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Growing in Brazil
Total completed cycles by the grower: 1
Grow area: 60 x 60 x 120 cm
Light: Quantum bar 120w
Seed: Do Si Dos x Zkittlez feminized
Soil: 50% peat 50% perlite
In the first cycle, I grew 4 plants in 5L pots. I had problems and made mistakes. Because of this, I had a dry harvest of 73g, a not very satisfactory result, but considering that they were in 5L pots (which is small) and that I made many mistakes, along with the fact that 4 top buds molded at the end of flowering and were thrown away, this was the result. Now, to see the difference a pot makes, I started this grow with only one plant in a 25L pot. This time I will avoid the previous mistakes and record it step by step here.
Beginning of the second cycle.
23/08/2026 13:50
A seed was placed in a solution of two parts water to one part hydrogen peroxide. The container holding the solution was disinfected with alcohol, and the seed was placed inside. It will remain in this solution for about twelve to twenty hours, until its shell opens.
24/08/2026 09:22
The seed remained in the solution for 19 hours. There was no sign of its shell opening, but it remained submerged in the water instead of floating, which is a good sign. Because it remained for all this time, I transferred it to a damp piece of paper with the seed in the middle. Now I will wait two more days to see if its shell opens; if it doesn't, this seed has a high chance of not germinating.
25/08/2026 13:02
With the seed germinating, I treated the soil. The soil is 50% perlite and 50% peat in a 25L pot. Expanded clay in a spherical shape was placed at the bottom of the pot to allow for proper drainage. After that, the soil was added and watered with water and fertilizer at a pH of 5.8, enough to wet all the soil. This way I already leave some nutrients in the soil and activate the microbiota of the pot; even though it's an inert soil, there are still microorganisms in it that will help with cultivation.
26/08/2026 09:43
After two days the seed opened and its small root could be seen. The root is about 1.5cm long, already at the right stage to be planted in the soil. As I will be following an LST (Low Stress) planting strategy, I will plant it more towards the edge of the pot instead of in the middle and water it a little with a spray bottle. (In the photo it doesn't appear to have a 1.5cm root, but it was taken at a bad angle that showed less of the root).
26/08/2026 10:43
The seed was planted and watered. It was planted more towards the edge of the pot for the future LST technique I'm going to do. Now I'm going to water it without any fertilizer, just water, until the first pair of real leaves of the plant appears. These leaves are not the first two that will appear as soon as it emerges from the soil; they would be the ones after that. These leaves are more characteristic of cannabis. The seed was planted in the final pot, a 25L pot. Since I'm going to do a more "aggressive" training, I'll need more soil space to place the wires. If I were to do this in a smaller pot, like a 500ml one, it would be difficult. And it would be more difficult to transplant it with it all tied up. The idea is to start training right at the beginning of the plant's growth, when it reaches the second node, which is why it wasn't placed in a smaller pot before transplanting.