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Had first sight of the Bruce Banner Auto's from fastbuds at around 1am on Tuesday 15th Feb. which was pretty much exactly 72 hours after they were planted straight out of the packet into the soil. I went to check on them before bed and noticed the back left seedling almost out of the soil, then on closer inspection I noticed a stitch like glimpse of a stem in the front right pot, and a tiny speck of green poking through in the middle pot. By the morning I had 3 sprouts running diagonally across the tent from right to left, incidentally along the same line as my intake fan was pointing, but the latter of the three to sprout through still had their helmets on. I managed to remove one later that day with a cotton bud, but the other took another 24 hours and that plant is a little smaller than the other two, but has slowly been catching up.
I'm no expert by any means, this is my first ever grow, but I'm fairly pleased with how these three plants are coming along.
I have had to purchase a small 1.5L humidifier because although the temps have been fairly bang on thanks to my central heating, the humidity was stuck down around 40-45% which I believe is a bit low for the plants at this stage. This has improved things, adding 10-15% humidity to the 4x4 when its running on full, but needs to be filled twice a day to last the 18 hour light cycle. I have been turning the humidity off before the dark cycle as it seemed to drop the temp a little low
I had given up the ghost on ever seeing the other two seeds again by Wednesday night of last week, having had three seedlings for two days by that point, and I ordered another two Wedding Cheesecake Auto seeds from fastbuds, which I hope, taking a week less to flower, that they will be ready pretty much together. I received the seeds Monday, two days delayed due to the weather and set them off to germinate in coco coir pellets as per the recommendation on the fastbuds website.
Merely hours later however, I saw a familiar stitch poking through the soil in one of the empty pots and by yesterday I had a fairly sick looking, yellowish white coloured seedling with only one complete true leaf, 10 days after she was planted. When I had a look in this morning she looks much improved and had a big thick stem so I am positively hopeful she might pull round. If this wasn't an auto I would definitely persevere with her but with her being so, and having two new seeds currently germinating I'm not sure if its worth it. Any advice in that regard would be greatly appreciated.
I've only got 5 pots and no spare soil so if I do giver her a chance I think I will have to grab some coco coir and perlite and a new pot tomorrow and try growing one of the Wedding Cheesecakes in that with the same dry amendments I am using with the living soil.
Hopefully they will not get too cramped in there.
only other slight issue is the smaller one of the three established seedlings has a slight lean on her and a slightly thinner stem, but its not something I'm concerned about at the moment.
I have wet the soil through twice this week with little to no run off but gave them a little drink from the bottom too and the plants seemed to appreciate it, certainly the first time and I have been rotating them round a bit inside to encourage even growth with one of the plants being a bit smaller than the other two, and have introduced a 6 inch clip fan at canopy level to put a gentle breeze over them and all seems well.
NB. The nutrients named are the dry amendments added to the soil before germination, and not in addition too.
Thanks for taking the time to follow my grow and I hope everyone is enjoying their own.
@Ganja4Show, cheers bud. The man is a rascal. Since I discovered his YouTube channel I have boxed off 5x5 foot of my living room behind a secret sliding bookcase door, which contains my 4x4 grow tent set up, and he's got me more excited about growing it than smoking it lol. Thanks for the well wishes, massively appreciated