Allen42
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone, so I’m a beginner when it comes to growing. I only have one grow under my belt so far and was actually very pleased with my first grow and the quality of my buds. I am now starting my second grow but am having difficulties with the seedling stage and will go more into that but I want to give you the basics of my setup. I am in a 4x4x6.5ft tent right now that I am using as my veg tent and have another 5x5x6.5ft tent I intend to use as my flowering tent. I am using the HLG 550 v2 r-spec and currently have it set at 25%, running DWC with air stones and hydroton as my medium. I have a hygrometer, ph meter and tds meter as well. Ph is around 5.8-6.2 ... I am going with two different strains this go around and will be growing white cookies and lambs breath. I will post pictures and update this as I go... SO my problem is occuring in the seedling stage and I have spent countless hours researching everything I could and I’m just a little baffled by this, hence the reason I’m reaching out for help. The problem I’m having is that when the seed cracks open and shows it’s leaves it all looks good but after growing it’s first set of true leaves, not the cotyledons, it seems to halt growing right as it should be sprouting it’s second set of leaves.. it then becomes VERY light green, and eventually starts forming what looks like brown or rusty like spots on the leaves.. after all my research I have concluded that it just needs to start being fed. Problem is that when I notice the early stages starting I will add light nutrients but the problem continues. This leads me to believe that it might be something else? ... I did notice very small amount of algae forming on the hydroton but from what I’ve read this won’t kill the plant or harm it any way? That the algae will just eat some of the nutrients, is this true? Sorry for such a long post guys, I just want you to be as informed as possible so hopefully we can get down to the bottom of this. Thanks for reading and I appreciate any help I get in advance. Sorry about the pictures it’s hard to see the spots I’m talking about but they are just starting to form on the biggest seedling.