Plant wont hold itself up.

I'm having trouble with my first plant, it's about two weeks in and a couple inches tall. It's very top heavy, and can' hold itself up without upport from a rock or something else, any ideas on whats causing this?

It has a weak stem, I have the same problem with a couple of mine. Use an oscillating fan in your grow room to strengthen the stem. Put it on the low setting, think light breeze not tropical storm

bury her up to her leaves...like 1/2 inch below her leaves exposed. I had the same problem.

I stuck mine in a bigger pot and burried her deeper

RogueGunslinger said:

I'm having trouble with my first plant, it's about two weeks in and a couple inches tall. It's very top heavy, and can' hold itself up without upport from a rock or something else, any ideas on whats causing this?

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the cause is bad germinating and lighting use.

SunnyDaze said:

bury her up to her leaves...like 1/2 inch below her leaves exposed. I had the same problem.

I stuck mine in a bigger pot and burried her deeper

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my stem was really thin and the plant was leaning, so i piled up about an inch of the soil right around the stem, left like a half or quarter inch to the embryo leaves...it helped it stand straighter, and now a couple of weeks in that stem is getting really thick...also people advise against it but you could put a VERY light dose of high Phosphorus nutes, this helps with stem and root strength

Thanks everyone. I'll re-think my germinating process, the plants have been buried a bit more, looking good. Got a new lighting system as well today.

Thanks again.

what did you do to germinate? the thing i've found works is leave the seeds in a half filled shotglass in complete dark for 24-48 hours, some may sprout while in there, either way, after that you put them in between six moist but not sopping wet paper towels in the dark, usually on a plate with another plate or bowl over it, within 48-96 hours they should sprout...