m0use's Exotic Seed - Honey Mints

Welcome everyone to my first diary of 24' I am using some seeds from a contest win back in 23' Has a pick of Honey Mints or Artic Flurry, the Honey mints has a much better bio about the stain and I'm curious of the minty taste that could be. @Exotic_seeds was generous to send over 10 of this strain so I am happy to use it in my first ever SOG, I don't think all 10 will germinate but if they do even better. Guess I should have has some extras just in case but that's to late now and I did not want to wait on anything. I also feel that using 2gal pots is a bit to large and feel more 1gal pots would have been better but again did not have enough of the seeds to do this. But that would have been my ideal. Maybe next run if this one goes well. I am doing this grow in a mix of homemade super soil. its comprised of Coir, Compost, Peat, Perlite, Vermiculite, Worm castings and various dry amendments. Went back to this style of growing as I figured getting all the runoff needed for 10 pots with out an automatic system in play was just tedious and I know i would have gotten sick of it real fast. I germinated these seeds in a glass of water with a bit of Yucca extract and a pro microbe for the plants. They soaked for about 8hrs and then I planted them in their holes lined with some pro fungi powder of about 1.5cm or 1/2 inch deep. Water that in with more pro microbes and a bit of K from a seed weed extract and a pinch of Mg. the EC was aorund 0.3 or 177PPM going in. watered till I had a bit of runoff just to give the medium a good rinse and take out any excess salts from the coir if their is any lingering. PH of the water going in was around 6.2-6.3. Run off ec was a bit high but not likey to cause issues as it should have just been the first little bit. One nice note if when calibrating my PH pen it did not falter in reading the 4.01 or 7.01 control solutions, both numbers where only off by aorund 0.03 +/- good little pen for keeping solid after all that inactivity and drying out. Does help to soak it in storage solution for a good 48hrs before using it for calibration or readings. Last time I did not wait for it to hydrate for lack of better words I had to calibrate it twice as it was off from the first calibration. =UPDATE= So this has not gone as planed, 5 of the seeds are dead "pics attached of ungerminated seeds on white lid" and 2 of the ones that are alive are not doing so hot. These two not so hot ones need assistance as the plants where growing upside down, They would have died if I did not dig em up a bit to find that, and they are not likely to survive after my little correction. only 3 popped up and grew "normally" in my view. This all could be from my soil mix, however I have used this in the past and had no issues, It could be from my germination method or even how I stored the seeds, lastly it could be the seeds them selves or how they where transported to me. The high EC runoff I was having was new to me but I never monitored the run off before in a soil grow, given I have used this mix before its weird and 3 of the seeds seem unbothered. In the end I have 3 healthy looking plants and 2 maybes so I will no longer be aiming for a SOG on this grow but just a SCROG style. and try and bush out these ladies. I will accrue some more seeds in mass and try a NEW SOG grow on my next run. Maybe I will run some of my buddies genetics as they have a surplus of seeds and I can plan for failures and sow 20 if I want ten. Side note this is only my 2nd time growing Exotic Seeds Genetics and the first time went well without a hitch, I don't feel that a newly released stain would have such low germination rate on its own and this is likely my own fault or a problem with storage. I will note some of the seeds looked quite small and white and im not used to seeing that, typically have darker skinned seeds, when I was soaking the seeds a few of them kept floating and did not sink, This is also something I'm not used to, everything should sink after 12hrs soak I feel. In the updated pics the pots with torn up seed package in them are the ones that are dead, and the one with the main chuck of seed packing is where I buried all the dead seeds in hopes maybe something will pop up in the next week but I'm not holding my breath. =UPDATE= #2 I am going to use the pot space for starting some of my hot peppers indoors. I ordered some new seeds this year and also used some older ones I had, All this extra time should help them get nice and big so I can have a good bumper crop of them. Naga Morich - https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/naga-morich-jolokia-pepper-seeds Fatalii - https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/fatalii-pepper-seeds Jigsaw - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-jigsaw Goronong - https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-goronong Only starting the Naga and Fat peppers as the other ones are still in transit. The Naga are a few years old and got them out of a dried pepper so hopefully they are still active. Spritzed them with a bit of peroxide to help germinate them, old seeds are going to take a bit more time no doubt. Will contuine to soak them for 12hrs and then get the little pots ready. 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