Hydro question

[Smoke-a-lot]

Doing my 1st hydro grow .I am 5 weeks into it and the only thing is my plants are looking good but I have had to support them since they have sprouted,never had that problem with soil.You know not a problem but alittle concerned if I did anything wrong. Thanks.

[RobM]

What medium are you using? Pics if possible please

[Cannabliss]

Plants tend to grow a bit faster in hydro than in soil, so perhaps you're not used to the fast growth? I don't think you did anything wrong imo. If they're looking good as you say, I wouldn't worry about it.

[abadtrip]

Can u post a pic of your set up. i have never had a problem with the plant standing up

[Smoke-a-lot]

Here is some pics

[abadtrip]

U want to cover the rapid rooters or u will get green algy.
It looks like u needed more light.
When my seedlings show there first leaves I hit them with everything I got. My autos have a 300 w led each and my photos have a 315 cmh.

How are the roots.
Roots are so temperamental in hydro well for me they were untill i got everthing sorted.
plants look nice and health .

[Cannabliss]

I concur with what abadtrip just said above. Plants look good, but the moment they sprouted, the lights should've been put a bit closer to them, while monitoring them as well to make sure they don't get light burn. This is why they're leggy; they started to stretch for more light. Usually when my plants sprout, I already have a small 25W, 2' T5 light waiting for them around 3" above them. That (imho) is more than enough to get a few seedlings going for a few weeks before I put them under the lights I'm going to use for the veg cycle. Still, not a loss by any means. They still look great. Just lower the lights a bit or get something with more wattage and monitor them to see which heights they're comfortable with. Nothing to worry about my friend.

[Smoke-a-lot]

Thanks for all the info, I will be moving them to the grow tent in about month,waiting on my last soil grow to finish flowering.Got LED,COB and a 400 watt HPS hanging in there,dont know if that is bad,the plants seem to like the variety

[Smoke-a-lot]

Using the Flora Grow and Hydroguard at about 1/4 strength ,been on that from the beginning,been keeping the ph between 6.0-6.3 range checking every other day.

[tvbfe]

Are you using just the flora grow and not the micro or bloom?

[Cannabliss]

That's a good pH range to be at this stage. Stay the course. Later as you start getting into flower, you may want to raise the pH just a bit to around 6.5. If, however, the plant starts to "self-adjust" its own pH up to around 6.5 by the time its in flower (while still looking amazing), let it. They're just letting you know which pH range they prefer. However, if it starts to go past 7.5 or something, then you might want to check things out and adjust the pH yourself. Good luck my friend.

[Jason]

You might want to check the suggested pH for your strain. I did a hydro grow and kept pH between 5.5 and 6.5, letting it range up naturally due to oxygenation.
For my second grow, my clone friend said the strain likes lower pH, like 5.0 to 5.2. So I kept the range lower for that grow and was generously rewarded.
For the 3rd grow, I'm keeping it about 5.2 to 6.0.

[Jason]

Using the Flora Grow and Hydroguard at about 1/4 strength ,been on that from the beginning,been keeping the ph between 6.0-6.3 range checking every other day.

With my WaterFarms I check pH three times a day. There are times it will range a full point in some hours or half a day. Adding a water stone will help with predictably seeing it range up, as the 02 does that naturally. I also use the Flora Trio, plus CalMag+, at 100% strength after 5-6 days of installing clones. I do not grow from seed.

[Smoke-a-lot]

I am using 2 large air stones. My set-up is identical to Nebula's suggested set-up in her article here.Very inexspensive but seems to work fine as far as I can see.Will start checking the ph more often and

[Smoke-a-lot]

I change the water weekly.Thanks my friends for all the valued info.Will post updates.

[GanjaGed]

Not sure if you have one but get a fan to sway them around a bit, that'll help strengthen the stems.