Yet another first timer! Getting ready to start

Germinated Wed. March 30th and seedling hit the dirt on Friday. I’m using a clear solo cup as a humidity dome and have the lights at 100%

How does everything look and any recommendations? It seems like the soil is dry but I’m not trying to drown


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Sunday it poked thru and getting bigger daily



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Take cup off if seedling has emerged.
Water (if any) away from seedling (make roots seek out new ground).
Light height?

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Place cup dome over seedling before watering. This will assist not wetting leaves and water away from roots. Good soil will grow roots 7-inches in 7-10 days.

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Thank you! My light is about 18 inches away. I just hit 10 days today and here’s where she is.


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Welcome to the community. Great people already following wilk sit here watching like a creep lol

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Tent height important, get highest for grow spot

I have s 2x4x6

@Kj6879 Have a copy of these. Learn and live them, best you can.


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Good tent size kind of light

It’s the HLG 260w XL V2 rSpec

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Thats a great light you will love the results. I also got 1 running for the last 2 grows and 2 more other hlg lights also. Best costumer service ever

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She sure looks good… Do you still have light tuned up to 100%? Keeps a close eye on her I would probably be at 24" if it were me… :sunglasses: :ok_hand:

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That’s a great light,same thing I used in a 2x4

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Took your advice and moved the light up! I’m stuck at work all night so I’m waiting on the wife to send a few pictures.

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Here is why I recommended that PPFD charts are not easy to find for your light kit… But I did find one …

So basically you have one plant right in the middle of your tent and the lower PPFD for a 10 day-old plant is much better for that young plant.

Click Here > (Hlg 260 xl ppfd chart)

There you go another ILGM member got it from HLG :sunglasses:

By the way welcome to the Forum :wave:

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By the way here is a photo of one of your sisters well a WWa 13 days old in my tent… she is getting about 370 PPFD 18/6…

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You might find this helpful too. This is what they told me when I asked about the 260XL

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Not gonna lie. This is huge. I’m very uneducated in PPFD and all that. Thank you!!!

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if you have a IPhone you can check out the Photone app and get you Daily Light Integral DLI figured out pretty easily. There is a really good but long topic on here that @Nicky started and is very good information on checking lights.

https://ilgmforum.com/t/start-using-dli/64987

If you get the app we can help you get it setup. It used to be free but now you have to pay $ 5.95 to unlock the Sun Direct setting which is the best one to use. Here is a screenshot from my IPhone.

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@nmgeo Phones aren’t able to take correct light measurements. I dont see how this app would be any different from the others,unless it does something other than that?