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I've started a few plants from seed. The first plant got killed from some bad advice (fans do not strengthen young plants... THEY BREAK THEM!) and a few theoretical practices seem to be finishing off the survivors... I tried fish oil to boost nutrients, but the plants I did that to have shriveled stems, moist, rich and green, but still they seem withered.
I know I don't have all the details you might want, but I don't even know the ph of my water (filtered tap). I've been trying to keep them sustained with a few hours of genuine sunlight, and most of the day under a blacklight.
Is the fish oil the problem? (each plant probably got a couple teaspoons on it, and in it's soil.)
Depending on how old they are and how much you used, the nutes could be a factor, but why are you using a blacklight? I would suggest changing those to CFL's or even just a standard fluro tube, I've never heard of anyone using blacklights before.
And a fan can be very beneficial to your plants, but as you said the air force can be a bit much for seedlings, aim the fan away from the plants, so it's circulating the air, but not blowing directly onto the plants.
Quote: The first plant got killed from some bad advice (fans do not strengthen young plants... THEY BREAK THEM!)
No, fans do strengthen stems.
Quote: but I don't even know the ph of my water (filtered tap)
Problem #1 right here, most tap water is pretty alkaline which is not good. Second, by filtered if you mean softened, that's another problem. If it's just passing through a charcoal filter you're ok. Water softeners displace mineral deposits using sodium which is death to your plants. If you have a water softener hooked up in your house you'll need to find some other way to get water.
Quote: I've been trying to keep them sustained with a few hours of genuine sunlight, and most of the day under a blacklight.
Problem #2. Blacklights are useless, I don't know where you picked up to use a blacklight, but it offers nothing to your plants (which explains why they're shriveling up and dying). Spend the 15-20 bucks and buy a shop light, or some other form of fluro lighting. A few hours of sunlight a day isn't going to cut it, they need at least 18 hours of usable light to stay in the veg stage.
They're dead now... I've been trying to recover the now-hopelessly-lifeless-and-turning-grey plants and neglected to consider until too late that I could get a working light. I've got a few in germination that I was dumb enough to try to experiment with submersion in their germination phase (planting about five inches into the soil instead of the usual one, upside-down placed when sprouting occured... I'm not really sure if it helps, but I like to tinker with things) and I was wondering if I may have just gone too far, or does a plant under soil still need a lot of sunlight?
Is this a puppet account or is he being serious? Please tell me its a puppet trolling
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