Help Im Frustrated

[swantlaphoenix]

ow tall are your plants now? 3-8 inches

How far from the lights are the tops of your plants? Is this a constant distance or have you changed it recently? About 15 Inches Now.

How old are they? Month And A Half

What strain are they?(5 White Widow - 3 Blueberry/Black Widow)

Did you start them from seed or clone? Seed

What type of containers are you using and what size are they in gallons?
PLASTIC BUCKETS 2 GALLONS. Holes Drilled In Bottom

What mixture of dirt or type of dirt did you use?
Plain Potting Soil - Perlite -Peat Moss

Is it a type that has added nutrients like "Miracle Grow"?
NO

What mixture of perlite, vermiculite and other additives have you used if any? PERLITE

Lights : HPS 24\7

Wattage? 400

What nutrients are you feeding your plants?
Some Organic Mix. 3-1.5-4.

Soil ferts? NONE

Do you use ventilation for your indoor grow?
YES -

Fan? YES TWO

Temperature? 80

Humidity? 23%

Is CO2 being introduced? NO

I could cry reading peoples grow journals because I have the plants from hell. To this point I feel like Ive done everything known to man. From the begining they have been growing really slow. They germinated in 3 days. THIS WAS ON NOVEMBER 11TH. Were going on a month and a half veggie time and my plants about 8 inches tall now. One of them is still around 3 inches. Now to top it off the bottom older leaves are turning yellow. After the last watering I used nitrozyme for the first time and ended up with brown spots on the leaves - 2 much I think. The PH of the water seems to be good. The SOIL PH seems to be decent maybe slight high around 7.0. Im not overwatering them I let the soil dry out. Could these just possibly be bad seed? 5 feminized from a company called dutch passion. I latest watering (today) I added a teaspoon of epson salts to the watering to see if that helps anything. I WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT.. ANY IDEAS WELCOME! Thanks

[swantlaphoenix]

Here are a few more pics

[fatbob166]

How often do you water your plants: TOO OFTEN!!

That's my only guess man, those plants are very far behind, but luckily they're alive. With those 2 gallon buckets you'll probably only need to water once every 6-8 days. Don't care too much for your plants, or you could be doing more bad than good.

[smokingjoe68]

try bringing the temp down some, to about 70. put a humidifier in there, keep humidity up to between 60-65 % for veg. add some flouros or use a metal halide conversion bulb in your hps fixture through veg, need more blue spectrum light.