Do these look healthy?!

Hi all,

Literally just signed up and am completely new to growing. Would like some of your valuable opinions. Been doing loads of reading up before I started.. The seeds were planted before germination 8 days ago, all germinated, they are under the platinum p450 LED lights, biobuzz soil, humidity 60%, temps 22 day 19 at night (ordered a heat mat to increase this). The strain is critical from Royal queen seeds.. They are about 3 inches tall now and I think they are slightly lighter green than they should be, also from watching journals I think they should have more growth by now.



Thanks for reading!

Can't tell if they're light green or dark green with that light on it.

MickFoster said:

Can't tell if they're light green or dark green with that light on it.

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My bad

16-18 hours of light right? From what I see, they look ok. Post in a week with an update.

Yea, 18 hours on 6 off. Will update you in a week. Appreciate your response!

They look good to me as well.
G/L & welcome to RIU.

A little stretchy? But I could be wrong about that. My main focus has remained pretty low and bushy, and by comparison, everyone else's look pretty grown out, so it could just be my plant. In any case, they look pretty good. I might add a half to full inch more soil, for support and to better cover that plug, but otherwise, I think it's looking good so far.

Thank you for both your responses! If it is starting to stretch, what would be causing that?

As mentioned put a bit more dirt in your pots & lower your light a bit.
Also, if you don't already, put a small oscillating fan on them to help strengthen em.

If they continue to stretch and get frail, lower your LED. I've had mine anywhere between 6 inches to two feet from it. I wanted mine to grow a bit taller with its outward branches, so I raised it to about 18" from the plant, and it'll probably stay there until I put the flowering light up.

Veg: 240w for 4 plants + 1 sunflower
Flower: 500w with UV and IR.

Both are Lighthouse Hydro BlackStars.

For comparison this is 3 weeks



and 1.5 months.

Don't do what I did and use a clear container. From what I've heard, the roots do not like the direct light.

Just adds that bit extra dirt. I thought plants would be larger by them time frames, some people only talk about vegging for 4 weeks! Thanks for all this info, just lowered the lights down slightly too!

PeteW92 said:

Just adds that bit extra dirt. I thought plants would be larger by them time frames, some people only talk about vegging for 4 weeks! Thanks for all this info, just lowered the lights down slightly too!

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From seed it takes longer. A clone can be done in veg a lot more quickly.

thebonzaseedbank said:

16-18 hours of light right? From what I see, they look ok. Post in a week with an update.

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Here's the update on day 15, is this a good level of growth at this point? Everyone on here has been so helpful so far. Very grateful!

Nice...at least what can be seen trying to look around the purple anyway.

They look fine. I would add more soil on top of the plugs and Bury the bottom of the stems, but that's just me kind of a preference thing.


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