Sticky Monkies

==================================== WEEK ZERO ==================================== THURSDAY 10/18: My beans will arrive on 10/19, and I'm ready for them! I've come to believe that with so few total days that an autoflower will live, it's an absurd waste of time to sprout them in paper towels and then transfer them to media. From my best guesstimation, I'm wasting 2-3 days time with each seedling while they acclimate to new media..plus I've had some catastrophic penetrations of the paper towel by the tap root that led to failures to emerge from the soil. I'm gonna try a little experiment with rapid rooter cubes and grodan rockwool cubes this time around. I'm planting 2 x Gorilla Glue Autos, one in each starter media and germinating in an enclosed tray. Once I start to see roots, I'll open up the vents on the chamber for a day, then plant them in 3 gallon fabric pots. FRIDAY 10/19: 1 pair of Gorilla Glue Auto seeds are soaking! SATURDAY 10/20: Both seeds sank. SUNDAY 10/21: Both seeds sprouted and were planted. 👍 I have the 75w blue/white LED panel about 18" above them, and the 730nm far red light kicking on for an hour, every 6 hours. MONDAY: Nuttin yet.. TUESDAY: Only one seedling emerged thus far.. WEDNESDAY: Still just one GG seedling emergence, but it is looking good.👍 I floated another GG bean in case this one doesn't show it's pretty face.. ============================================= WEEK ONE ============================================= THURSDAY 10/25: The lone GG seedling had an excellent taproot, so I planted it. The other still hasn't emerged (very shy), and the floater sank but hasn't sprouted yet. FRIDAY: I didn't soak them well enough yesterday and wasn't able to check them til late today...GiGi was almost dead, but I managed to revive her. The sunken bean half-ass sprouted..I stuck it in rockwool. The first one, in the rapid rooter, is pretty much the same..half-assed sprout. I'm giving up on it... I floated my last 2 GG seeds in purified water...fingers crossed..🙏 SATURDAY: Neither of the two in cubes has emerged, and neither of the two beans I floated yesterday have sprouted... The one that is planted is doing well, but 1 out of 5 is pathetic...I'll give the others a little more time, but I'm afraid that they're all duds.😩 SUNDAY: Whoopie! Another Gorilla Glue seedling emerged! What's cool is that it was one of the first 2 seeds I dropped (a whole week ago).. it just couldn't find it's way to the light I guess.. So...now I am optimistic that at least one of the other 3 in rockwool cubes might also emerge...eventually.😴 MONDAY: Still just the one new seedling so far...I'm leaving it in the incubator for another day before I plant the cube in soil...It'd sure be nice to have the other 3 emerge...🙏 TUESDAY: The survivor looks healthy. 2nd set of leaves...starting nutes tomorrow. I planted the 1 GG seedling that popped a couple days ago. Nobody else has made an appearance yet.. WEDNESDAY: I fed the older one about 32oz of nutes today..her first taste. Her name shall be "Gertrude." The younger one is looking good, but has quite a way to go to catch her big sister. Her name is "Gretyl." Neither of the other 3 sprouts have emerged.