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Hi reader,
Started tuesday 6th of June with glass of water method. After 12-15hours, I put the seeds in the moisty peat pellets. First time I did this and the result is magnificent. No helmet heads like in the past, no overwatering since the pellet is already moist,....
Three of them popped to the surface at saturday. Transplanted it into the soil the day they appeared with their stem and cotyledons at the surface.
The fourth seed didn't even open up so I did an incision and I saw some progress but it didn't have the germination speed of the others so I had to start over. The replacement is doing fine. It is behind 3 days. It surfaced at monday.
The medium I use is Biobizz Light mix with 15L/4 gal fabric pots.
I mixed 75grams of RQS easy grow and treated it with anti-fungal (phytium, verticullum, fusarium).
Also mixed mycorrhiza with the soil and before transplanting the peat pellets, put around 5grams underneath the pellet.
The lights are the well known FC4800. I have 2 pieces in my tent and this time, I put them closer to eachother so there is some cross light in the middle.
This way I was able to put 2 extra pots.
Monday 12/6; the first 3 seedlings are doing fine.
The fourth has surfaced too. Somehow the hairy roots were visible.
Transplanted it immediately and burrowed the roots with a top layer of soil for protection.
15/6 day 6; getting around 6400 lux of light. The pot is saturated with water so I watered +- 50ml yesterday 2inch/5cm around the plant.
I've put the fourth plant in a dome. It's her 3rd day since surfacing.
18/6 Day 9; 125ml water with root juice. At night I sprayed some bio heaven and acti vera.
19/6 Day 9; light increased to +- 8000 lux.
Plant 4 gets around 6500lux. In a dome for 2 more days.
23/6 day 14 for first 3 plants. They grow differently but still healthy.
Plant 4 stunted :( too much moist build up in the pot even thou I didn't water too much. Could be at soil preparation. I put it into a smaller transplanting fabric pot so the rest of the soil can dry out because it felt very heavy. Gave some root juice. One piece of root got cut accidently. That pissed me off. Also sprayed some alga mic for the stress.
I believe this seedling had too much moist. The soil was moisty when I filled the pot.
Somehow the pot feels very heavy now and seems there is a build up at the bottom. I made some airpockets to the bottom.
Should I wait or take it out and put it into a cup and dry the soil?
24/6 day 15 - sprayed Alga Mic and Acti Vera before lights on.
Fourth plant has stunted. Put it in a smaller pot and I think I will keep it that way untill the end otherwise I will have to wait longer for the roots to fill up the 15L pot.
Light intensity increased to 8500-9000lux humidity around 72%.
28/6 day 19 for first three plants.
Day 16 for last plant.
Intensity increased to 12500-13000lux (= between 300-400ppfd).
Smallest receives 11500lux = 300ppfd
Lowered humidity to 54% so they can drink more.
Smallest plant is growing again but still very small. Cotyledon is dying off.
The seeds date from march 2022 so it could be that they werent of 90%+ quality.
Heights during pré-flower (12/7)
SDWG 1; 32cm
SDWG 2; 26cm
SDWG 3; 26cm
SDWG 4; 15cm -> transplanted it in 5L pot from the bigger pot because this one was stunted badly. After transplant, it started to grow again.
average of 750mol (28-30.000lux)
plant 1; 56cm / 22inch
plant 2; 44cm / 17,5 inch
plant 3; 51cm / 20 inch
plant 4 (5L pot); 47cm / 18,5 inch
I can clearly see that a smaller pot gives smaller buds.
The 4th plant was stunted at the beginning when it was a seedling because the pot was very heavy at the bottom (too moist) after soil preperation.
So I repotted it into a 5L pot because it would lose alot of time rooting in the bigger pot. It was a good choice.
It started to grow again and gained the "lost time" by not having to root further like in a bigger pot. In no time it went for it's height.
izzy89
