#7 – First Photoperiodic: Blue Dream

ojulhao Welcome to my new diary! For this season, I will be growing a single Blue Dream photoperiodic from Barney's Farm in my 60x60x140 cm (2'x2'x4.6') grow tent in a 20L pot. I know that's not optimal, I believe growing 2 or 3 plants in smaller pots would be faster. However, this is my first photoperiodic, and I want to focus more on a single plant rather than multiple ones, which is what I had been doing since I started growing. This was not ideal, as I ended up neglecting many factors across different plants since I didn’t have much time to take care of them. I want to try SCROG for the first time with this plant. After reading a paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34579367/) indicating that pruning the plants twice during cultivation is the optimal practice for increasing yield, I decided to apply it as well. I will be using Green Power 5-1 and Vegan Phosphor Boost from S&R Organics. This time, I also got a mini dehumidifier, which I plan to use during the flowering stage—though I’m not sure how well it will work. These are my plans for this grow. Hopefully, I will be getting at least 150g dry by the beginning of January! Let’s see, good luck to us! --------- About the germination After 3 weeks trying to germinate a Sour Diesel seed without any success, I decided to improve my germination method. For that, I followed a scientific article (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33732764/) which describes a method with a high success rate. Here it is: 1. Prepare a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution. 2. Leave the seed in the solution for 18–24 hours, no longer. 3. Use the normal paper towel method. Do this in a clean environment, avoid touching the seeds directly, use gloves if possible, and clean everything. Since it’s simple, I decided to give it a try, and I successfully germinated a Blue Dream seed. I gave up on the Sour Diesel, as I had lost 3 weeks and wanted to harvest this plant no later than the end of the year. After three days, I had a germinated seed and placed it in a Jiffy Pellet. I saw in one of BasementGanja’s videos on YouTube that he didn’t bury the seed under the Jiffy Pellet soil, so I decided to try that as well. I don’t recommend it, though—it seemed to take some time for the plant to stabilize, and it looked very strange at the beginning.