What is wrong with my lettuce growing indoors under lights?
JL (Zone 6B MA)
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What is wrong with my lettuce?
Comments (12)I have never grown lettuce before so I have no experience with that and this is my first year starting seeds indoors. I usually just start outside. Yes, it is butterhead bibb. Anything is possible, the package only shows green and I've never seen red Bibb in any stores here so I didn't know there was any. It may be hard to tell in the pictures but they look black. I have some Ruby and some Red variety coming up, they are clearly red. What's funny is I noticed this morning that it seems some of the black is fading a bit. I hope you are right and it is just a different variety than I was expecting. The true leaves coming up on my romaine look fine and they were watered at the same time as all the others. I still think I'm overwatering though. It's been 6 days and they don't look anywhere close to dry to me....See MoreGrowing lettuce indoors
Comments (22)I posted my little seedlings maybe a week ago... I'm not sure, but I thought I would update some of the pics here... The first is my Black Simpson. Multiple true leaves. I have these under 24/7 light. The first 3 pics are of Black Simpson. The last 3 are of my Mesclun Mix... 2nd image shows really cool looking true leaves and they are littered throughout the plot. Shouldn't be long now. The other 2 pics just show general growth. Thanks and enjoy!!! ~ HFG...See MoreSalvia Divinorum - Successful indoor growing under neon lights
Comments (7)@dicot you are right, I don't have a lifetime of experience, and my aim with this post was to show other new growers how to get through the first weeks or months. I posted this after a search on the site that showed several attempts that ended badly for the plants in a short time. It's great that you knew all about gardening and whitefly right off the bat, as you can see I had to learn the hard way :D As for root rot, I shared what worked for me, for this plant, 100% of the time so far: cut, stick in honey, stick in moist soil. Might not work in all soils for all plants, but I think it's important that new S.Divinorum growers know about the honey as a rooting hormone, for when they want to propagate. Thank you all for the replies, good to see people are tolerant of all growers here, regardless of motives that got us started :) I am once again updating from work, so I don't have a pic to show my DYI "hothouse". However the plant is growing, I have once again large leaves, and all is well. Holes in the hothouse do provide air circulation, and I see no signs of anything wrong at this time. Cheers :)...See MoreKale is getting leggy even under grow lights - what am I doing wrong?
Comments (11)"For instance, growing kale seedlings at 80F sounds like a recipe for failure - this is a cool-weather crop which would not appreciate anything over temps in the upper 60s. The same advice applies for growing most vegetable seedlings, including tomatoes." Did you read my previous comment about the effect of light and dark temperature differences on stem length? Did you ever try growing a plant with a higher dark period temperature than light period temperature? I did by growing tomato seedlings with lights on during the night and lights off during the day in a greenhouse. See http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2005610/how-to-easily-supplement-fluorescent-with-incandescent-light. I was struwwelpeter then. I call your attention to the following: "In hopes of keeping plants stocky, I will try to keep the average dark temperature higher than the average light temperature. To do this, the lights are on only from 6 PM to 10 AM. The greenhouse heater is set to go on below 55 deg. F. and the greenhouse ventilator fans and shutter are set to go on at more than 95 deg. F.. I am aiming for 80 deg. F. light temperature and 95 deg. F dark temperature." "To my amazement, these tomato plants are shorter but heavier looking than their greenhouse grown counterparts. The weather was mostly sunny, and, my Gro-Lux bulbs are decades old and used. Who would have guessed?" "Left to right, daylight, Gro-Lux, Gro-Lux Plus Incandescent. You can read the variety on some of the tags. The pots are 4.06 inches diameter at the top outside. http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/BigZac3.6.jpg http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/BestBoy3.6.jpg http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/VelvetRed3.6.jpg The biggest difference is with Velvet Red (which some people claim is the best tasting cherry tomato that isn't sweeter than a normal tomato). This is the first time I have grown it. It is supposed to have bluish foliage and fuzzy fruit."...See MoreJL (Zone 6B MA)
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