hello i am a new one and i like to have some expert advice. i did the tissue method and 9 of my 10 seeds open5 skunk#1 5 shiva santi but i did one mistake i diden't pout light for the first time over the plant so the start have a bit of long stems.

they start off with a bit of a stretch m8, then the stem will fill out.

have you got any airflowing on them?

if you are realy worried, make them a litle splint to keep them upright, and then when you repot, pot a little lower into the new pot.

I have had to do that with 1 of mine, she was falling over under the weight of her 2 first real leaves !!

good luck

my plant now is 14 days no dark under 2 enviro 120w 2 floro 8w.

i repot 1 of them just to test and i also pout some plastik to help them stand up, i thing today is bit of beter. i have air extractor and new air come in but not somthing like pc fan i dont thing this is gona help cos the stems is too thin!

Husq,
How far away are the lights? If they are too far away, the babies will stretch towards it. Also, as Dohped said, if you can get a little bit of air movement across them, in my limited experience, it will give you stronger stems, as they are trying to resist being moved by the breeze. A small pc fan would do for now.

BM

ill try it dood i all ready repot some of them and tomorow ill try the pc fan. thanks man!

the light is about 3-4 cm from plant.

this is my grow box hand made.

this one is a bit of stretch.

and this is my best one, she has red stem. i hop she!

my temp is 23-24c and humidity 50-55% is that ok?

Yes m8

As far as I know, the IDEAL humidity range is 40-60%, but they will easily grow some 20% either side of that figure, but of course you are then opening yourself to encounter problems...

Temps, aim for 75F whatever that is in centigrade

Your plants are looking good so far, although the downside of growing from seed is that you don't know the sex of the plant in some strains until about nine weeks, I am hoping for you that they will be nice sexy ladies

As everyone has said, try and get a gentle breeze going over your seedlings, and when you come to repot, just plant them lower in the soil...

you see how one of ur plants (the one away from the light) is streaching like mad because its reeaching for light try to swap them around known again

zolmes

alright m8

regarding stretch, apparently hps (red light) makes plants stretch a fair bit and the straight energy saver bulbs are very red afaik, from checking them out on the web, and the ones i have are rated at 847 k.

there is a great post in the lighting section, check out penfold911 kelvin guide

penfold 911 kelvin guide

according to that info, the 847 k would be about right.

also i have managed to get some cheapo energy savers from the £ shop which are 2700k printed on the ballast part, and they kick the arse off of my straight energy savers.

unluckily i only managed to get another 3 of them before they ran out

i have the tops of my plants 1 inch from the bulbs, and they love it.

hope it helps m8

here is a pic of stella at roughly the same age as your babies, just so you can see what i mean.

hope things pick up m8, also are you counting the days from germ day or sowing in soil day?

nice plant dood!

day 15 as you can see my plant is OK smaler than yours doh but ok also some new came out today. the air help i thing!

here is the new.

another one

my beauty day 15

and the family. i think i have a space problem!

20 plant in a box 50cm X 50cm is too much i think. i also have a 400w hps but i dont know wen to start it. what do u think gays?

sorry for the gays i mean GUYS.

do u know wen to start the 400w hps?

day 18 my plant is looking fine now.

this is skunk #1 u can see the difference between the next pic

this is shiva santy its afghani indica

one more skunk an indica-sativa hybrid

They'd be fine to put under the 400 mate - just make sure you've rasied it first! Then lower it gradually day by day - no rush

even in this new onw u can see the difference the skunk in the middle of 2 shiva

all my new 4 days old. im pouting just water and no dark to all

hello mate my 3 babies were murdered a sum few days ago at day 26 or so and i think ur grow will be sound cos mine were like yours at this age so dont worry m8
just enjoy the growing!!

alright m8

things are looking up

i tip i picked up from the boards, thank you to whoever gave me this tip.

when they are seedlings bend the stems once each day, just wobble the plants by holding the stem gently between your fingers and wiggle it from side to side.

i have absolutely no airflow other than the passive intake, until the box changes tomorrow, but i used the stem wobble method and stella's stem in about 6 mm thick @ 30 days old.

she is well 'ard

i will be getting a little oscillating fan at the weekend for my new growbox, so i can compare the new seedlings' stem when she grows up as she will have forced breeze on her while stella had none.

day 21. 2 days ago i wos thinking that they stop growing but from yesterday i dont know how they doublesize! take a look.

the big one is skunk #1

another one skunk#1 at day21

a shiva shanti

they all ready start show theyr sex but its too smal to understad it

all together in the box

my only problem is that my temp as the wather outside change the last 2 days geting hight 27c. is that a big broblem?

i have a big problem whith some of my girl. help!

same

same

and this is another one u see the leaf? what is this?

How long ago did you pot/repot them up in compost and depending on your potsize you may need to either repot again soon or add nutes husq.

the yellowing is fairly much like they are hungry

finaly i dicide not to help the sick plant eny more.

day 30 1 month happy birthday!

it's gona be a jungle in ther!!

husq