I am 5 weeks into my first grow. Seedlings @ 1 week old. I started with 10 seeds from some of the best commercial schwag I could get and I placed them in the reddi rooter cubes. I then put them in a humidity dome under flourescent lights. I kept the humidity between 60 & 70 % RH and the temp @ 75 deg. F and after the second day I had 2 sprouts. By the end of the first week I had 8 sprouts. @ 2 weeks I had 9 sprouts. I left them in the humidity tray until I noticed the roots growing out of the cubes. I had a small problem with my PH in the grow cubes and the seedlings suffered some wilting, I lost 2 but after flushing the grow cubes with water @ 5.0 PH and I fed them with a 25 % nutrient solution (just a few drops @ the base with an eye dropper) they came out of the shock. I transplanted the remaining 7 plants @ the end of 2 weeks into pots filled with Fox Farm soil, watered them with a 25% nutrient solution ( Fox Farms "Grow Big" ) and placed them in the grow room under a 400W MH and @ 3 weeks, the others have recovered nicely........ Prompted by a video I watched on YouTube, I trimmed all the dead leaves and tips mid way through the 4th week and they are looking good. I watered them all with distilled water and no nutrients. @ Start of fifth week I still have 7 out of the 10 plants left. In hopes to promote higher female to male ratio I am keeping the temp @ a steady 80 deg. F and the humidity @ 60 to 80% durring light hours allowing it to drop off to 20 to 30% humidity and cooling to about 72 deg. F durring dark hours. So how am I doing so far ?
Everything looks good overall. In about 2 more weeks keep the humidity to a minimum. I'm pretty sure my plants grew alot more than that in 5 weeks though. Try adding a HID light, that should speed the growth up quite a bit.
Hmmm, it's most likely just the angle. I use an HID during the day for heat and intense sun-like light. At night I typically use a series of 8 flor. lights that are above the plants and a heat lamp from below that keeps the plants warm during the cool winter nights. I also grow other herbs too though (mint, basil, catnip, lemon balm, poppy seeds). You can learn alot about growing grass from growing other herbs.
