New grower - Leaves with random white areas

[Former Guest]

Concentrate on making these healthy, learn from your mistakes and then try again. Each round you will improve and size will come. This is why I like plants you can extend the veg period and choose to flip when you're satisfied with health and size. I like being able to control how big they get before I bloom them. Once you get the watering part down then you will see better growth and a deeper green color.

 

[MrTofu]

Okay ladyluckbean, i will. After these i was actually planning on growing photo ones.

New pics! These are day 23 from seed.

 

[Former Guest]

How hot is it in there and what's the humidity?

 

[MrTofu]

Temps between 78-85, and RH is now set at 55 (previously at 45)

 

[Former Guest]

Raise your lights a bit. Your plants have really tight nodes so I wouldn't worry about stretch but you shouldn't go past 80F and your humidity should be much higher if you do. Try to sim for 78f day and 68 at night with humidity around 55-60%. The air is dry and warm which causes your leaves to work harder to keep moisture in so you will see limp fan leaves and serrated leaf edges like the ones you have in one photo. Some if the others looked ok so I thought you might have a hot spot with with your light or poor air circulation.

 

[MrTofu]

Well, raising the humidity has proven to be an issue.
I do have an automatic control with a mist maker, but because the outside air is pretty dry (30-40%), if i raise it even more it pretty much never stops making mist, which for my setup would mean refillling the water reservoir like 5-6 times a day.
As for temps, right now is summer and is pretty impossible to lower them even more. The lights are off during the peak heat hours, and my lamp has a cool tube with a 6 inch extractor, and that's all i can do.
I will raise my lights though, and monitor them closely.

 

[Former Guest]

Just try a few inches. I had to push air through my ducts to make the temps go down. For summer that's not too bad it's freezing for me right now so I tend to forget. They're doing good! Just make sure they're not under watered and some stress reducers like the aloe or kelp, etc will help during the hot part of the day.

 

[MrTofu]

You know, i did buy an spray thats made of sea weed kelp. Should i add it to the water as well or only spray?

 

[Former Guest]

either. it doesn't matter with kelp. just follow directions with the product. if there are no directions for foliar feeding but there are for a soil feed, use 1/4 the strength suggested for foliar use is a good rule of thumb.

 

[MrTofu]

Okay guys, pics from day 26 from seed.

 

[MrTofu]

So guys, i've been running into some issues with bugs apparently. My leaves have some irregular holes in them. I posted the issue at https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=300922

Hope you can check it and give me some guidance.

Thanks again!