First time grower, please help me save my little girl

[pottymcpot]

Strain of Mj? Northern Lights
Hydroponic or soil? Soil
From seed or clone? Seed
Age of plant in question? 8 days
What stage (Veg/Flower; how many days into)? Veg
Medium (Soil, Rockwool, Hydroton etc.)? Soil
Container/Pot size? 1 litre
Have they been transplanted, if so how long ago? No
If soil, composition ratios (peat moss, perilite, vermiculite etc.)? Unsure, but I mixed in a fair amount of perlite, 20-30% maybe. Soil also consists of 10% sand.
Water runoff Ph? ca 6,5 when watered with 8 PH water, unknown what it was when watered with 6,5 PH water
Nutrients added? None
Ratios of nutrients (N% P% K%)? -
Feeding schedule? -
When were they last fed/watered? Watered today
How are you determining when to feed/water (weight, wilting, etc.)?
TDS/EC/PPM?
Tap/RO/Distilled water? Tap
Ph before and after adding nutrients? Tap water PH 8, adjusted to about 6,5 w/vinegar
Is your Ph equipment properly calibrated? Drop PH test
Light intensity/Age of bulb/Wattage? 125w CFL
Distance to the canopy? 3-4 inches
Temps at canopy? 25c
Temps at root zone or reservoir? 25c
Day/Night temps (Min.-Max.)? 25c, prob 20-22 at night
Current air flow (CFM)?
Is there air blowing directly onto plant? a small amount
Using CO2? No
Relative humidity? Uknown, waiting for my meter to arrive
Growing technique (Scrog, Sog, Supercropping etc.)? None yet.
Has plant recently been pruned, clones taken, fimmed or pinched? No
Pests? None

My baby is not looking good at all. Seed took a little time to pop, about 6 days, had to help it by pinching in the end. Planted in 1 liter pot of soil w perlite, soil package says soil PH is 6.

Measured my tap water PH to be 8, so I have been using vinegar to adjust it down to about 6,5 up until today. Just watered it with tap water that I didn't adjust, and measured the runoff to be 6,5.

It's in a microgrow in a PC cabinet with a 125w CFL light. The other plant I have in the same cabinet, using the same soil, and watered with the same water is doing much better. It's about 3 or 4 days older.

My plant is growing very slowly, leafes hanging down and looking curly, dark with lighter spots. This is my first grow and I really don't know what to do. It's been watered about every 3 or 4 days, soil feels light and not too moist, so I don't think overwatering is an issue. PH problem maybe? Have not started giving any nutrients yet.

Pics:
http://i.imgur.com/u9ZTD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kYjrV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HWYvb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ieAwj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aYqFe.jpg

Pics of "sister" in same soil with same water:
http://i.imgur.com/gbqFk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lSihT.jpg

Any help would be much appreciated!
Edit: Lights are on 18/6

 

[Sam the Caveman]

It looks like a mutant to me, some seedlings just come up that way, all mutantified. Sometimes if you give them enough time they will turn around and become normal plants.

 

[hempluvr]

Besides your soil looking dry as a bone u seem to have no issues. As stated above that is a mutant. Some plants grow out of it and some don't. Either way don't discredit it because its a mutant. Some mutants are FIRE! Good luck

 

[pottymcpot]

Thank you for your reply Mutants? Never even heard of that lol. The plant looked like that since the first day, I could see something was wrong with it. So nothing to do but wait is your opinion? What do you think I should do about the water/PH situation, should I adjust the water to 6,5/something else when watering? Or should I just give it tapwater PH 8 since the runoff then was 6,5?

hempluvr: It's just the top looking like that, some of the pics are from yesterday when I hadn't watered it for a couple of days. Thought maybe it was overwatered. I have given it water today, and the soil is moist just under the surface.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

If your using vinegar as ph down, make sure to water right after you adjust the ph. Vinegar adjusted water will rise in ph with time. Adjusting to 6.5 is the thing to do though. I wouldn't water with the tap water at 8, it will swing the ph in the soil up with time.

 

[pottymcpot]

Thanks sam, I will be sure to do that. Just thought since the runoff was 6,5 that it was OK, since the soil was kind of acidic with PH 6. I thought I had done my bit of research before starting this grow, but I hadn't even heard of mutant-plants lol. Hope she turns out allright.

Do you think my other plant looks healthy?

 

[Sam the Caveman]

One of the leaf tips is slightly yellow. It might be Ca deficiency, but its very early to tell for sure.

Do you know the ppm of your tap water?
Did you add lime to your soil mix?

 

[pottymcpot]

No sorry, I have no idea what ppm my water is. I have not added any lime, is that something I should do? I'm thinking about buying a soil mix with slightly higher PH to use at the next transplant. Sorry my pics aren't of the best quality, it was the best I could do with my cell.

 

[Stress_test]

One of the leaf tips is slightly yellow. It might be Ca deficiency, but its very early to tell for sure.

Do you know the ppm of your tap water?
Did you add lime to your soil mix?

That's what I was thinkin too.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

Nice photo, but uhh... ... I don't see Ca on there... ...good info on there though.

Thanks for posting it.

 

[Stress_test]

Nice photo, but uhh... ... I don't see Ca on there... ...good info on there though.

Thanks for posting it.

LOL Yeah I should have explained that the OP said he was a first timer and I figured he might appreciate the chart.
There are a couple other charts that go with this on but they are on a Russian site and I can't read it well enough to navigate the site to find em.
I might put out an S.O.S. in the Russian forum for a translator cause I for one would dearly love to have all of them.

 

[pottymcpot]

Great chart, thanks a bunch saved it for future use, I'm sure I will be needing it. When is a good time to start with nutrients? I have a bottle of biobizz biogrow, will that help with Ca-deficiency?

 

[pottymcpot]

Noticed some spots on my biggest plant today: http://i.imgur.com/DTceP.jpg

Some yellow, some dark and some brownish. Should I start giving it som e bio grow? I know the soil I've used has little nutrients.

 

[paladin420]

good advice above. I love my NL gurls. they will survive!!!! could what we are seeing be from "helping""pinching" the seed? I haven't done seeds in alooooonnnggg time so im just askin

 

[pottymcpot]

The seed took 5 or 6 days without sprouting, so I pinched it gently until I heard a little pop, and I saw the end of the seed opened. Within the next day it sprouted and was put in the soil. I saw something was different on the plant immediately, the back of the leafes were purple, and one of them were damaged.

http://i.imgur.com/2zu0f.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2valz.jpg