S.O.S.

[jus.lor]

Okay, I'm new to this obviously, and I've never had so much anxiety in my life.. I planted these 3 little guys on Aug 28th and this is happening now. I THINK everything's pretty good so far except the pH, I have no idea what it is. I know it's important, but hey I'm poor so hopefully within the next couple days I can get some stuff. Like I said, first grow and I don't know what to do, but I could use your guys' help... The other two are doing better than this one. But I think they're going down the same path. I'm guessing nute lockout from a pH problem?? I dunno. I'm just looking for someone who knows more than I do....which just so happens to be nothing.

**edit: I couldn't get pics posted for some reason, but they're on my next reply below...

 

[liquid069]

when was the last time you watered?
what is your soil?
then soil/perlite ratio?

type of light? How high from the top of the plant?

What is the temps in the room? day / night???

all very crucial things or we can't help at all!!

 

[jus.lor]

I watered three days ago.
The soil is Miracle Gro Organic with roughly 50/50 perlite...And now MGO has me freaked out because I've read so much about how bad it is just recently, but before I bought it I couldn't find anything...
I have seven 26watt cfls.. five 3000k and two 6500k and they are about 4" away from the plants.
During the day it runs about 82 and at night it's at about 75.

I have an intake fan and an exhaust fan. There's a fan inside by the plants, but not blowing directly on them.

Thanks for any help and if you need to know anything else just say it.

Save the babies!!

 

[jus.lor]

Ok so the pictures showed up when I edited my last post.
If anyone has an idea of what I should do please let me know thanks again

 

[3dDream]

Move the lights about 1ft-6inches away, closer if the heat is under control. Spend 25 bucks and get a meter off ebay or go to your local pet store and get the liquid ph test for aquariums. Is the soil dry?

 

[jus.lor]

Alright I'll see what I can do about the ph test for aquariums asap, and yea the soil is pretty dry

 

[jus.lor]

Okay I tested the pH of the water and it's 6.5 I moved the lights to about 11" above the plants. I just watered today.

I have some more pics. Now the other two are starting to sag and curl. The big one has burn marks on the edges...they look worse than the other day.

 

[3dDream]

They are thirsty. Be sure to test the runoff next watering.

 

[jus.lor]

Will do... I'll post some more pics tomorrow if they start to perk up. I appreciate the advice man.

 

[jus.lor]

Well, I gave them some water yesterday and they seemed to have responded well for the most part. The one that was yellowing the most looks like it's doing a little better.



The one that was drooping the worst is now doing the best out of all three.





But the smallest one is the one I'm worried about. I have no idea why her bottom leaves are turning like grayish.

 

[VenturaHwy]

182 watts of light - Try moving your lites to 18 or so inches away, and give them 6 hours of sleep a nite - then go by what you see. Ebay has some cheap camera lite meters, I have an LX1020B so I could tell you the exact amount of light to use if you had one.

Plain water?