What's the trick to getting past the six week mark?

[ThatGuyInTheDesert]

I have purchased about 100 seeds from Royal Queen Seeds over the past two years, but I have yet to see a single flower. I can get them to germ and sprout pretty well. However, every plant gets to about six weeks and then shrivels and dies. My soil, water, and fert are at 6.5 pH, and I am using SpiderFarmer lights and also growing outdoors. I use Fox Farm soils and fertilizers. It doesn't seem to matter how much or how little I water. They always shrivel after six weeks. It seems like I am really close to success here, but what is the trick for getting past the six week mark?

Many thanks.

[Pyrokill]

Soil looks a bit woody and I followed all of the guidelines from this site. That's how I do it. Man, 100 seeds? That's a lot of compost.

[ThatGuyInTheDesert]

Soil looks a bit woody and I followed all of the guidelines from this site. That's how I do it. Man, 100 seeds? That's a lot of compost.

I don't know what that means. Not really much compost. When the plants shrivel and die, they're about the size of large toothpick. Not much to compost, really. The bigger concern is why every plant dies before it's 8 weeks old. Gotta be shitty seeds.

[bdeegan]

How old is the plant is the pic?

[bdeegan]

I hope so too but if that’s the size at 6 weeks, well, yeah, Huston we have problems.

[Allenpro]

Agreed, like Rwise said the answer is at the top of the page. If I had read as much in schol as I have about weed I could have a PHD, lol.

[bdeegan]

Lol holy shit that is funny and so true! I keep stressing to a friend who struggles to grow dank to read gwe more than once! Read it, start a grow, then re-read each section as you are approaching that stage.

[HobbitGDF]

I'd say your doing something wrong. It can't be 100 seeds. What do you do to take care of them? A plant 6wks old would be big and ready to flower.
Could be soil. What soil are you using?
over watering or under watering.
No feeding enough or too much.
Tell us how you go thru things.

[Rwise]

Are the seeds autos or photos?
This plant looks stunted, my guess would be root issues.
During veg run the PH at 6.2-6.5 then in flower run it at 6.5-6.8.
Water in a circle around the plant outside the leaf reach, looks like the soil is wet on one side and dry on the other.
We need all details of the current grow.
What lights? What light cycle? How far from the plant? At what intensity? Which FF soil/s? Nutes or no nutes at what strength? And which nutes? Does this pot have good drainage? Did you add extra holes in it? Do you add perlite to the soil? If so how much? How old is this plant? Strain? Have you done a root inspection on a dying plant? How do you determine it needs water? How often do you feed/water?

[Rwise]

Hit the links at the top of this page and read read read!

[Allenpro]

Best answer right here.

[dirtymike]

Ain't growing weed easy. Reading, it's fundamental.

[Orggrwr]

If a seed germinates and comes up with 2 cotyldems the seed was fine. Bad seeds don't sprout and grow for 6 weeks then die. It's something in your setup or growing practices. As others have said we need much more info to provide any helpful advice. I know RQS has a bad name nowadays but I have grown some great plants from their seeds in the past.

[Allenpro]

What kind of soil is that? If you have to grow in soil I would suggest fox farms Happy Frog to start and then Ocean Forest, I am not a soil grower but maybe the top couple of inches could be Happy Frog and the Ocen Forest in lower half and dont feed anything until its time to flower. That little gal looks way over fed