Tell me your secrets about.. proper early Veg..

[Bam-Bhole 1,903]

I am feeling a bit like a noobie atm. Been germintaing 4 proper seeds (autos) and they popped out on monday or so . opened the seed bag on thursday the week before - so far everything easy . I left them in the propagator for a fe days till I could see the second , the true leves appear. Then I put them in little pots and placed them at various spots - when sunny inside or outside the window, in the pots of the bigger plants with a 400 watt Multi spectrum lamp. around 50 centimters or so under s Preader . After that I put them in a T5 110 watt NEON lamb to make it to 18 hours. Other plants are on 12/12 . everything looked cozy till last night when I noticed some burn on the second leaves plus nothing really going on in growth .. I mean if these are 8 to 10 week finishing autos something is definitely WRONG here.

I am so para now that i just put them in daylight, I mean it is summer after all but this slow start bugs me.

I want to get me a method and a light where I can TRUST on proper early VEG, till they are strong enough to go into the flowering booth - tired of carrying seedlings around - Maybe if I reduce the T5 from 2 & 55 to the smallest lights it might help BUt I am never sure about what is the right distance and if I have different sized seedlings that might cause another problem.

I see some of you use a CFL . i had one but they pop so fast. That was an 85 Full spectrum and not much effective I guess 125 watts or 250 might be even better.

I do have a small green house, too. should I put them in there and just push outdoors on a warm/hot day or is it better to stick to one source ? I think that causes the stress ..

Don't want to lose these seedlings or waste weeks with that ultra lame Veg.

So keep the tipps coming, please..

Thanks

[Bam-Bhole 1,903]

Okay - I just took pix from the tiny seedlings - They do not look very happy imo - hope they recover - or I start again with the seeds left over from the same strain ; but not without the proper lights..

6 day from soil, the tiny one 4 days or so .

[Dust 6,284]

hi amn, sorry to hear those lil babies are having problems, how often do you get them wet and how much?

For the lights i put CFL and T5 more or less at the same level personally, T5 is better if you have a bigger amount of space to cover but will do sensibly the same job. For the CFL i think indeed for a good veg you must go at least for the 200w bulbs they make a good lighting i've vegged a few under those and plants were looking perfect and compact not stretchy at all etc.. but same can be done with T5 we have a journal running at the moment with only T5 and you see how nice it is

Maybe the burns could have been made by some drops on the leaves while they were in the propagator, and the light made it burn a little? or it was already under T5 when burnt?

[Bam-Bhole 1,903]

I think the burn came from a combination of the T5 being too close and the lights from the 400 watts HPS, too long uncovered/direct - no real damage been done, parked here outside since 2 days inside a green house and that seems to work better. They will recover . I also ordered a 125 6500 watt CFL, i know 200 would be better, but then it is a problem putting it inside a reflektor cause the bulbs are so heavy. BTW the parcel arrived but i think for today I leave them outside eben thou it is a cloudy bit wet day with hardly 20 degrees, but I want the next leave to appear before I add new lights, then they get 18 hours straigh at the same spot. adapting to various light sources is stressful at that stage.Thanlks for dropping by ..

[SukonmiSkunk 97]

i start my seedlings off under the 400 and never have any issues. maybe the soil was a bit "hot" for the youngsters?

i make my own seed raising mix .. 1 parts worm castings, 2 part perlite and 2 part wood shavings from the chainsaw.. mainly because thats what i have around but you can swap the perlite for horticultural sand. and the wood shaving for small wood chips, like what youd use for a meat/fish smoker.

the reason i make my own is because it seems everytime i buy it from the shop as a premix bag its loaded with bugs also.. its free

heres a germination thread i done a while ago.. im not sure if you have to be a member of the site. When i get some spare time i might transfer it over to here

https://cannabis.community.forums.ozstoners.com/topic/21835-a-white-heaven-germination/

ive got a feeling you need to be a member

[Bam-Bhole 1,903]

Would help if you put the info in this section as well ....