it would be good to give them some more light when they get older. Like I posted before make sure you can hold your hand at the plant level for 60 seconds without it getting hot to make sure the little seedlings don't burn! That said, you do want the lights as close as you can get them without it getting hot to keep the plants from stretching so much.

Also, you should do as Dutchgrower suggested and add some more dirt to help support the long stems if you're going to keep them. You can put dirt up to an inch or two from the bottom leaves to help support the plants. Seriously though it's only 2 weeks, and those stems are REALLY stretched, you might be better off starting over.

If you transplant these into soil, I dont think I would bury them as deep as having the soil 1'' below the first node. If you did that, then you would have like 5'' of stem under dirt until you actually get to the root. With 5'' of bare stem under the soil, you would probably end up with some kind of stem rot

bwatte said:

If you transplant these into soil, I dont think I would bury them as deep as having the soil 1'' below the first node. If you did that, then you would have like 5'' of stem under dirt until you actually get to the root. With 5'' of bare stem under the soil, you would probably end up with some kind of stem rot

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Yeah I think something bad like this will probably happen too, which is why I suggest you start over on these since you only have 2 weeks invested so far . . ..

Antigen said:

Yeah I think something bad like this will probably happen too, which is why I suggest you start over on these since you only have 2 weeks invested so far . . ..

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Ya I learned this the hard way. I kept screwing up plants my first grow so much that they ended up like 6'' tall after a month! hahah And this was starting from a clone! I think I had to chop em down and re root like 3 times due to some random screw up. Finally I was like, screw it, these plants probably wont even yield a gram for as much stress they have gone through. Lesson learned

Thanks everyone for your input, its helped a lot! Now we're going to be starting a new germination on a few new seeds soon, what's the best fertilizer to use if any? Also, any other suggestions for this new batch we're starting right off the bat? We want these ladies to be successful!

Make sure you're using a good potting soil that doesn't contain time-release fertilizers (don't use any Miracle Grow dirt either).

Make sure your light is the correct distance away so they don't stretch out like that again!

You don't want to put fertilizers on your plants until they are at least 2-3 weeks old. As long as you get a good potting soil (I use Fox Farm Ocean Forest) that will be plenty of food for their first few weeks of life.