Prilyfe13 01/02/2026
Well, it's Friday and I don't normally start a run on a Friday, but I guess I just wanted to. Well, there's also the fact that I have my other Blue Dream run that I'm killing off in place of this little lady. If I screw this one up, I have 1 last seed.
Let's see, the last run was a major fail. I did everything wrong. Lol. Not enough light, too much light, not enough water in the Germination System, water too warm in the bucket, piss smell coming from bucket because of heat. Plant not growing properly not at an autoflowers pace. She should be standing straight up at about 4 inches now with at least 2 nodes. She has her two nodes, but she is also sickly. So goodbye.
So what's up for this run?
Well, the goal is to obviously not fail.
I'll have to increase the light intensity early on with this run. From what I learned in the last run, was that this strain likes a lot of light early on and then drops the need once she got in the tent. Or well the light was just too damned bright. I made this mistake the run before as well. Too much light. In my defense the seedling was looking for light no matter what setting I had it on.
Next is the nutrient solution for the seedling stage. I've read that of course don't feed nutrients to a seedling just starting out unless it's for seed starting. So in this case, I'm going to give a very mild solution after a good sized taproot comes out of the cube. Then I'll add the nutrient solution to the bottom of the tray. The solution is diluted to 1/8th percent of the normal dose. And I only used 4 different nutes. Advanced Nutrients, B-52, Voodoo Juice, Tarantula and Piranha. That's according to a feeding schedule I found specifically for Advanced Nutrients. It's very old, so it shouldn't harm anything. Oh and I also without thinking added a small dose of silica blast in the beginning. Luckily I was following the 1/8th dose and left it at that. I was gonna add hydrogaurd, but I'm going to wait for a normal autoflower sized dose.
Issue number 3. Temp control of the water. The heater in the tent tend s to constantly run in this stage. I don't know why, last run it didn't do that at all. It was a perfect setup. This run, hopefully it will be like that again. I really don't feel like messing with the environment the whole of the run.
Issue number 4. Lighting in the tent. I had it way too high. But by the time I figured it out, the damage was done. She was practically laying down.
So that's all for today.
01/03/2026
She sunk!
That being said, it's time to prep the system. Tomorrow or later today, she will be in her rock wool cube. Along with her best friend Apple Strudel.
It's gonna be an endeavor prepping everything. My last grow got brown algae all over everything. I know, it's not a huge deal because I'm deep cleaning everything in the first place, but it's just more stuff to use and multiple applications... Ok, I'm done cleaning and now waiting for everything to dry. Not sure how much peroxide I should have used, but I used quite a bit. Both in a spray bottle and just dumping some in with some water. Lol. Everything is clean and sanitized. And that's what matters. Lol
Just wanna say it's been about 5 hours since she actually sunk and just before I put her in the cube, I saw her shell opened up with a beautiful tap root starting to form. She's moving quickly.
01/04/2026
So the tray was bone dry this morning. But that's ok. The cube wasn't. No sign of surface breakage, but that's perfectly fine. I wasn't expecting it overnight. It'll be a day or 2 before we see some green.
So this run, I cut the drip ring down a bit. That way it sits lower in the medium. Now it's buried in about a half inch deeper. Last run I had a fungal infection from dampening off... I think. Anyway, I figured it out. It was because the drip ring was on top of the media and splashing on the stem. This run should be much better. No dampening off, no infections and no issues. At least that's the goal.
Well that's it for today.
01/05/2026
Bone dry again. The cube stayed wet as expected. Not really 100% sure what to do about that. I know this system is setup to have a cell tray installed, but as I've said before, the cubes don't fit. If it was setup properly, I would have a nice dark place for the roots to go. As it stands I don't. Not sure what to do about that either. Lol
That's basically it for the day. She hasn't even shown signs of surface breakage. So we wait another day. I'm not concerned. However, if I'm right, the last one I started took root and popped up in like 3 days. Today is day 3 and I sees nothin. It's ok though. I figure the longer she stays in the cube, the better off her tap root will be. I think.
Update:
I ended up adding the cell tray and filling it with water after all. There's no air flow and I really need to be careful not to bring any pathogens in. Anyway, the water is filled nearly to the top with the cubes kinda forced in about a quarter way so I can still get it out. We'll see how she does. Hopefully I'm right and she'll be fine. Or more than fine. Happy even. I still have the mild nutrient solution. What I think I'll do is wait for the first set of leaves to come out. Not the finger leaves, but the single finger serrated ones. Then I'll change out the water for the solution. Hopefully I'm right and it will make things work wonderfully.
01/06/2026
She's out and almost up. Hooray! Apparently this is all that saved from yesterday. So yah.
01/07/2026
She's standing up and slightly praying. Looks great! I have the light set to 50% to help stop the Apple Strudel from stretching too much. No clue if it's working. Her leaves have been droopy the whole time even though she is stretching quite a bit. Doubled in size over night. Definitely not enough light during the day.
Other than that, I'm aiming for 75° and 70% for the environment. It's pretty on point at the moment.
