Hi guys no pics to upload at present so i will try describe it as best as poss!
i have 5 barneys blue cheese, i soaked and planted them in jiffys and within a day they had shot up and out, then continued to grow fast everyday upder my desk lamp, after a week and the first true set of leaves appeared i popped them in my tent under a 600W dual spectrum, temps were a little warm 30C for a few days and they seemed to slow down a little, so i added another fan and temps are now pretty consistent 27-28C and 20 at night, i added a very dilute dose of hesi root complex COCO to my water about 1m/l and started using that thinking it may help them along, but it doesnt seem to have had an effect, they continue to get paler almost as if they are losing there green?? 2 weeks from when they popped out and i still only have 2 sets of true leaves the size of a fingernail??? this is slow right?? so im back to giving them just water now but havent noticed an improvement!!!!
But then last night i thought i havent actually measured the distance from plant to the light!!! i did this and it was 20 inches!!!!
This is tooo close right?? could this have been my problem?? i have now doubled that distance and hope to see an improvement.
What do you guys think?? was it the early dose of root complex or more likeyly the light???? and do u think they will recover??

any help and comments welcome as i am a total newbie!
cheers

hello mate.

Compost grower here so not to sure bout coco..

As theres no nute atall in coco ya gonna have to start feeding then very low doses. As the plants increase in size up the nute levels.

So you more than lightly are right to feed but how much, some one else will help you with that!

As your light goes a 600 is a lot of light for seedlings but still useable. Its gonna cost a lot more to run for 1.
A 125cfl would be ideal and you can get that nearly touching ya s-lings.

A 600w light would have to be atleast 1mtr away i would say. Thats why its not financaly benifical. Would be if you had say 1000 seedlings coz the light spread will be very wide and your'll only be using a small % of it.

Check greens horti. they sell complete 125cfl's for about £40.

Get the right tools for the job and you'll have a lot less stressful grow!

Atb geez

hantshaze.....

Im defo gonna check out the cfls for sure! cheers dude!