Original Sour Diesel - coco grow

For about 1,5 year I wasn’t really active on this platform. I abandoned the diary of my 3rd grow and didn’t even try to make a diary from my 4th grow. However, I found that during that last grow, I checked my old diaries to see what I did in previous grows and I started to regret that I didn’t keep any records of my grows. This platform is ideal to make consistent records of a grow, hence, I decided make a diary my 5th grow, which started on Thursday October 6. This will be a high frequency fertigation coco grow with automated watering and drainage removal. However, for the first few weeks I’ll be fertigating manually, util the plants are in their final 15 l AirRap pots. Six seeds are planted, but only three plants will be finished. For this grow, I’ve chosen Original Sour Diesel from the Cali Connection (feminized seeds). After some preparations, such as cleaning and disinfecting the tent, rinsing and buffering a Bio Nova cocobrick and rinsing the perlite, I planted six seeds directly in the prepared substrate in little 250 ml pots. I gave them a shot glass water with Terra Aquatica (former GHE) Pro Roots (just one drip in a liter water) at pH 6,2. I placed them in a humidity dome and placed a 55 watt neon light above it, just to keep them nice and warm. Within 72 hours they showed some first signs of life. The day after, it became clear they all germinated. However, on Monday October 10, one of them had not yet lost its shell and it was still firmly attached to the seedling. Even today when writing this (almost a week later), the helmet is still attached, but the seedling is still alive. However, I do not count that as a successful germination, but fortunately, five out of six did fully germinate. Since I’m going to finish three, I still have the luxury to make a selection of the best developing plants later on in the grow. Monday October 10 will be ‘day 1’. The day after, I removed the humidity dome and the neon light and installed the LED lightning (Mars Hydro TSL 2000), fully dimmed and 85 cm above the newborns. Thanks for stopping by and happy growing!