[Seedling Problem] Couple of things wrong with this picture.

SeeingBlue

Active Member
Ok, in the picture I have uploaded there are a couple of things wrong.

1. My biggest concern is these leaves on the tallest plant. They are curling up . This happened 2 days ago when I got home all the plants the leaning over like they were leaning towards the light but I haven't moved them in days and they all of the sudden decide to fall over? Anyways.. I moved them from the soil into my hydroponics system where I have a PH of 6.0, and I've mixed All purpose plant food 24-8-16 into the water at full strenght(mistake probably, i know, too late.) So I placed them in the pot of peddle rocks and started watering him. In one day it lived back up.

Then I read that my plants where tall and weak because my light was probably to far away so I lowered it, within hours they have wiltered back to this stage. Now I'm not sure if this is because of the light(Which is a fluorescent spiral bulb(suppose to be "full spectrum")) or because I got scared when I came home and the rocks weren't wet so I thought my timer system wasn't working. I turned it on and forgot about it for about an hour :( So what do you guys think about problem number one?

2. On the small plant you can see that the leaves are getting eat up. But I never see any bugs and I don't know how they got here so fast. Also that plant has an extremely weak stem as you can see I have a bread tie holding it up.

A few other things I'd like to hear comments about is how I have the watering set up. I know it needs to be something a little more evenly distributable but I was afraid I was going to lose them if I didn't get them put into the pot soon. I didn't think this would be much of a problems since the root system is still small and directly under the plant, which is also why I temporarily put them in the same pot. I have the pumps set to come on every 8 hours(3 times a day) for 5 mins, and those rocks drain fast.. To much, not enough water?

Ok I think that's it. Tell me what you guys think.

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P@ssw0rd

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Can't help ya with the watering schedule but with all the mediums availible why use pebbles? Get a fan on them to strenthen the stems and the more/closer light to stop the stretch.

Good Luck
P@ssw0rd
 

SeeingBlue

Active Member
Thanks guys, I have lowered the light a bit. it's within 5in. of the tops. I used pebbles because there is no stores around here to order hydroponic equipment from and I didn't feel like waiting for shipping. I'm impatient.

I'll also be sure to bury them deeper, thanks for the advice.
 
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