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And so starts the adventure of my first cannabis grow. I have some pepper growing experience, hope that will transfer over to minimize my screwups.
Soaked the seeds overnight in a glass of PH adjusted (6.2) tap water. The seeds were then placed on a wet coffee filter in a plastic sour cream container and then placed on the shelf of an upstairs closet ( 74 deg F).
After 1 day, three seeds cracked. After 2 days all 4 seeds had cracked and three seeds had sprouted root. One of the roots was 1 cm long and I decided to get em in the rockwool cubes.
Germination Week
Day 1 - After about 16 hours, I had 3 seedlings, man these little buggers are fast compared to peppers.
Day 2 - Still waiting for the fourth seedling to sprout, I can see a hint of green down in the rockwool so I know it's all good.
Day 3 - The fourth seedling sprouted, yay 4/4 Thanks Parkland. The seedlings are looking a little "leggy", I'm using 2 x Sunblaster T5 fluorescents on a humidity dome. I checked for roots and found the 2 had roots coming out the bottom of the rockwool and seemed to be in proportion to the stem
growth.
Day 4 - Not much change today except the root growth on one of the seedlings is phenomenal with a tap root already into the water,(1" below the rockwool). I have been misting water onto the bottom of the tray for humidity.
Day 5 - Chuggin right along, dayum look at those roots. Must be different phenotypes? Anyone?
Day 7 - Moved the seedlings over to the RDWC System. Added 135 ml of HygroZyme to system.
Day 12 - So far, so good on week 1 . There was a slight bit of droopiness on a couple of the seedlings 2 days after moving them into the RDWC system. I still haven't seen any roots out the bottom of the net pots. The PH started climbing (likely due to the rise of the water temperature) so I have been adding PH Down accordingly to try and keep it around 6.0 - 6.4.
Day 15 - Start of Veg Week 2. The girls are doing fine, but one of them has grown much more over the last week. Have been adding PH Down to maintain PH below 6.4.
Day 16 - Wow, it's easy to tell when these plants get roots into the nutrient solution. Two of the plants (with long enough roots) have started to leave the other two behind growth wise.
Day 17 - The third plant has roots showing out the bottom of the net pot. The same straggler from germination is at least a couple days behind the others.
Day 18 - Seeing some really good growth in the first 2 plants to have roots in the solution. The other 2 have some catching up to do. Added some Nutrient and CalMag.
Day 19 - Began LST on the 2 tallest plants.
Day 21 - Might have to change the reservoir fluid as the temperature is increasing and too high for my liking.
Day 22 - Start of Veg week 3 and all is well except the reservoir temperature.
Day 23 - Looks like one of the plants is flowereing and on closer examination looks to be a Male :(
Day 24 - Down to 3 plants, moved the male up to my Pepper Tent.
Day 27 - Pretty decent growth the last couple of days. I changed out 6 gallons of reservoir fluid and it helped with the temperature.......for a day.
Day 28 - and so ends Veg week 3. Down to 3 plants but they are doing pretty good, one is still straggling behind. I hope for at least another week before flowering sets in as I am seeing some really good growth and I want to LST some more.
I changed out another 8.0 gallons of water.
Yeah unless you plan on making seeds with a female burn it get it out of your life. 🤣 I’m sorry mate. I had two males out of my three seeds that sprouted. Such is life.
Day 29 - Trimmed off a bunch of fan leaves, try and get these girls to bush out. Tied down the third plant.
Day 30 - They don't appear stressed from the trimming :)
Day 31 - So I trimmed some more.
Day 32 - Not much to report today except the PH dropping after changing out 8 gallons of water.
Day 33 - PH still dropping so I changed out 4.0 gallons of water.
Day 34 - Changed out 4.0 gallons of water.
Day 35 - Changed out 4.0 gallons of water. Trimmed all 3 plants - lower fan leaves.
Start of Veg week 5. I think 1 plant is just getting ready to start flowering. I expect this week to see at least 2 plants start flowering.
Day 36 - Changed out 4.0 gallons of water - the PH is dropping and I have been changing out water on a daily basis. Only adding light nutrients and CalMag.
Day 38 - I've been trimming the girls for the last week or so, Also daily change out of 4 gallons of nutrient water. The PH is around 6.4 - 6.5 after the change out and within 24 hours drops to 5.4 - 5.6.
Good luck with your grow I hope you get the best taste of buds and healthy plants! Take care and stay lit! I will drop by sometimes to check on your process! Say hello if you ever visit my page!
Peace & Love - L.S.T 🙏🏼🌟
@Legendaryseedthumb, Thanks for the well wishes and encouragement. I'm liking the community here already. I expect I'll be learning something new every day. I'll be sure to check out your grows.
Good Vibes to you
LilGreenSprout
