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[bbb123]

Hi everyone great site I've been lurkin and learnin for a few weeks now. So I'm trying my first seedlings (18 diff. variety pack off ebay). They are about 3-4 weeks old and looked fine except the brandywine. About a week ago the ends of the leaves started browning I gave them a little fertilizer over weekend but as I thought that didn't do anything. This morning I noticed some very small black (fine sand) dots on other plants. I'm usin starter dirt, flour. lights couple inches over. I'll try to post some pictures first post might not work. 1st pic is the sick ones second the rest of them third peppers they are doin good.

[Thomas]

Looks about time to start potting them up.

[bbb123]

Yeh I was intending to do that this weekend. I dont think the Brandywine's are gona make it there is not much left to them.

[robin303]

Welcome bbb123, You will like this place.

[dice]

1st pic, they look like the soil has been too
wet. You see that in all kinds of plants,
not just tomato seedlings. The tips of the
leaves will die first, and, slowly but surely,
the whole leaf.

It is usually not fatal, as long as they do not
get some fungal disease, which is more of
a risk when the soil is overly wet. (If you see
little hairs of fungi growing on it, you can
mist it with some 10-1 water/hydrogen_peroxide
mix to kill the fungi.)

If you let them get fairly dry and water them less,
they should recover and grow normally.

[bbb123]

Well I started potting up my seedlings today and guess what? I have alot more than I thought!!! Not a problem for the garden but my lighting is a little short. So here is the question I have a bunch of these lights http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies...10_103010.html how high do I mount these over seedlings I have them about 18"- 24" it dosn't seem to hot. Thanks in advance for any advice.

[dice]

I have not used that kind of light, but 18" sounds about
right for the wattage.

[kimpossible]

As far as mounting goes, I use chains that I have attached to extra flourescent fixtures and use a hook & eye screwed into a beam in the basement, then I can raise the lights as the plants grow.

As far a distance from the plants goes with that type of fixture - I don't have any experience with them myself. I think you are on the right track with making sure the heat from the light is not negatively effecting the plants. If they get too leggy, perhaps it's really not the right kind of fixture. I have always used flourescents because they burn much cooler.

Just my 2 cents!

[bbb123]

Almost got all the peppers done. Tomatoes are DONE!!! I'm gona need more room for round 2 pastes, herbs, Dave's trial tomatoes and