Friday 15th February 2019 - germinated & planted -
So, I've added the first week in early so I can maybe get some criticism on my first grow in a micro environment. This is my first ever grow, with organic products and tap water.
I'm not after anything crazy but I'd like a good smooth first run.
I'm just a little worried on how well I'm doing the germination process as everywhere I read have a different way of doing this. As most of my stuff is organic I thought the glass of water then soil method would be most viable, but what I've done is drop my seeds in room temperature water and just waited till then dropped to the bottom and once that was done I've then transferred then into their main pots.
They've been in a darkish space with just an intake fan on keeping the temp and humidity around 22c/60h, I keep spraying the walls of the grow room and the top soil of the pots twice a day, it's now been 4 days and I'm wondering if this is all ok.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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19/02/19
1 has popped. I've now put a full 24 hour lighting on at 90cm above the plant tops.
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22/02/19
It's been exactly a week since I germinated and planted 3 seeds, of which I forgot to mention that 2 of them is Royal Bluematic but I accidently mixed the seeds together when germinated (haha classic) so it's a gamble for a week and with help from a great community I think I can say I'm off to a good start.
I've not watered or added anything apart from spraying the walls and topsoil with leached tap water. Going by the dated pictures everything is growing fine apart from one of the plants stretching a bit, but with guidance I've lowered my light and hope the little babe will be comfy with that.
I'm looking on adding a very light dosage of rootbastic with the first water maybe mid next week but my soil is still rather moist.
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24/02/19
I've mixed 0.1ml of Atami Rootbastic with 1litre of water shared between the 3 pots for a little hydration.
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Hi there!
I've gone and done some LST to my plants, you can see it pictured above.
Have I gone over the top with it and was it a bit late in starting? I'm also now thinking of lowering my 600w LED from 60 to 50/45cm for the now LSTed branches. Worth it?
Cheers
Hey Jedi!! Your LST looks fine not overboard at all👍 and no your not to late at all it can be done at any stage pretty much. and yes you can lower your light a bit if you want to just make sure to keep a close eye on it at first just to make sure it's not going to burn the plants Looking Good!!
@Red_i_jedi, when they do that stretch they really suck the nutes. The strains I've tried really could tolerate a lot of nutes during the growth phase.
@goodgrow, since this picture its stretched another 8cm or so... I'm fretting a bit as I don't have the grow space hahaha.. Whoops. I'll be updating here tomorrow so check the stretch :/