Please help I don't know whats wrong

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Hi, my plant is 5 days old and the leafs are messing up and I don't know why. The plant is 9cm tall but I added 4cm of soil because she couldn't stand up properly due to a long stem so I added more soil to support her.

Anyways, she seems to be growing fine but its just that her 1st set of leafs are curling inwards. I know its not water because I made sure she never gets too dry and I know its not light because I don't put it close enough. I think I know what it is. When she was 3 days old I have her a little bit of biobizz grow to help her get going. I think the nutes may of burnt her abit, maybe it was too soon to give her any??

This is my growing eq/environment:

* biobizz light-mix (watered soil before planting)
* 60watt CFL (6,500K) kept 2 inches from top of plant

That's about it. I gave her some extra water invade it was the nutes. As I wanted to try flush them out of her.

Anyways, someone please help I don't it to die as I have never grown before and would love to grow a good plant as my 1st grow.

Take a look at the pics and help PLEASEEEEE
 

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dura72

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its probably fine buddy, when young the leaves sumtimes tend to make strange shapes, its just natural as they reach out for light, they can end up make weird shapes and movement, sumtimes they stay like that and its just a little mutated, it'lll most likely be fine. occasionally a plant will 'cup' its leaves if the heat in the grow area is too high, it does this to reduce the surface area presented to the light and therefore reduce temps on its surface but after what you mentioned about the light set up you've got this is highly unlikely. dont worry about it, just relax. every new grower, myself as well, tends to get a bit over protective and jumpy at first.
do NOT feed at this stage, the plant doesnt need it for the first two weeks, just water.
 
mattyblade1

mattyblade1

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Mate by the look of it you don't have to much to worry about there.. DO NOT feed any nutes of any kind, just use water.. Only start feeding nutes when she or he has 4-5 sets of leaves, and even then use only a qtr or half the recommended dose. All compost mixs these day come with enough food to start your plants off.
Another thing to consider is over watering. When seedlings are that age your you will only need to water once a week if that, check the soil with your fingers if its damp then don't water. Use a mist spray with water in it and spray 2 or 3 times daily this will get the humidity up, seedlings love that...

Whats temps are in the growing environment ?

Hope this helps.
 
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I don't have a theromemerer yet buying it this week. But the closet it is in has a lot of ventilation.

Should I just kick back and let her grow now and see how she gets on next week or so?
 
MidnightJoker

MidnightJoker

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A plant doesn't really need any nutes for the first 3 weeks of it's life, so don't feed anymore. A 60w light will be fine but soon enough you will have to switch over to a stronger light.
 
massah

massah

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If you want to prevent stretch get more light on her...one single 60watt equivalent CFL is not enough...no nutes for another 1.5 weeks...just water...in seedling stage dont wait until its bone dry to water, but just before then...get a small fan blowing on it to strengthen the stem...you'll be good :D
 
MidnightJoker

MidnightJoker

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In all seriousness if you want to be a serious grower, you should at the very least invest in an HPS light. A red spectrum CFL is not going to give you a big yield at all. Take a look at this 150w HPS LIGHT or even better, this 250w HPS LIGHT. You can actually use the 250w light for your whole grow, which is better than the CFL.
 
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MidnightJoker said:
In all seriousness if you want to be a serious grower, you should at the very least invest in an HPS light. A red spectrum CFL is not going to give you a big yield at all. Take a look at this 150w HPS LIGHT or even better, this 250w HPS LIGHT. You can actually use the 250w light for your whole grow, which is better than the CFL.
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That light is 33000 lumens. The CFL I got is 19,500. For 1 plant no good??? Seriously????
 
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