Please tell me what Im doing wrong...

These are AROUND the same age, around 7 days old since they popped out of the soil. They were a little taller, but I filled in the space with soil all the way up to the bottom of the rounded leaves.

This one guy said he gets around 5 nodes at 2 weeks old.. mines a week old and its still tiny.

The temp is 78-80F with the lights on, and around 42-46% humidity. I water once every 2, maybe 3 days. Not using any nutrients yet. Im CFL growing, I have 1 cfl over each plant right now, but plan on implementing alot more once they are bigger.

What am I doing wrong? Why arent my plants up to par and look as good as everyone elses? They say their plants are 2 weeks old, and look 3 times as big as mine.

90% of your answers can be found with PATIENCE

mine where that big at a week to there dosnt look like there anything wrong mine where a week old and looked like that and in 5 days have completley changed

Ok first slow down take a breath.......you are doing fine. all plants grow differently. the amount of variables in each grow makes it impossible to compare yours to someone elses.
it looks good. get some more light, keep that watering sched. and relax bro........youre gona be just fine

Patience is a virtue.

some plants take a week to even sprout, it will start growing faster in a couple weeks.

thats prolly true, I check on em wayyyyyy too much lol. Should I only look in there once every 3 days when I go to water em?

Oh and for rasta, I have 1 26w cfl over top of each plant , just for now, until they grow enough so that I can surround em with the other 20 bulbs I have lol

I check on mine once or twice a day to make sure if anything has gone wrong I can hopefully fix it or prevent it from getting worse. There isn't a set rule for how often you should check on your plants lol. Good luck with your grow.

yea same bulbs. Im not worried at all about the heat. Its winter here in canada, I actually have my electric heat on in the room to keep it at this temp, otherwise itd be too cold.

yea heat is hard to deal with , especially if u live in a hot area.. only real thing u can do is air conditioning, which is mad expensive to run if ur only growin a couple plants.

Im gonna get a power bar , and hook up like 3 or 4 Y connectors with 2 lights each, and throw that in there over top of all 3 plants, see if that helps em out a bit. The only thing is , last time I did that, I burnt the leaves a bit... they are cfls but still get kinda hot if too close.

I realize that there is many variables on how fast the plants grow, but what can I do to improve the growth rate? I see people using the same cfls as mine, and grow way faster. My temps and humidity , as far as I know, are good.. so is there anything else I can do?

Def gonna try that, I just went to my friends place and picked up my old power bar he was using, so now I have about 7 sockets. Im gonna take a picture of this thing, there is an extra plug in on it , but above it , it says "transformer" am I still able to use that plug in? or is it for something "special".

ill take a pic and show u in the next couple mins, lemme know before that if u already know what im talking about.

RastaCourage said:

i think you should try what i stated.. lol
put all your plants in the center..
& get the lights right above all of them..
so that they get more coverage over the plants..

it's worth a try..
my plant is growing fairly faster than my last grow..
& my plant is growing in a temp that people say is not suitable..

just something i figured you should try..
because my plant already has her second set of leaves..
& yours is working towards that right now..

just my two cents..
good luck my friend

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heres the pics i was talking about, what is that transformer plug in? can i use it like a regular plug in? or is it for something specific?

I switched it up a bit, here are a few pics of the new lights.
Also, I know carpet = bad, and tinfoil = worse. But im workin with what i got at the moment lol