Plants growing sideways/stretching...

onehitshit

Active Member
With 4 CFL's and a diagonal flouro tube in a box with 5 sprouts, the two older plants were started with the lights set higher up. I've moved them down, and the smaller sprouts haven't stretched at all, but the week older ones have a tendency to grow towards specific bulbs (with the slightly elongated stems giving them room to move). It is causing my plants to grow at an angle. The stretching itself isn't such a problem because I caught it in time. However I will ask if there is anything you can do about a stretched sprout.... I had one streched to bad it fell over and i just pulled it :-? ?

Importantly though, what about these sprouts growing at the light and getting all angled... is my only option to get rid of my socket structure and give each plant its own individual CFL? If this is the case, how should I go about doing this?... I imagine buying single sockets and then putting them all in a power strip is foolharty and probably a fire hazard, but my fixture rigid, and kind of puts the lights in weird places all over the box (which i thought would make for good distribution). Perhaps this is only a problem when the plants are small?
 

dursky

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Wallmart has little clip on desk lights with a reflector for $6.00 get those and there 40 watt cfls and keep them as close as you can to the light with out burning them. Support your plants for now.
 

Chinga_2_Madre

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With 4 CFL's and a diagonal flouro tube in a box with 5 sprouts, the two older plants were started with the lights set higher up. I've moved them down, and the smaller sprouts haven't stretched at all, but the week older ones have a tendency to grow towards specific bulbs (with the slightly elongated stems giving them room to move). It is causing my plants to grow at an angle. The stretching itself isn't such a problem because I caught it in time. However I will ask if there is anything you can do about a stretched sprout.... I had one streched to bad it fell over and i just pulled it :-? ?

Importantly though, what about these sprouts growing at the light and getting all angled... is my only option to get rid of my socket structure and give each plant its own individual CFL? If this is the case, how should I go about doing this?... I imagine buying single sockets and then putting them all in a power strip is foolharty and probably a fire hazard, but my fixture rigid, and kind of puts the lights in weird places all over the box (which i thought would make for good distribution). Perhaps this is only a problem when the plants are small?
CFL's suck donkey dick.

Sell them to a friend and buy some HID lights and those problems go away. :blsmoke: bongsmilie
 

Widow Maker

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You can bury the sprouts deeper in the soil or use straws as stakes. Whatever you do be careful not to damage any roots. As far as growing diagonal... the you can turn your pot/box 180* once a day. Or maybe some sort of light mover. Still with my light mover all my plants point to the middle of the garden. I would suggest looking into a better light soon.
 
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