David Fisk
Member
I have 4 auto flower and 1 regular seedlings in 5 gallon pots, growing inside my 4x4x7 foot grow tent (I'll be moving the regular plant in and out of the tent during flowering). I have a six in fan connected to the bottom left side of the tent that brings air from the outside, into the tent. Another six inch fan is on the right side of my tent toward the top, blowing air out of the tent and into my room. One eight inch clip-on fan is inside the tent blowing air onto the seedlings. My lighting consists of a 600w MH with just a regular reflector hood. I'm currently 9 days into my first grow (regular seed started around 4 days ago) and have already had a plethora of problems. Recently some seedlings started curling up on the tips of the leaves due to heat stress. I'm a total noob and am unsure on how to position my light to get the full potential without cooking my poor seedlings. The tent itself is always kept between 72-78°F, so I know it's heat stress that is affecting the seedlings due to the bulb being too close. At the beginning, the light was too far away and the seedlings started falling. The stems on most of the seedlings are still pretty poor. They got MUCH better than they were a few days ago (two were laying directly on the floor at one point) but they haven't gotten any better since. So my question is, can someone tell me a good position for my 5 gallon pots and light? (The light hangs on a clip that can be moved to anywhere in the tent)I mostly only care about the 4 autoflower seedlings, the regular seed is second priority and should be getting less light than the autoflowers (although I'll probably setup a couple little cfl's for it). An example for what I'm looking for would be something along the lines of, "place the four pots in a square, blank inches apart from each other. Place the bulb blank inches from each plant." Also, I noticed that most of the light comes from the middle of the bulb. Does that by any chance make it warmer toward the middle than it does on the ends?
I know it's gonna come up, I understand that the seedlings don't look healthy. As I said, they've already been through a ton of shit they starting out with terrible stems, then the leaves went haywire. For about the first 3 days I was overwatering (again...noob status) and some leaves started dropping dropping down. I watered again at around day four (which was still too early, I'm retarded) and now I havent watered for almost a full four days and the soil is just about dry. I watered one that seemed the driest this morning to make sure it was ok to water again, which was about 12 hours ago. Part of me was hoping I was wrong and underwatering was actually the problem, but unfortunately there's been little to no improvement of the freshly watered seedling's health since this morning. I have no idea what's wrong with them, my guess is it's a combonation of things causing the problems but I also thought it was a good idea give them a shit of of water so....
Basically, some leaves point up, some down, no discoloration as far as I can tell, two seedling have a combined total of 3 leaves with spots on them (very small, shown in pictures that have my hand in them), some stems are good, some stems are bad, and to top it all off the regular seed has a reddish maybe purple stem. I work 70 hours a week and have spent all free time/breaks/lunches scavenging forums, grow guides, and videos for possible solutions. It is INCREDIBLY important that this grow pulls through so I've been just as stressed as my seedlings. For around the first days I couldn't even stay asleep for more than an hour without being worried enough to get out of bed and check on the temp and overall conditions of the seedlings. If anyone had any idea on what this could be, Id love to know, but seeing as I've already posted numerous threads on multiple websites asking about the symptoms my seedling are displaying and haven't gotten any solid leads/solutions.
Everything I'm using includes:
4x4x7 ft grow tent
Two six inch duct fans
One 8 inch clip on fan
600w MH (connected to timer)
Fox farm soil, 20% perlite
5 gallon buckets
Thermometer, moisture meter, ph meter
Feminized Autoflowers: (2) White Widow, (1) Pinapple Express, (1) Anastasia
Photoperiod: Sour Diesel or Nicole Kush X Moroccan (accidentally mixed up the seeds)
Ive searched forums a ton and see so many threads with great responses but I never seem to get more than a couple responses on my threads (many of which are useless like, "too much light, good luck"). I know you guys are out there and surely some of you might have an idea so PLEASE, if you have any possible solutions, take a moment or two to write them down. I'm desperate, stressed out, tired, and clueless. I'd like to take this moment to apologize for writing this so terribly, I don't talk too well when I'm high...and I'm always high...so I guess I just don't talk well.Thank you SO MUCH for your time, and any help is MUCH appreciated!
