Bruce Banner AutoFlower seed from ILGM, attempt #1, seed a/j. Grow media and hardware from 5 gallon APot4Pot.com kit.
Day 0-7
Day 1 Hull(k!) cracked after 24 hour soak in tap water. Moved seed using a spoon to a small beaker of purified water, seed sank to the bottom immediately.
Day 2 Prepared 50 mm Jiffy pellet by soaking in 250 ml of purified water at room temperature for 10 minutes. Handled seed with a spoon, placing 1 cm deep in jiffy pellet. Set AP4P seedling cup in window sill. Filled bottom of seedling cup with water.
Expanded 2 bricks of coconut husk in clean 5 gal bucket, using 1.5 gallons of purified (pH 7.0) water and added Perlite/diatomaceous earth/mycorrhizae packets from kit. Mixed in 500 ml of SuperbSoil with an additional 500 ml tap water. Added remainder of soil to a 5 gal permeable cloth pot, topped off with wet potting soil mixture. Small stream, apprx 50 ml of water, drained from cloth pot. Placed saturated inoculated soil pot aside in dark room.
Day 3 Pellet swollen above seed cup overnight, with evidence of germination under peat. Seed cup placed into a Gorilla Lite 2x2.5 tent. Kind X220 light on 24 hours, output 25% full spectrum at 60 cm light height.
Day 4 Dicot emerges.
Day 5 Light timer cycle 18/6 @ 50% power, misted interior w/ 50 ml 4x during the day. Afternoon bumped power to 100% and cycle to 20_4.
Day 6 Light cycle 20/4 @ 100% power. Misting cabinet w/ 50 ml water.