PhishPhood16
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Turn down your light to 40%, no need to blast the poor seedlings with 640w of light.
Tell me what to do!
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Dazed-N-confused78
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Lower the intensity? Or the temp?
Dazed-N-confused78
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Its ok on the light spectrum to do that?
Failmore
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What ever you gotta do to lower the temp. 90s is going to be a problem.
Dazed-N-confused78
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You mean right into the flood table? In the cubes?
Failmore
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I guess I don't know how your doing your final setup. I fill buckets with hydroton. Place the taproot directly into the hydroton. No cubes. Auto top feed and recoupe in a res outside tent.
What are planning on putting the cubes in?
Dazed-N-confused78
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Im doing flood and drain. I could have germinated how i did. Put the seed in a small rockwool and then into my 6 inch rockwool and straight into the tent into the ebb and flow. Flood tanle in 6 inch cubes is the final step cubes is
PhishPhood16
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Seedlings just need a little bit of light to get going. You can blast them when the get bigger.
Failmore
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Ok. Everybody who has used them hated those damn cubes. They hold moisture around the stem and cause issues with rot.
There are people out there that make it work. I'm not one of those people.
Focus on reducing your tent temperature. Get it in the low 80s.
Get a fan blowing directly in the seedlings. It will help in the heat.
twentyeight.threefive
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Two things that don't mix well for growing plants.
Dazed-N-confused78
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Very true
Runa
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They look so sad... Like in some prison. The light looks way too aggressive and soils is too wet. I would give them natural light at this stage and keep the cubes just moist...
Dazed-N-confused78
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I turned the light down. What height should it be at?
twentyeight.threefive
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If you have T5s why not just start them under that? Probably wasting quite a bit of electricity running that large light for seedlings.
Dazed-N-confused78
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Really? Like just open the door to the tent? Or the window?
Dazed-N-confused78
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I did have them under a t5 bulb. If they will be ok i can put them back under that light. Or just start over. I have more seeds. But they aren't free. Lol
getogrow
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look fine to me.... your not being patient enough...or even close. How many days old are they ?
Put that light on the ceiling and turn it down to 20% or something. You need hardly any light to get them going and healthy. 1 single 9 watt home bulb is plenty of light for a week or 3.
RadicalRoss
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Yeah man, they don't really need dark until they're flowering. I ran my veg tent with the door open for months until a buddy hooked me up with a bigger one that would hold all my stuff and allow the door to close.
Dazed-N-confused78
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They are 4 days old. They are already stretching so far and about an 1/8 root has come thru the bottom of 1 of them so far
getogrow
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4 days. Yes , you have zero reason to worry yet, everything is fine , just follow hydro instructions from here.