GrowerBaal Super Strains offered me the chance to choose a strain from them and then write a diary about it. Due to the weather conditions and lack of space, it got a bit delayed, but I'm fulfilling my promise here.
The seed will be soaked again for 12 to 18 hours and then goes straight into the substrate (Plagron Light-Mix) in a 4L pot. I'm still considering the nutrients.
I filled the 4L pot with Plagron Light Mix and added about half a liter of water. I placed a soaked coconut plug in the middle of the pot and drilled a 1 cm deep hole. I buried the seed there and filled the hole. In the end, I put a plastic dome over it. The rest has to do its thing for now. 😎
After a week, nothing has happened yet. I've moistened it twice now and will wait until next weekend at most; then I would plant a new seed.
On July 22, I started watering the second seed. Hopefully, I'll have better luck this time. After about 18 hours of soaking, I buried the seed in a 1 cm deep hole.
August 8. All good things come in threes. I'm trying something a bit different and mixed 1ml of 12% hydrogen peroxide with 5ml of water and let the seed soak in it for about 12 hours. I also replaced the soil with new one.
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Used method
Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
13d ago
1/6
4.5 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
57 %
Air Humidity
23 °C
Night Air Temp
4 liters
Pot Size
GrowerBaal Day 2 - 3 cm
Finally, a seedling has shown up. This wasn't really an experiment, but the hydrogen peroxide definitely doesn't seem to have harmed it. Maybe I should always do it this way.
Day 3 - 4.5 cm
Today I measured 4.5 cm in height. Since I won't have time tomorrow, I gave it 100 ml of tap water today. I left the plastic dome on for now.
Day 5 - 6 cm
Today it reached 6 cm in height. I removed the dome today.
Day 7 - 6.5 cm
The next pair of leaves isn't really forming. Maybe it was too dry without the dome? Anyway, I put the dome back on for now.
Additionally, I gave it 150 ml of tap water today.
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Week 2. Vegetation
5d ago
1/4
7 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
26 °C
Day Air Temp
60 %
Air Humidity
23 °C
Night Air Temp
4 liters
Pot Size
GrowerBaal Day 9
The second pair of leaves has developed a bit, but it's a little stunted. It seems it was really too dry. I gave it 50 ml of tap water today and removed the plastic dome since the first pair of leaves got too big for it.
Day 10 - 6.5
The second pair of leaves has grown a bit. I gave it another 50 ml of tap water today.
Day 12 - 7cm
The second pair of leaves is slowly developing. We'll see how it goes from here.
Day 14 - 7 cm
It seems to be slowly turning around. Yesterday (Day 13) I gave it about 50 ml of tap water.
@BudVision_Genetics, thanks for the tip. I can understand that thought, and I also tend to throw things away quickly, but I won't do that just yet. On one hand, Super Strains sent me the seeds for free, and the first two haven't germinated. It would be stupid to kill them off and then have the other two not germinate either. 😱 On the other hand, it's photoperiod, so it's not that bad if it stays in the vegetative phase for an extra week. The only thing that worries me is that it might hermie, but we'll see that later.
@GrowerBaal, I can totally understand that. Hopefully, she'll surprise you and turn out to be something nice in the end. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!