Sorry I got no pictures for the germination. I had the idea to start a diary when I was already at the end of veg week 1.
Seeds were set afloat in ph-adjusted water for about 15 h and kept in darkness, then transfered to wet paper towels. Kept them in darkness at 23°C.
After about 48h all seeds had their tap roots out 1 - 1,5cm and i decided to put them in coco jiffies. Jiffies got soaked with ph-adjusted water.
Jiffies were placed in propagation box directly under my grow light. The lights veg channel was set to 10-15% of its total power, 30 cm above the box. Light cycle set to 18/6.
Kept the propagation box at 25°C and 60-70% humidity.
Seed Nr.1 broke soil level already 48h later, guess I should have placed it a little deeper. Nr.2 and 3 took another day and a half to reach the light
When necessary I sprayed the bottom of the box with a bit of water, as I quickly learned that spraying the top (dripping water...) or the seedlings directly caused little spots of light burn.
At end of germination week I planted the jiffies in the final pots (15 L fabric pots) and covered the seedlings with propagation domes.
Pot Set-Up:
15 L fabric pots
Bottom layer of expanded clay (about 2 L), followed by about 3 L of All Mix, final layer of Light Mix up to about 5cm below the pots' rim.
Idea is to have the plants first get the light mix and then reach the hotter All mix once they are old & big enough, kind of like a boost towards end of veg/start of bloom.
24h later I gave them the first careful watering, about 50ml per pot in a circle about 3cm around the seedling and its jiffy.
Tip: Don't buy those super small domes, as they don't offer enough space should your seedling decide to get stretchy. Had those at first and my seedlings were almost hitting their heads on the ceiling after germination week. Also tended to get too hot & humid. Domes with 15cm-19cm of height will do much better.
Hey! Nice grow! I, too, have problems with overfeeding the Hulks. All-Mix is even too hot for veg phase it seems. This strain doesn't even like moderate feeding obviously.
@BavarianBarbarian, True, I will upload the last week. Obviously I just had bad luck with one seed. It shows all signs of overwatering and nitrogen excess, which both can't possibly be the case. We'll see!
@FoxGrow, Yeah, Hulk Berry seems to be quite sensitive to nitrogen during veg. I paused giving nutes for about a week when I noticed the first signs. But the plants all managed to cope with it and I simply cut the amount of the nitrogen heavy nutes down by half after when I started feeding again. Overall the strain seems to be quite a resilient one that can forgive a lot.