C-ali-4-nication

==================================== 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 C4's, 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 C4 seeds are soaking! SATURDAY 10/20: Both seeds sank. SUNDAY 10/21: Both seeds sprouted and were planted. It's on!👍 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 10/22: Nuttin yet.. TUESDAY 10/23: Both seedlings emerged! WEDNESDAY 10/24: Looking good.👍 ============================================= WEEK ONE ============================================= THURSDAY 10/25: Both seedlings had taproots at least 2 inches out of their cubes, so I planted them. FRIDAY: I didn't soak them well enough yesterday and wasn't able to check them til late today...suffered a casualty 😪 I dropped 2 more C4 seeds in purified water...an expensive mistake that will also be a pain in my ass to manage...I'm such a dumbass.. SATURDAY: The survivor is looking good today and both beans I floated sunk and sprouted. I planted them both in rockwool cubes today. SUNDAY: The survivor looks great, but neither of the sprouts I put into rockwool cubes has emerged yet. MONDAY: Another C4 emerged!!! Her older sister and I are ecstatic!😅 The other C4 bean in rockwool has yet to show her pretty face. TUESDAY: I planted the new C4 seedling today. Her older sister has quite a head-start.. WEDNESDAY: I see another C4 sprout just beneath the surface...maybe tomorrow. The seedling I planted yesterday is looking good, and the original survivor looks great. I fed her about 32oz of ph'd water with nutes today...her first taste. The big girl is named "Charlene" and the little girl is named "Charlotte"...if the new baby shows her pretty face, she shall be called "Chelsea."