Randyaster Completed setting everything up today. It took me a while to get my head around wiring everything up to the controller and familiarising myself with the whole thing.
I have my set up fairly neat but at some stage I will do a bit of cable management, as it’s annoying me seeing untidy cables.
Mixed the substrate with some perlite (80:20) popped the seed in a peat pellet in the centre, gave it a spray of water and put a humidity dome on top.
I have it in a 20L fabric pot on a 30cm tray.
I have it in darkness and will be starting my lights as soon as she sprouts.
Currently (night time) the tent is at 22c and 70% humidity. I’m hoping it doesn’t get too cold for the germination process. (Was this temp because I had the lights on by mistake, it will get a bit cooler)
I will spend the next week trying to figure out what nutrients to go for. I also have to order a ph tester and some sticky traps.
Hope it works out!
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Used method
Directly In Substrate
Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation
9d ago
1/4
3 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
7.0
pH
No Smell
Smell
62 %
Air Humidity
20 liters
Pot Size
60 cm
Lamp Distance
Randyaster We have lift off!
3 days after planting the seed, she popped out.
As of now, I am 5 days in total in to it.
I’m glad it sprouted as I only planted the one seed.
My sticky traps and ph meter arrived today. I now need to pick up some ph down solution as the water I’m using has a ph of 7.
I had the lights on for 24hrs to help with heat and a humidity dome over the seedling.
I have the light at 50% and about 60cm from the pot.
I’ve taken the humidity dome off, watered around the seedling and set a light schedule of 18/6.
I’ll have to keep an eye on the temperature when the light is off, but that 6 hours is during the day where it should be warm enough naturally.
I also set my clip fan to come on for 3 hours, then off for 1 at a low speed.
For the inline fan, I have set that to environmental settings to prioritise humidity.
My plan is to keep on watering when dry for the next 2 weeks and then introduce nutrients.
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Week 2. Vegetation
2h ago
1/6
4 cm
Height
20 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
6.5
pH
No Smell
Smell
73 %
Air Humidity
20 liters
Pot Size
60 cm
Lamp Distance
Randyaster Today is day 14 from when I planted the seed.
She seems to be doing ok for now.
I’m finding it really difficult to figure out how much to water her. I’ve been watering when dry, and trying not to water too much as a seedling.
I have watched so many videos and read so many different things that conflict each other regarding the volume of water to give.
The last watering I gave her was 500ml of water with a ph of 6.5
That was 2 days ago and she’s looking like she needs more. Today I’ll be starting to use bio bizz grow nutrients. I’m going to give her 1litre with 1/3 the recommended dose.
The humidity in the grow tent is a bit high at about 70 - 75%. I put a small dehumidifier in there about 2 hours ago and it has increased to 79%!! WTF!
It’s lights out at the moment but I’ll check in a few hours to see if it’s actually taking water from the air in their.
I’m not too sure what else to do regarding the humidity. I’m kinda stuck with where the grow tent is, so can’t change the lung room.
I’d like to try address it before flowering, so I’ll keep on trying.
I’m interested to see how the nutrients work out and my made up feeding quantities.
If anyone can give any guidance on how much to feed at this stage and the next, it would be greatly appreciated.