Here is a little pictorial to keep everyone informed as to how my current Skywalker run is going. The last pic is that of a plant that was left over from my last run. I posted that pic to illustrate just how close the light is in relationship to the other plants. Since I took those pics, I bumped the ballast down to 50% and placed the sprouts immediately underneath the MH at ~ two feet from the canopy of the sprouts. I was really anxious to get my Skywalker run going so I left it in there to see if it would bud under a 400 watt MH. If not, no biggie just a experiment.
As of this morning, the smaller sprout was looking kind of brown, so I hit both of them with 1cc of Hormex/ 1 liter of water ph'd to 5.5. Hormex is my "ripcord'; used for emergency purposes. The larger sprout had already made an upward turn toward the light whereas the smaller one didn't seem to have the vigor of the larger sprout. As I was feeding the smaller sprout, it seemed to turn a little greener as I was feeding it, so hopefully I have salvaged it; assuming that something was wrong with it in the first place LOL.
My rooting plugs that were soaked for five hours in 10ml/gal of Seaplex ph'd to 5.5.
After leaving the seeds in the plugs in a Ziploc bag for two days in a bathroom vanity:
Larger sprout immediately after planting it into the smartpot:
Smaller sprout immediately after transplant into smartpot:
Light is 12" from the top of this plant @50% power. All three plants are now immediately underneath the MH: