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Ma Huang / Ephedra Sinica

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17h ago
Ma Huang // Ephedra Sinica
Zamnesia
3500K Light Emitting Diodes/25W
Cree CXB3590
3500K Light Emitting Diodes/25W
Cree CXB3590
2800K Light Emitting Diodes/25W
Cree CXB3590
DIY Soil
Soil
Indoor
Room Type
0 liters
Pot Size
Start at 2 Week
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Germination
6d ago
MalumProhibitum Why Ma Huang? Because it's one of the most motivating plants I have ever consumed. Maguang tea, a coffee and some tobacco after breakfast and the morning suddenly went from ok to perfect --that's why. Tap-root peeking out of the first seed after 2days and 22h, was expecting a lot more time would pass until roots broke the shell tbh this wasn't bad, not bad at all. Now i just need to find a spot under the lights, and a proper pot; crap.. wasn't expecting things to go this smooth. I still havn't managed to make room in the grow room, so they have to endure another week under the kitchen fan 5,5W LED w/o a pot; growing in paper-towel.
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Paper Towel
Germination Method
2
Week 2. Vegetation
17h ago
24 hrs
Light Schedule
0.02 liters
Pot Size
MalumProhibitum Exactly 5 days & 2 hours has passed since germination week 1 started, but I couldn't wait to drop some photos in first veg week :) I didn't know tobacco could exterminate some insects on contact. Saw a little bug exploring the grow, landed on the aztec, went crazy and started spinning on it's face, before passing over to the shadow realm. Aztec tobacco is a must in any of my grows, and works well as a soil-binder too, where I sprinkle a few hundred seeds on fresly started pots to prepare the soil; weeks in advance of the true grow. This preserves the spongy low density soil and the small roots prevents the soil from collapsing on first watering. A healthy soil is like a solid foundation to a house, it helps a lot. Only sign of insect-life in my pots are a few spring tails, refusing to succumb to the niccotine drenched soil, apart from those it's just nothing but bacteria and fungi I think.
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Hattiwatti
Hattiwatti commented3d ago
Interesting 🤔 God Luck 🙏
MalumProhibitum
MalumProhibitum commented3d ago
@Hattiwatti, thanks! m8 😘.
lazy_organics
lazy_organics commented6d ago
OMG i have recently seen a video on ma huang and was sad, that i couldn't get my hands on it. Keen on seeing how the plants turn out for you!
MalumProhibitum
MalumProhibitum commented5d ago
@lazy_organics, agreed! xD I stumbled upon em by accident when browsing for exotic seeds.
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