This is my first grow from scratch and not much experience to compare to.
The Tangerine seed is placed between dampened paper towel on a saucer and wrapped over with foil. I wanted to use cling film but couldn't find it. Alongside is another seed for a separate diary (#01 First Grow).
In my grow cupboard are is a Blue Dream Sherbet which is just finishing (I didn't start this one) so there's a decent amount of warmth in there to help with germination. Literally just a couple of drops of BioBizz Acti-Vera has also been allowed to soak into the paper to help the process. Sat above the light in shade.
3 days in, I opened the foil expecting the seeds to have sprouted but they had only just opened. I decided to put these to soil now with the thinking that they've now already been exposed. The seeds went into biodegradable cups and watered enough to be damp. The 10L air pots were filled with BioBizz Light-Mix soil and had a 2L solution added between them. The solution: 2L water to 1/8tsp Microbes, 1mL Root-Juice, 2mL Alg-A-Mic. (BioBizz). Then sprayed all over with a strong Neem Oil solution to deter insects but not on the seeds to prevent over doing it at a delicate stage.
Edit:
The paper towel method failed so tried again using the glass of water technique which this time was a success.
One light switched off so from now one for at least a couple of weeks, only one of the LED full spectrum lights will be running.
@GrowingGrannie, I water every second day (accounted for in nutes info) and the morning is watering time again.
Week 6 tomorrow, too. The white hairs on this so far are looking promising.
Stay tuned 🌿🌲
Hi everyone, thank you for visiting. I was Libricorn but now renamed to VertiGrow.
I have changed the format in which I'll be recording my grows with detailed daily stats and comments listed each week.
xx.x measures are placeholders to be updated as the week goes by.
Thanks again.
Happy growing! 🙂🌿
@VertiGrow, oh nah its fine. well, its definitely not hidden well, or at all. I just like the idea of a closet grow, would make keeping it warm easier and i could go back to using LED. I grow in a garage, it gets really cold so im using HID for the heat.
I (T.O.H.) like the use of chains, is the plant still hanging? I’d like to say I will check back in but I get lost in the 💨💨💨 and I always have a hard time finding the pages after that! 💚✌️
@CannabisCultivate, I know how it is, don't worry 👍.
It is still hanging with quite a bit more space below to use if it gets much taller.
I have been aiming to keep a constant 20cm distance to the light and figured that adjusting the pots instead would be the way to go in this tight vertical space.
Some may argue that this is too close but I've not yet seen any evidence of light bleaching. The leaves and flowers directly under are looking healthy.
Thanks for stopping by 🌿👍
@@Fauna, Thank you for the recommendation. I shall implement this on the next grow. The BioBizz schedule does state it at the bottom but I treated it as small print and overlooked it. Fuller growth is a most definitely a target next time.
love the microgrow, when i lved with my parents i tried to grow at least 20 times and always got caught when the plant was about 10cm tall hahahahah would have loved a closet grow.
A friend of mine dumped all of his clothes in a corner and hung a 125w cfl in there. That was the first homegrown I ever smoked, bloody delicious :)
@hardcorejunglist, Thank you, it has been a fun an ongoing work in progress. I'm glad to say that it's near completion - thankfully, as it has not been cheap to build.
That's some perseverance to keep going after getting caught so many times 😄. I think done to a moderately sufficient level, it's gonna be hard to hide the smell, noise and heat at the same time. Fans can be noisy so I find I'm having to fine tune a compromise that keeps it all on the down low.
"A friend of mine dumped all of his clothes in a corner and hung a 125w cfl in there." - Standard! 😄 The floordrobe is a better place for that anyway.
I have two Milyn 150W equivalent full spectrum LED bulb sets each with flexible bayonet fittings and 1 metre UK extension cables going spare. They will be sold through eBay so if you're interested and UK based, send me a private message and I'll be happy provide a link.