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This diary is now closed down, as no further progress/development has happened over the last week. The plants simply did not develop, for reasons unclear to me.

@APOLLO, I don't actively kill the plants ofcourse. The lights are on a timer and I refill the humidifier, but other than that there's nothing I can really do at the moment.

@Ferenc, I know. That's what I wrote in the text above in great detail 😉

@Wimskeweed, Yeah, it's not going too well unfortunately. The leaves are pale and start yellowing. I just leave the plants alone for now and hope they'll recover somehow during the next few days, but I'm prepared to call them an unsuccesful attempt aswell. I have three other seed-packages to try a new growth with slightly modified conditions, if the cuurent crop fails.

@MaryJaneUSA, Thanks for the detailed comment. So far I have have tried to water as little as possible. I only give the plants some 100ml/half a cup of water every other day really. I even suspect that the soil in the bottom of the pot is dry so far as I've never completely soaked the soil to begin with. The light I've allready lowered down to two feet now and increased it's intensity. So that should help I hope. As for temperature... living in Finland where it's still freezing over night outside it's rather difficult to heat it up as much and I allready have a radiator placed next to the tent to get it to 22°C/72°F. Soil and water should be ok pH wise. I used some teststrips to measure and it comes down to between 6-7 pH. The strips aren't too precise ofc. So far I've used only things readily available to me from the local shops, besides the tent, growlight and seeds which I had to order online. For the next attempt I'll probably order soil, nutrients and whatnot from BioBizz, but for now I try to keep the current plants alive with what I have at hand.

1. She looks like she can use some nitrogen although you’ve already added fertilizer in the soil. Even at week 2, soil doesn’t need feeding but your plant looks pale. 2. The light is too far you need to bring it down to less than 2 feet. You have a XS1000, you can definitely bring it down to less than 2 feet. 3. Your soil is too wet. You don’t want to oversoak the pot because your plant is too young and roots haven’t not developed yet. It’ll become root bound. The rule is to water a bit more than the size of the plant. Once it starts to grow well, that’s when you start to water the entire pot. Make sure to have at least 10-20% drainage. 4. Every one telling you it’s cal mag is not cal mag. You grow in soil. Soil has cal mag already. If you grew in coco, then it could use some but even then it’s too early to have those symptoms already. 5. For soil, your pH should be around 6.5. 6. General rule for soil grow: you will feed every other watering. 7. Buy some root enhancers such as Mykos. It has mycorrhizae , it’s fungus and it will help with root growth. 8. Your temperature is really low for young plants. You want it around 75-80F. You do the conversion. 9. Cheers.

I'll follow your progress and see how it compares to mine. Yours are definately growing faster than mine so far.

@Wimskeweed, I received my MarsHydro TS1000 today and lost no time replacing the cheap chinese blurple light with it. Much better control over the PPFD and in addition it's silent. We'll see if things improve. I've now set the TS1000 up 90cm/36" above the plants and dimmed it down to ~450 PPFD. New images will be posted later today.

Looking great. I'm using the same seeds, but mine do look nothing like yours unfortunately 😳

Wow. How do you manage to grow them this fast. My ladies are on day 13 of their journey and still look like yours from day 6.