7 Days and Dying!

Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by timebomb311, Nov 8, 2009.

  1. So I put 2 Germinated Nirvana Bubblicious seeds in rockwool exactly 7 days ago. They broke the surface within 2 days and had grown to about 3-4 CM by this thursday.. Everything seemed to be going fine, one even had a single root come out the bottom of the rockwool within 3 days. They were under one 23 watt CFL to begin with. I was giving them a couple mists a day and making sure the rockwool stayed damp but not too wet.
    Last night I switched them to 2 6500K 26 Watt CFL's.

    I woke up this morning to check on them and to my disgusting surprise i find them looking like the attached picture. (sorry for the crappy quality) and also discovered that the root on the right on has turned from healthy white to a white-ish brownish color. FUCK!

    This is my first grow. and I'm all about learning from trial and error. If these plants are not save-able I have more seeds to germ, but I dont want to run into the same problem.

    So if anyone can tell me what I screwed up, I would appreciate it. I put them back under the single 23 Watt CFL hoping maybe I can salvage them.


    Can anyone tell me what mistakes I made? Over watered? Under-watered? Lighting? Etc. Thanks all.
     

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  2. im not 100% on this but it looks to me like they didnt get enough light.

    Those two plants look like they are ready to flower they need alot more light than 1 or 2 CFLs. I would go with 2 26w CFLs per plant, and get some kind of reflector on each one to optimize light usage.Try to keep the lights 3-5 inches from the plant. When the flower and plant is about a week old its ready for a 12/12 lighting cycle to flower, were you using a cycle? or were they on 24/0?

    i would try the more lights and cycle and I think they could be salvaged. I could be wrong, any other ideas guys?
     
  3. Thats what has me confused.. Last night was when I switched to 2 26 watt cfl (with reflectors) and this morning was when they were unhealthy
     
  4. but did you use a cycle? timer?
     
  5. 24 Hours of light.
     
  6. lights to far away / not enough light .
     
  7. Should I be using 2700k cfls or 6500k cfls?
     
  8. blue specturm for veg & red for flowering . I mix mine up. Check out the cfl guide.
     

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