2) Barney's / Wedding Cake Auto / Micro

Again, outta the fridge and into the pot - except I pretreated the coco with water this time. Germination started a day after I harvested my first grow. Since the tent I used for the first grow was being used to dry it, I started this grow in a second tent I have - the 2x2x3 iPower tent, with plans to transfer her later. This earned me a few days of double productivity - a good idea. There was some complication with this germination, however. With my first grow, the seed sprouted after 54 hours , so I checked this pot 54 hours after planting as well, expecting to see results. Nothing there. I blew on the coco at the center of the pot hoping it would reveal small leaves sprouting up (this is how I uncovered the sprout last time), but again - nothing. I used my fingers to brush away some coco - still nothing. I kept going until there was notable depression of 3/8 inch - still nothing. So I immediately went into action. Grabbed a tablespoon, carved out a chunk of coco in the middle of the pot and put all the coco in a bowl. I used the spoon brushing ever so lightly on the coco in the bowl and a few seconds later - there she was. She had a taproot that was approximately like 3/4 of an inch long but in a spiral. Seems she was either planted too deeply or she fell further into the coco somehow. Either way, she had clearly been struggling to get to the top of the coco and was spiraling around. She prolly wouldn't have made it without intervention. This happened to me once with an attempt before my first successful grow. I inspected her taproot and it looked healthy and intact. I quickly tried to make a hole at the center of the pot, but her taproot had spiraled, so the hole couldn't be a vertical cylinder like you would normally do. This was going to require making a sort of ditch with a valley in it so that the head would be somewhat above the taproot, Understand what I mean? So I dug a sort of imperfect ditch, and then it was time to place the seed inside the ditch without breaking the taproot. I was afraid to use my fingers because I've had them slip out before and if it did in this case, the taproot would certainly break (it was long already) when it hit the floor. So the best I thought I could do was placing the seed in the spoon and guiding into place as best I could by gently using the spoon to place it in the ditch and lightly push it around to the right orientation with the head a quarter inch under top of the coco with its tail underneath. And I succeeded!! Gently buried the seed! But there was one problem. The seed was now planted like an inch off from the center of the pot. Oh well. I had to concede that. I'm no expert at this, so I don't know what effect planting the seed off center has on root development and/or overall plant development. I don't know if this affected anything. It would make LSTing the plant slightly more difficult at least, but I'll discuss that in my writeup of Week 2. Twelve hours later, she emerged helmetless. The next journey had begun, and a twelve dollar seed had been saved from the brink of disaster. LOL.