Durban Poison Dutch Passion Photoperiod

3/11/2022: Day 6: plants progressing as expected. Showing their first 'real' leaves...a bit stretched, but we'll fix that in the next few days as I trim and jar the previous plants in the tent and put these in their rightful place. Over the past few days I've lowered my 'low watt' lights so we're metering at ~275umol. 3/10/2022: Day 5: I was getting a bit nervous that my seeds weren't germinating. Maybe it's that Sativas take a bit longer or that the photos I'd been doing just popped really quickly, but I'd always had something above soil by day 3. Anyway, both seedlings showed today...one this morning, one by afternoon. Since the tent is in 'drying' mode, I set up a quick starter area next to it with 2 30w leds that are great for this purpose. They're still on the heating mat for another few days as well. You can see my little setup, complete with hot peppers (germinated about a month ago), and cups full of tomatoes for eventual spring garden planting. Metered and adjusted the lighting to be at ~150umol for a few days. I'll start ramping it up as things fall into place as well. 3/6/2022: Day 1: Just chopped and am drying my last run (2x Tangerine Dream auto + 2x Northern Lights auto). Fun enough, but ready to move on to other things and challenges. After a few runs of autos & things that were more heavily indica, I'm ready to try something different. Really looking to do a bunch of photo grows that are heavily sativa, and closer to 'landrace.' New seeds in hand, including a bunch of Durban Poison, Lamb's Bread, Maui Waui, Kali Mist; then also Super Lemon Haze, Blue Dream, "Chocodope" (chocolope variant), and Apollo 13. Gonna start with some Durban Poison. Since there's gonna be a good chance of BIG stretch and lots of growth, I'm going to do only 2 in my tent instead of 4, which is what I've done with the Auto-kneebiters. My plan (all best laid plans and all that)...is to run two plants, be pretty active/aggressive about keeping them low early with a manifold technique then flip them as early as possible to retain enough room for them to stretch/grow out. I'll do classic technique for 8ish colas per plant, and I'll grow to 5 nodes and then snip back to 3, etc. I know that it's not effective for churning flower, but I have plenty on hand...about 3oz. left from October harvest and another probably 12oz from the run I just harvested. I don't sell and I don't go through enough to need to push an aggressive schedule. Besides I've run all my 'fast' autos to over 100 days to get to full ripeness. So, time...I've got some. *yes these are older pictures but all materials/gear is the same. *We'll be growing using General Hydroponics Maxigro for the first week or two of nutrients then transitioning to Maxibloom for flower. I could do just MB throughout, but I'd like a bit more nitrogen early on. We'll be using our 220-250ppm well water and I'll be also using Real Grower's Recharge weekly as well as .5-1g Epsom salts weekly. What I do for prep for planting: -plastic .75 gallon pots for seeding. These have had holes added to the sides for additional evaporation and have a ton of holes in the bottom. I like these better than solos, as they're deeper (more room for that vertical taproot), and are good for 3-4 weeks of veg growth before needing transplant. Also they're not hard to water correctly early on. -Pro-Mix HP+ for soil. It's had Xtreme Mykos added (about a tablespoon per 4g or so and well mixed by trowel in a 5g bucket. Once mixed I've added nearly a gallon of water that's been pH'ed to 6.5. Not super important to pH at germination stage, but I do it anyway. It's enough water for the soil to be moist/wet enough to clump when squeezed but not so much that you can squeeze water out of it. It will also be moist enough that I won't have to water until sprouts have surfaced and are growing. -Pots are topped (but not packed) seeds are dropped into .5" centered holes. I got 10 Durban Poison seeds, so I just picked two that looked fair sized and healthy. No care is given to seed orientation...they can figure it out on their own. I did drop an additional pinch of Mykos into the holes as well. -Placed onto a heating mat, set to 80% with the sensor inserted to about 3/4ths of the way in. I also happen to have seeding pots of all our summer tomatoes germinating too. Right now they're not in the tent but in a big plastic storage container/bin that has a low wattage LED grow unit over one side of it (Hot pepper seedlings are also under the light), so they're getting indirect mild light but probably something like 70ppfd or so. -Once we move forward, we'll be using General Hydroponics Maxi series (Gro & Bloom) after we have the first real leaves. I'll use grow for the first couple of weeks then transition to bloom before flipping. I'll start super mild w/ 1g of Maxigro when the first serrated leaves show up then ramp up to 5-7g. I'll also be using Real Grower's Recharge weekly and .5-1g of Epsom salts weekly for magnesium. The water will be our 220-250ppm well water that I'll pH to 6.5. Other gear/details: -Small humidifier w/distilled water running on an Inkbird -Fans/ducts are: AC Infinity T6 & S6 w/ Controller 67 (Temp/Humidity triggers, will upgrade to a 69 eventually), exhaust ducts to basement window and has an AC-I one-way damper to terminate so that hot air escapes but cool air won't come in. Intake duct has a layer or 2 or MERV13 filtering the incoming air and this also helps maintain proper negative pressure. Exhaust has a Terrabloom 6x16 carbon filter. Two 6" Honeywells are flown/hung on each end of the tent, on smart plugs, I usually alternate them hourly, but if these plants get as tall as suspected, I'll have one up top and one underneath. -pH Up/Down, BlueLab pH meter & cheapo TDS meter for water/feed. -There's an additional wifi/bt therm/humid. sensor in the room with app for monitoring anywhere. -Expecting some spring/summer trips, I'll probably be getting and using a Blumat system for those times.