Hello! First diary, let's gooo!
After 2 successful soil grows (with advanced nutrients), I thought it's time to step up my game; mostly due to the fact that I have to leave for 8-10 days 2 times a year and the only 4 month window without july-august is nov-mar.
What's the plan and what is new to me:
- 9 fastbuds in 15L (4gal) pots
- 70% coco - 30% perlite (new)
- high-frequency fertigation (new) (150L (40gal) tank + 3000lph (800gph) pump + 9 * 6" Hydro Halos)
- Terra Aquatica nutrient line (new) + taking care of EC (new)
- I want to top all 9 (new)
- Scrog with a very low height (like in the 2nd photo)
- grow them horizontally and try to fill the holes as much as possible
- lst to help with the plan above
I also mostly built everything as you can see; each pot drains into a tray that's on a slope; I drilled a hole in the dray where I sealed a filter washer and a tube that drains into a bucket .. so I have 5 trays that drain into the same bucket, where I have a small pump with which I push the runoff into another bucket that's outside the tent; this way, the bucket from the inside, stays inside.
I am a bit afraid of this, but here we are! so far, 7/9 are out of the medium, one I think should pop-up tomorrow, but I think that one Amnesia Zkittlez out of the 4 planted, will not germinate; luckily, I had another one for backup, so today it went into the glass of water and tomorrow it's in the medium; hoping to not loose the herd. I will update as soon as I have news
What I did so far with the girls
- each seed was placed into a shot glass with some tap water; all shot glasses went onto the same tray, into a small cardboard box (to keep dark), along with a thermometer; this box was placed at the edge of a heating mat designed for seedlings .. I moved the box until the temp settled at 25 celsius (77 fahrenheit)
- after 18 hours, I tapped on the seeds, they went to the bottom
- in 2 hours they went into the coco