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Germination
24d ago
MindFlowers68 Mexican sativa germinated very quickly about 3 days but she did have a gnarly see hat i eventually had to help out with. She adjust just fine after that. I have a very exciting next run planned for my indoor photoperiods. Two weeks prior i inculcated some new bio-char with boogie brew tea, kelp, sea minerals and liquid fish. Then got some bulk materials together to make a new mix for 5 gallon starter pots. I made a separate diary with the mix i did because i didn't have enough slots for photos to include all of it here. Last few run had used lava rocks in the 5 gallons but i find the hard to get to a small and consistent and they make too many air pockets the eventually sag and making extra fabric pot unutilized. This time around I added rice hulls to the mix and got a coarser vermiculite which adds to the texture of the soil. The worm castings included worm eggs so some of them should hatch but if not I have worms on the way i will add a few to each pot. I made my hot mix and let it sit for a week and when I sowed the seeds after soaking overnight 12 hours. I made a separate inert starter mix for the top few inches of soil along with a small dished out area in center for taproot to get established in. I also mounted the top of the pot with the starter mix about 2 inches so i can get a little extra room between soil level and my fist nodes. I wanted to utilize every bit of space in the pots so the roots have as much room as possible because they may not be transplanted for 8 weeks. I let the intensity of light be very little starting off to get them to stretch just slightly too before giving them more intense light few day later. These seedling have already had quite the journey in their first few weeks of life. I had them started in the bottom of my flower tents when they were still on 18 hour light schedule, but they needed to be kicked out. The mushroom 3x3 tent was still setup and added my ac infiity light and got them some more light a few days after sowing. I didn't have chance to set up ducting to outside so it was heating up my lung room too much so I had to clear area on other side of house for a new veg tent. I originally ordered a hydropolis oversized 5x5 that would have been sweet but they never shipped it to me. So then I got creative and figured out how to convert my old 4x8 tent into a 4x6 tent. It has a 7 foot tall 2x4 rack for clones/seedlings and an oversized 4x4 area to tart my new photoperiods. I did have to barrow the 2 foot poles from my cool grows 2x3 tent I'm not using to make it happen a little easier with no permanent modifications. i just used electrical tape to shim the poles up to fit snug into the 4x8 poles.
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Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
24d ago
7.62 cm
Height
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
Nutrients 2
Aloe
0.264 mll
Liquid Kelp
0.264 mll
MindFlowers68 Seedlings were bounced around a little but as I carved out a proper home for them but this week are sitting happy in their new homes and adjusting very well. I fed them a touch of fresh aloe and liquid kelp.
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Week 2. Vegetation
18d ago
12.7 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
Nutrients 2
Liquid Kelp
0.264 mll
CalMag OAC - True Plant Science (TPS)
CalMag OAC
0.264 mll
MindFlowers68 Looking excellent so far. I gave her a light dose of cal-mag kelp once in the middle of the week. I have the ac infinity light setup on a 1 hour sunrise and sunset schedule and my other bestva light only turning on mid-day for a few hours to mimic the sun a little, an to save a little power but still give them a little DLI boost.
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Week 3. Vegetation
11d ago
22.86 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
119.38 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 7
Liquid Kelp
0.264 mll
Sea Minerals
0.264 mll
Epsom Salt
0.264 mll
MindFlowers68 Mexican Sativa is doing vey well this week. It is growing some nice shoots and a few new nodes. Leaves rich green on the new growth. I know my nutrients for this looks a little crazy for such a small plant but I only added a little bit of what I had mixed up from my other plants just to get them some of the boogie brew I made. Been monitoring my soil meters they are starting to drink the water faster now bust still only one watering needed this week plus that little compost tea boost.
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Week 4. Vegetation
4d ago
40.64 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
200 PPM
TDS
71 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
22 °C
Night Air Temp
18.93 liters
Pot Size
101.6 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Liquid Kelp
0.264 mll
CalMag OAC - True Plant Science (TPS)
CalMag OAC
0.264 mll
MindFlowers68 Easy going week for the veg tent basically on autopilot. Setting the humidifier to vdp mode really helps the plants be happy. Watered once beginning of the week a little on top and bottom fed rest of it. Pots are holding on moisture well. Tops looked dry but had some weight to them so I held off on watering again this week. I rotated the plants so they can get a mix of the two lights above. So the smaller plants under bigger light this week. I also increased the duration the bigger light so it is on to almost the whole light cycle to try to get the plants to even out a little.
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tantrumrage
tantrumrage commentedweek 02d ago
Love the colour composition! Are you recycling the soil after each run? If so how are the perlite holding up after a few cycles?
MindFlowers68
MindFlowers68 commented2d ago
@tantrumrage, Thank you! I usually start with a new mix for the seedlings in 5 gallon pots but they get transplanted into a mix that's been recycled for 3 years now. I re-amend after each round to try to replace what the plants take out. The pearlite seems like its holding up pretty good. I notice a little bit breaking down but it still does it job. One of the reasons I add it, hopefully liberating some of the silica. I have a lot of other aeration in my mix though. this round trying out rice hulls added I have some pumice in the pot they will be transplanted into my first grow but not much. The red lava rock seems to help, it is cost effective but It needs to be broken into smaller pieces before adding it.
tantrumrage
tantrumrage commented6h ago
@MindFlowers68, thanks for your reply :) I've only started recycling my soil about 1.5 years ago and decided against perlite, I've also added lava rock and pumic stones to keep it airy and rice hulls as well. Your plants seem to love your mixture, keep it going!
MindFlowers68
MindFlowers68 commented23m ago
@tantrumrage, Awesome man. Sounds like your off to an earlier start with the rice hulls than me. I wish I would have started adding them sooner. I think perlite does has lots of disadvantages. Wish I lived on the west coast to get pumice cheaper. although lava rock is pretty cheap here. its like 6 dollars for a 1 cubic foot bag. One thing I recommend just from my own anecdotal evidence. Get some bio-char in there too if you don't have any. I think It is a big part of why my reused soil still performs well if not better each time. All you need is a nice bag of hardwood charcoal and something to inoculate it with. This can be done for next to free at home with waste materials too. but for most people is going to be easiest getting a bag of real hardwood charcoal and some fish hydrolysate to make a soup or it to soak in for a few days to a week. There are so many options of what you could do. I've thought about taking my old stems and stalks from grows and turning them into char. I used boogie brew compost tea some liquid fish and kelp. did go anerobic or smelly or anything. did it in a galvanized troth out in the garden with a peice of carboard laying on top to keep bugs out.
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