Had a shitty run of luck germinating seeds....I think I must have buried them too deep in the soil. Two of four seeds made it above ground (so far) but only one survived. Having problems keeping seed starting room humid enough and I lost one seedling from drying out I think. Fuck. Oh well, still learning.
May 2: it seems the well water here is not good for starting seeds. Ones started with city tap water had a high germination rate, but the well water germination rate was much lower. Now using distilled water with much better success. Some good seeds were wasted before figuring that out. Oh well.
@WishiFishi, no worries. I deal with water chemistry at work, and I knew this water had high sodium, but I thought it would be a long term soil structure problem and not an immediate growing problem. Sodium isn’t normally an issue but the ratio is so off in this water that it prevents the plants from accessing Ca, Mg and K all of which are crucial. Anyway, should have the water sorted in a day or two and hopefully that will fix things. Good luck with your growing and thanks for the comment...always learning means rethinking things sometimes.
Hey looking good man. Did this one turn out as female? Looks to be just starting flower as well but hard to tell... this was an excellent strain and curious if a 'traditional' photoperiod variety will flower outdoor... watching this one closely.
@NorthernChemist, hi and yes it looks to be a female. I’ll start force flowering all the photos soon. My side by side comparison last year on my two Wonder Pies showed that forcing clearly produced better buds. Flowers maturing under stronger light beats longer veg period.
@GrowwUp, not really looking much better yet but at least most of the cause has been found and fixed.
Too much sodium was preventing the plants from accessing the other cations (Ca, Mg and K). Now have a way to harden the water by exchanging Na for Ca and Mg. And I stopped using barley sprouts for now as those are high K and best used later. Still dangerously low overnight temps aren’t helping but at least the cation imbalance has been fixed.