Help! Slow growth and curling cotyledons

Kazedwards · March 23, 2019

So I started almost all of my tomatoes and peppers using the baggy Method late February potting them at fist sign of germination into solo cups. A lot of them were up out of the soil by 3-6. So far very few are just now starting to get true leaves and the cotyledons are curling. I have a small light set up in a second story furnace room that gets down in the lower 60s and up to the 70s. The lights that I am are 2 2 bulb T8 6500k lights and also a plant light that I got when I first started growing from seed. At first I thought that the lights were the problem so I raised them to about 4-5” above. They were 2-3” before. They are not at all leggy but leaning a bit perhaps. They are on for about 18 hours with 6-8 hours between but that isn’t always consistent. They are in seed starting Mix. I don’t really know what going on. Previous years I have started them under lights in the garage with lower temps. The only thing different is the brand of starting Mix and also I got a new light fixture. It just seem weird and I’m out of ideas as to what is going on. I also have a small container of mint under the same lights that is going bonkers by now. I don’t know if that matters. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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March 23, 2019	#1
Kazedwards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 368	Help! Slow growth and curling cotyledons So I started almost all of my tomatoes and peppers using the baggy Method late February potting them at fist sign of germination into solo cups. A lot of them were up out of the soil by 3-6. So far very few are just now starting to get true leaves and the cotyledons are curling. I have a small light set up in a second story furnace room that gets down in the lower 60s and up to the 70s. The lights that I am are 2 2 bulb T8 6500k lights and also a plant light that I got when I first started growing from seed. At first I thought that the lights were the problem so I raised them to about 4-5” above. They were 2-3” before. They are not at all leggy but leaning a bit perhaps. They are on for about 18 hours with 6-8 hours between but that isn’t always consistent. They are in seed starting Mix. I don’t really know what going on. Previous years I have started them under lights in the garage with lower temps. The only thing different is the brand of starting Mix and also I got a new light fixture. It just seem weird and I’m out of ideas as to what is going on. I also have a small container of mint under the same lights that is going bonkers by now. I don’t know if that matters. Any help is greatly appreciated! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ -Zach