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 wasteland
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 I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... 
#485612 - 10/06/10 05:10 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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...If someone might know what's going on here.
I've started a few plants from seed. The first plant got killed from some bad advice (fans do not strengthen young plants... THEY BREAK THEM!) and a few theoretical practices seem to be finishing off the survivors... I tried fish oil to boost nutrients, but the plants I did that to have shriveled stems, moist, rich and green, but still they seem withered.
I know I don't have all the details you might want, but I don't even know the ph of my water (filtered tap). I've been trying to keep them sustained with a few hours of genuine sunlight, and most of the day under a blacklight.
Is the fish oil the problem? (each plant probably got a couple teaspoons on it, and in it's soil.)
edit-the soil is an offbrand miracle grow.
Edited by wasteland (10/06/10 05:15 PM)
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 T-Rex
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: wasteland]
#485616 - 10/06/10 05:20 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Depending on how old they are and how much you used, the nutes could be a factor, but why are you using a blacklight? I would suggest changing those to CFL's or even just a standard fluro tube, I've never heard of anyone using blacklights before.
And a fan can be very beneficial to your plants, but as you said the air force can be a bit much for seedlings, aim the fan away from the plants, so it's circulating the air, but not blowing directly onto the plants.
Could you get a pic up?
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coda
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: wasteland]
#485617 - 10/06/10 05:21 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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The first plant got killed from some bad advice (fans do not strengthen young plants... THEY BREAK THEM!)
No, fans do strengthen stems.
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but I don't even know the ph of my water (filtered tap)
Problem #1 right here, most tap water is pretty alkaline which is not good. Second, by filtered if you mean softened, that's another problem. If it's just passing through a charcoal filter you're ok. Water softeners displace mineral deposits using sodium which is death to your plants. If you have a water softener hooked up in your house you'll need to find some other way to get water.
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I've been trying to keep them sustained with a few hours of genuine sunlight, and most of the day under a blacklight.
Problem #2. Blacklights are useless, I don't know where you picked up to use a blacklight, but it offers nothing to your plants (which explains why they're shriveling up and dying). Spend the 15-20 bucks and buy a shop light, or some other form of fluro lighting. A few hours of sunlight a day isn't going to cut it, they need at least 18 hours of usable light to stay in the veg stage.
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wasteland
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: coda]
#487649 - 10/13/10 04:38 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I really wish I had logged on here sooner.
They're dead now... I've been trying to recover the now-hopelessly-lifeless-and-turning-grey plants and neglected to consider until too late that I could get a working light. I've got a few in germination that I was dumb enough to try to experiment with submersion in their germination phase (planting about five inches into the soil instead of the usual one, upside-down placed when sprouting occured... I'm not really sure if it helps, but I like to tinker with things) and I was wondering if I may have just gone too far, or does a plant under soil still need a lot of sunlight?
Hope that wasn't too much of a rant.
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MR.HEADY
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Registered: 07/21/10
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: wasteland]
#487742 - 10/13/10 08:54 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Is this a puppet account or is he being serious? Please tell me its a puppet trolling
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Inbred_gimp
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: MR.HEADY]
#487800 - 10/13/10 10:28 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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problems probably the miracle grow soil. eww
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Inbred_gimp
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: Inbred_gimp]
#487845 - 10/14/10 04:39 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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if the fans were too close to the baby seedlings it could of been drying them out quicker than the roots could take up water?
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muse42
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Re: I don't have all the details, but I'd like to know... [Re: Inbred_gimp]
#493879 - 10/31/10 03:17 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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The problem is you did not research enough if at all before you started. Tinker away
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