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WEEK ZERO
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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 Cream Cookies, 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 Cream Cookies seeds are soaking!
SATURDAY 10/20:
Both seeds sank.
SUNDAY 10/21:
Both seeds sprouted and were planted. π
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:
Both seedlings emerged!
WEDNESDAY:
Looking good.π
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WEEK ONE
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THURSDAY 10/25:
Both seedlings had taproots at least 1 inch out of their cubes, so I planted them.
FRIDAY:
Several of their roommates dried up and died today, but both Cream Cookie's are alive and well! π
SATURDAY:
One of them is kinda puny compared to the other, but they're growing...π
SUNDAY:
I shall refer to the small one as "Bite-size"..she hasn't grown a millimeter today..but her sister is looking good.
MONDAY:
Both seedlings are growing..and the little one is catching up with her big sister.π
TUESDAY:
Watered with ph'd spring water. They were given monikers:
Cruella and Carlotta
WEDNESDAY:
I fed each of them about 32oz of ph'd water with early veg nutes..their first taste.
I wish!
They still haven't even shipped it to me yet!
4-5 day shipping..if they ever take it to the carrier...
In anticipation of having the new light for my spring grow, I ordered another batch of seeds from Seedsman tonight:
5 x Six Shooter
3 x Stardawg
3 x Tangie'matic
3 x California Snow (freebies)
1 x White Widow Auto XXL
..buncha big bitchesπ
@CRiSPrGrow,
I'm really digging them too. Such even coverage!
It's actually pulling 840w at the wall instead of the rated 800w..pretty cool. I'd say the overall spectral output is as advertised..3200k with a really nice peak in the 660nm range. Once the two additional 4ft bars arrive, I'll have the 4 x 5 completely covered...now I just gotta keep my plants alive long enough to enjoy them!!!π
@CRiSPrGrow, Zactly.
Though, with photoperiod strains, I'll prolly still do the paper towel trick because I prefer a bigger taproot when I plant them..and because they'll have plenty of time to get big regardless if I "faff about" (as MissFlowerPower says) with the paper towel.π