First Grow

Day 8: 4" cubes soaked, then flushed with Ph balanced water. Seedlings transplanted to 4" cubes and fed with Jack's 15-6-17 (EC 1.0/Ph 5.8/62F) Excessive watering to flush and saturate cubes. Runoff removed promptly. Light power level increased to 80% during last 4 hours of light and going forward. Day 9: Fed Jack's 15-6-17 (EC 1.0/Ph 5.5/67F). Plants all looking healthy. Between 1 and 1.5 inches in height. Day 10: No feeding. Pineapple 1 showing signs of over watering potentially, and blocks felt saturated even after the full day of light. After being removed from the tent for two days, Jack 2 has sprouted! I watered the cube with Ph 5.5 water and put him back in the tent. Day 11: No feeding. Plants responding to drier conditions in the grow block. Also change the direction of the humidifier and one fan to blow away from the two pineapples, and balanced the Ph in the humidifier water. Day 12: Plants all looking healthy and seem to have responded to better root oxygenation by the break in watering. We also added Floracaps for better dispersion over the entire surface of the grow blocks during watering. Plants fed mid day Jack's 15-6-17 (EC 1.0/Ph 5.6/65F) Day 13: Transplanted to large grow bocks. Fed Jack's 15-12-26 Part A and 15-0-0 Part B (EC 2.4/Ph 5.5/ 65F). Not full volume for feeding as big blocks were saturated with Ph balanced water from soaking and rinse. This will also impact the run-off levels. Distance from light reduced to 24 inches. Day 14: Plants really perked up. Perhaps we were a couple days late on dropping humidity levels, decreasing light distance, or moving to veg. nutrient schedule. We also made the mistake of using untreated tap water in the humidifiers for the first week and a half or so. Had to do a pretty good white dust clean up yesterday on the clip fans and some equipment in the tent.