11.06.2022 Day 1
In the morning, the sprout was still in the shell and tilted on its side. After 3 hours, he straightened up, and I helped him a little, took off the husk with tweezers. There was a film left on one of the cotyledons - at the beginning he did not want to detach himself, but during the day he dropped water on it a couple of times and then carefully removed it too.
Now we can safely say that this will be the first day, the Star has bitten into the substrate, I am preparing to observe one of the most interesting periods - early vegetation. And it is interesting because every day progress will be very noticeable to the naked eye.
Prepare the popcorn, gentlemen
12.06.2022 Day 2
And the days flew ...
the second day of development began, the leaves of the Star grew a little.
I noticed that the seed itself was smaller than the average size, and the sprout also came out small. Hmm, I'll see how
things go further in terms of growth. On the other hand, the presence of dynamics is the surest and best sign, and we will have time to catch up with the size.
13.06.2022 Day 3
The flight goes according to plan, the only thing this time is that the filter is not attached to the duct fan and because of the force of the hood, the coconut clearly dries faster.
Tomorrow there will be the first top-up / watering - I will look at the situation.
Since there are questions about the grove, I will immediately write down the position on determining the time of the first watering. The very first hinting factor is that the top layer of coconut is clearly constantly drying out (in the photo, coco "cheered up" with a spray gun to raise humidity), and the second, 1.2 liters of water was poured during the initial watering, which is not enough to fully fill the substrate. Now, as soon as the root reaches the bottom (everything is verified here, 200 ml of water poured into the landing point when charging was given drainage, which means that the coconut is raw to the very bottom in this place), active searches for water and root growth to the sides will begin, so it's worth moistening the entire volume of coconut well, since for the root, a dry area = a barrier, and we don't need barriers.
In appearance, the yellow tips of the leaves that were slightly straining me disappeared from the sprout. And the leaves stretching upwards hint at a good turgor (water pressure), which means that internal processes proceed according to plan, the Star is happy, everything is high for her.
14.06.2022 Day 4
Summer has come to the city and with it the watering time. I lifted the pot in my hands, poked my finger into the coconut - it will be a little dry, full watering is needed. After watering, a glass of water flowed into the drainage, now you can be sure that the coconut is completely saturated with moisture. The released ppm also showed that the starting charge as a whole was not so strong, and it will be possible to water fertilizers, as planned, in about a week and a half.
The apartment has 35% humidity, we pass through the minimum, but we can do better, so I brought a humidifier and raised the humidity to 47% so that the little one gets high in full. The question of the temperature, as planned, was solved by setting the timer for the day mode from 17:00 to 11:00, i.e. in the heat in the box, the temperature is like in an apartment, which is about 3-4 degrees lower than the street, which is quite acceptable.
The star is still continuing its development, not particularly increasing in size. In the photo, you can already notice a hint of the second floor of the leaves, continuing to actively stretch the leaves upwards. The sprout itself does not stretch much, despite the included Far Red - hooray, I do not regret the plant in this grove, I give enough light from the very first day. Of course, you can't do without natural stretching, so I sprinkled coconut on the open trunk of the plant to the maximum - the more roots, the more tops
15.06.2022 Day 5
Judging by the leaves and stretching, yesterday's watering was beneficial. I added a little more light, otherwise the Star somehow stretched out abruptly during the day. In any case, upward growth is not downward growth, so we can only rejoice at the fact of rapid development.
Otherwise, the humidifier works during the light phase, at night and without it well, in general, due to a kind of light mode, a constant temperature of +25-27 and humidity of 40-45 comes out%
The leaves grow wide , it is immediately clear, indica 🌿
16.06.2022 Day 6
That's it, 5 days have passed without jokes and today we arrived. Today something happened and the Wi-Fi timer decided to go into hibernation, fixed it quickly, but the fact that the timer was turned off was discovered after 3 hours of darkness instead of the morning. There is nothing terrible, of course, in this, just as a fact that no growe is complete without surprises.
The plant stretches itself and joyfully pulls the leaves to the light, now the second pair of leaves has peeked out. And as for the stretching of the Star itself, I decided to add more light so that I would not think of stretching too much
In any case, the case is moving
17.06.2022 Day 7
With such a temperature outside, you can switch to daily watering from early vegetation, but for now I still plan to water every 2-3 days.
The star is growing-developing, the leaves are growing, I have added a little more light.
Everything looks fine, now the coconut is also full of organic food - let's see what the Star will say tomorrow.
Ok now that's interesting too. I'm learning . Alot here . Lol .
But gotta ask , I saw some red lights. Is that something u have one 24hrs or with the light cycle? Honestly never seen it so donno what I'd even have to Google to learn about it ..
Appreciate your insight and these diaries are golden. Thx for sharing
@Grow4Releaf,Thank you, it's a pleasure. Do you mean separate booster line with 660 nm diodes or do you mean red diodes on the upper lamp?
If there are red diodes that illuminate the tent in red while the main light is not on, these are far red diodes that simulate dawn and sunset to accelerate the transition of the plant from the daytime to the night phase and vice versa. The first two weeks work all day, then until the end of the cycle for half an hour at the end and beginning of the day, 15 minutes of which falls on the period before / after switching on / off the main light.