What am I doing wrong? This is my first year starting veggies from seed, and I just can’t get the lighting right. My broccoli is both leggy AND scorched, and my lettuce is doing this. I have grow lights exactly 4 inches from the plants, on for 12-16 hours a day. They get watered from below 1-2 times per week. My peppers and cukes are THRIVING, everything else seems to hate me.
I would recommend to just leave them be. If they looked scorched though you should move them (this happened this year with my tomatoes because they were in a south facing window so I moved them to an east/west facing window). But when a plant is that young they will most likely work themselves out. But remember if you are planning on move them outside, please go through the hardening off process!
1 likeThank you for your reply! My lettuce is one of the only things I have left from my first attempt (this is try #2) so I’m getting very protective over it haha! I’m mostly worried about my broccoli which isn’t pictured, but this is round two and they have again grown to 3”+ tall with no sign of true leaves. I’ve heard broccoli can be very hard to grow from seed for beginners so I’ll give it one more go before I just buy starts from the greenhouse!
0 likes Well if the broccoli is what you are worried about, then you are worried about a usual occurrence! Broccoli seedlings start with the round two leaves called cotyledon leaves (at least I think that’s what they’re called). Then the seedlings grow another 4ish inches before starting real true leaves
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