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First grow ever! There will probably be a lot of rookie mistakes, but that's how you learn i guess ;-)
Got two different strains so i will split this into two seperate diaries. (other diary: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/147772-grow-journal-by-cypresshill78)
Day 1:
Soaked coco coir pellets for about 5 minutes and put one seed in each pellet about 0,5cm to 1cm deep. Covered seed with some of the pellet material.
I placed the pellets into a starter tray and closed the lid so that humidity would rise. After 12 hours or so sprayed some tap water on top of each pellet with a PH around 7 - 7.5 which is prob a bit too high..
Day 2:
Started lighting the seeds as suggested by community. Dimmed the lamp down to 40% and hanged it in a distance of 60cm, light cycle is 16/8.
Sprayed some tap water on top of each pellet in the morning.
Day3:
First seed became visible above earth! They get a little tap water once in a while with a drop of lime or vinegar to get PH down to about 6 - 6.5.
Days 4 to 5:
One after another i can see my babies growing 😎
Day 7:
Moved from plants germination tray to slightly bigger pots.
Started giving some nutrients: 2ml RootJuice in about 200ml water per plant.
Temps are often around 30°C which is too much! put an ice pack into the tent hoping to get temps down alittle but didnt really help...
Newbie question: Seeds are getting no light and no nutrition during germination, am i doing that right ?
When seraching the internet i got some contradictory answers there..
There is no need to give any ferts/nutrients, the seed contains enough nutrition for the seed to grow.
I like to have light, as it warms the seed slightly and once your seed sprouts, it can start growing/photosynthesizing immediately.
Hope this helps, Organoman.
Day 8:
Temps still around 30°C often..
Put exhaust vent on full power which seems to keep temps below 30° (was throttled to 60% bc of noise).
Temps are only in ok range when exhaust is on 80% to 100% power and when lights are throttled to 40%. Whenever light intensity is increased to more than 40% temps get to 30° :(
Day 9:
No visible growth for two days. Maybe stunted bc of the transplant ? Or maybe they are just building roots for now ?
Nutrients: 2ml RootJuice in about 200ml water per plant.
Day 10:
still no visible growth..
Lowered lights at much as possible and gave a little nutrition to each plant, about 0,3ml BioGrow (K-N-Ca-Mg) and 0,3ml of BioHeaven per plant.
Day 11:
All are Plants growing new leaves so i probably was just a little impatient..
Day 15:
All Plants are growing a little bit each day..
Day 17:
Leaves of one plant are kinda pointing downwards a little since about 2 or 3 days.
Dimmed light intensity down from 60% to 40% again.
split diary data into multiple weeks now instead of putting all germination info into the first week..
Transplanted all plants from small pots into their final 9L pots. Looks like they took it well and are growing each day a little bit.
Last two times i watered without nutes since run off water hot too low ph. Next watering will have nutes again.
Lights are set at 60% intensity. I would like to increase to max but temps are already too high with often times 30°/86F. When temps get that hight i often spray some water around inside the box which brings temp down to about 27°/80F and up's RH from 50 to sth between 60 and 70. doesnt last very long though.. maybe i should get some sort of automatic humidifier?
One month has passed since seed was put in growth medium. They seem to grow well width-wise but i wondern if they shouldnt have grown taller by now ?
Also they seem not thirsty at all.. i waited 6 days since the last watering and still the earth was not completely dry.. Maybe they still have to get used to theit new bigger pots.
3 days later now and they are more thirsty than ever! Gave em 2 liters each, only 2 days after the last watering.
Also cut some fan leaves to allow for more light at some potential bud sites below. Just hope I didn't cut away too much!
Put lights in 12-12 schedule since i dont think the plants will grow much taller in theit 9 Liter / 2 Gallon containers.
Raised light intensity to 80% and closed intake vents which created sort if a light vacuum inside the tent and seems to lower temps a bit.
Did some LST and a little defoliation.
Plants got really tall in the last weeks after flowering has started..😍
First pistils seem to be turning brown, probably harvest in sth between 2-3 weeks 😎
Two of my Buddhas grew so fast they kinda touched the light and seem to have some light burn on the buds..
Should i cut the brown parts away or just ignore it ?
Solange sie nicht geerntet wird, solltest du auf keinen Fall etwas von der Spitze abschneiden. Das stresst die Pflanze unnötig und hinterlässt eine äußerst Schimmel anfällige "Wunde".
Der Abstand zur Lampe sollte natürlich erhöht werden.
Die verbrannte Spitze schmeckt nicht sonderlich angenehm, lässt sich aber noch auf andere Weise verwerten. Wegschmeißen würd ich sie nicht.
CypressHill78
