My seedlings are crippled and cant stand up. Kill them off?

Hi all,

Day 1: aug 22-23 germinated seeds were planted
Day 7: installed 6 1600lumin cfl bulbs on top of the 4x40w grolux
Day 8: finally installed a small fan to gently blow on seedlings. (i have a 250cfm fan on top blowing air out as well)
Day 10: After a few days of struggling to stay up, two seedlings fell over. Till now i've been trying to support them with cut up grocery store cards i used for labels


How can I correct the problem?
I have drippers setup right on the stem. I've read on a post not to do this. I'll be moving the drippers off to the side a bit.

Also is that I'm giving them way to much light at such an early stage?


About the pics:
The two strains im growing are Mazar x afgani and Bigbud. 1 Mazar and 1 Bigbud are the ones that have fallen. By the looks of it the Mazar's are growing like champs.

those babies have stretched from being too far from light. lower those cfls to 4". stake them up carefully - i use two straws and string - they will do fine

yeh that definitely looks like stretching to me. Move those Cfl's lower but make sure their tender little leaves don't fry.

Whats is that , that your growing them inside of?

caderader said:

yeh that definitely looks like stretching to me. Move those Cfl's lower but make sure their tender little leaves don't fry.

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Thanks, I was hoping it wasn't something too serious.

desertrat said:

those babies have stretched from being too far from light. lower those cfls to 4". stake them up carefully - i use two straws and string - they will do fine

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I lowered them maybe an inch and tied them to straws.

khemist said:

Whats is that , that your growing them inside of?

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A kitty litter box inside an ikea cabinet.