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Turns out fungus gnats were the problem. The larve predator I bought was useless. I don't even think they came out of the teabag-thing they came in. Yellow sticky traps are catching dozens of bugs every day, and I have some larve killing chemicals on the way. Frustrating! One of my plants...

I'm starting to think the plant may be a write-off, as it has gotten considerably worse. Incidentally, I checked the soil PH this weekend, and it is fine. When digging down to get my soil sample, however, I noticed the plants are all very root bound.

Although it has warmed up again, it still gets down to 4C or 5C some nights. The day I brought them inside it was supposed to drop below 0C.

Here are the other two plants. No sign of the browning, but Ive noticed they've been a tad lighter shade of green since, well, the beginning, pretty much.

Hi folks! :) So I planted these fro seed at the beginning of the year. They sat on my patio all summer, but I brought them inside three weeks ago due to the colder weather. Since then, one of my three plants (which are all "Crown Royale") hasn't been looking so good. They get watered about...

Okay, so didn't replant. Last weekend I worked some sand into the soil with a pencil, which seemed to have helped with the drainage (i.e. the soil is drying much faster.) I also water it much less during waterings. Where before I would soak the soil until it started draining from the bottom of...

Okay, I'm going to go buy the stuff to make a growing medium with much better drainage. I'm frankly not prepared to transplant the seedlings into bigger pots this soon, but desperate time . . . Or maybe I'll just transplant the one. I don't know. But to the store I go . . .

Go Canucks! Unfortunately I'm living in the heart of enemy territory. Goddam Flames fans everywhere . . .

I don't know if there's much more I can add with regard to my setup: the plants are in the spare kitchen in my basement about eight or-so inches below the fluorescent light (I leave the light on 24 hours a day at this point.) I have not used the plastic cover that came with the tray pictured...

I broke my back 15 years ago skiing, I can walk and everything, but there's pain in my back, and in parts of my legs from nerve damage. For the longest time I got by with Tylenol 3, Percocet, etc., but I've been developing an intolerance to those the last few months, to the point where the...

I noticed this today on one of my plants, and I'm pretty sure they weren't there yesterday. Should I be worried? My plants--Crown Royale--are being grown indoors under a 16-inch long fluorescent light I bought, in Miracle Grow soil. They're four and a half weeks old, and I water them when the...