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Purple leaves during first leaves.

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Yourhero

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I have had my plant for almost two months now and it is growing very slowly i add fish fertilizer once ever two weeks only a couple drops per cup. the leaves are sort of purple and the stem is partly red. but its sturdy when i bumped the base stem or "trunk" it felt very rigid and sturdy. please idk what im doing wrong here. oh its and led daylight bulb on a 18 6 light cycle and only water when soil is dry and inch deep.
 

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Hi Yourhero. It looks like your lighting may be a big part of the problem along with the soil you are growing in. An LED light bulb puts out only about half of what a CFL bulb puts out in lumens (light output) depending on wattage. Not sure what size LED you are running but a 5W puts out only about 450 lumens where as a 13W CFL puts out 900. You should switch your light to a 26W CFL if you want the best results. As for the soil, I would maybe add a mixture of perlite to it, perhaps 30-50% to allow for better drainage. Then, just give it water until it comes back strong and then you can start adding fertilizer again. Just my take on it. Best of luck.
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The purple leaves could be from low temperatures. What are the lowest temps in your grow area?
 
heading to home depot here pretty soon to do just that. yeah its been 2 full months i dont even really know what to expect because its bag seeds
 
Basically, you could be giving too much of one nutrient or not getting enough of another. The easiest way to fix this would be to use only pH'ed water until the plant gets reestablished.
 
It's looking a lot healthier to me. Much more green on the new leaves than before. Plus it looks like the leaves straightened out. You just saved your baby! :)
 
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a few days later still no fertilizer plan to on my next watering in about 2-3 days
 

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I pm'ed you as well but it is looking much better! Basically it appears to have restarted. You have a set of 3-finger leaves, followed by another set of 3-finger leaves, followed by a set of single leaves. To me, that says it restarted itself. The ones that are growing out next should be 3-finger leaves, then you should get a set of 5-finger leaves. Once it gets there you could top it if you wanted and move the light closer to prevent it from stretching. Also, you may want to blow a fan on it because the bottom part of the stalk looks a bit thin. Best of luck!
 
Hi Yourhero, welcome to the forum, and good save!! ellz I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to bury that weak stem down below the new growth? Or at least tie it to a stick or something? I'm a hydro grower, so I'm not sure.
 
You could try to bury the extra stalk with some more soil but it may not root itself without skinning the stalk and applying rooting powder to it. The plant will fatten up if a fan blows on it. It naturally fights against the breeze causing the stalk to get bigger, like a muscle. I don't think the extra stalk would be a big deal for a single plant grow. If you are really concerned about space you may want to consider burying it but I would say let it be just because it has been through a bunch of stress already and might not recover after something like that. Just my advice.
 
i dont have a fan on it now but ive heard that gentle bending of the stock throughout the "day" will help fatten it up too like a muscle the bends break a couple of cell walls here and there causing the plant to have to build more
 
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