PNW Genetics - Strikeout AF

The last grow I did was about 15 years ago. It is great to get into the game again this time in a legal state and with medical benefits. This week will be pretty simple: Soak 13 beans for about 12 hours, transfer them to my veg room under a 6500k single T5 with grow mat for seedlings, and monitor the progress daily looking for the right moment to increase the light to two bulbs. Enjoy everyone.

Germ 10 days Completes week 1 Week 2 started on Sept 23 with the first true week of veg. G10-V01-F00 Nutes are at half strength or lower. I plan to bump them just a tiny bit on V day 3

Day 5 We wil have seedlings by the end of day 6 :)

Day 6 of Germ We have seedlings!

Day 4 since seed drop. Activity in about half of the cubes that I can see from looking in without disturbing anything. Always fearful of the upsidedown sprout. Climate control has cubes within +2F of 78F. 24/0 cycle. About 1/8th inch of the 275ppm nutes in the germ house at all times.

Day 2 Seeds in water for about 18 hours now. 75% +/- of the beans show some evidence of taproot. development! PHed rockwool cubes in 5.5ph water via GH's PH down. Created a seedling nutrient using only this seaweed plant food: FoxFarm's Kelp Me Kelp You. The water from the well is at 110ppm and I added enough kelp to raise the ppm to 275. The seedling mat is set at 78.0F and the plants are under a single VHO T5 6500k veg bulb.

Hi @MichelangeloGrows! Yes you gave too much nutrients, your EC/PPM is way too high for such young babies. If you use tap water for hydro, I would recommend to switch to RO water, this will give you a better visibility on what's really into your solution. Now to save these babies asap, I would get rid of the current solution, empty the reservoir and start with a fresh basis, with a moderated EC. Start with 1/3 of the recommended doses, no more, and slowly increase week after week if the plants are healthy. Remember it's always easier to fix a slight deficiency than to recover from a toxicity! Finally, seedlings seem to grow slowly from the very first days, so I would try to raise the solution temperature, the rootzone might be too cold, the sweetspot is 18-22°C / 65-72°F. Hope this will help, let me know in the comments section if you need any further information. Happy growing! 👊

2.2 EC (1100 PPM)? That feeding strength is for a plant flowering in full and a hungry one at that. For seedlings, use 0.5 EC (250 PPM) total, or your seedlings will burn.

2019 Oct 12 day 20 of the 18/6 Skipped week 3 nute schedule and will enter week 4 transition nute schedule.

2019 Oct 15 2019 day 23 Transition nutes schedule aka week 4 due to pistil sightings. Photos Uploaded. Will run transition nutes for 8 days or so and then transition to 1st true week flower nutes

2019 Oct 9, day 17 of the 18/6 Some smell! Dumped week 2 nutes, filled res with Flush solution, will run for 24 hours before starting week 3 nutes.

2019 Oct 2 @21:30 Since the CalMag and Hygyzyme have taken the ppm above 1000 ( the aim for week 2) AND we have some browning of the leaves, the next nutrient run will be at 75% of what is called for in 15 gallons.

Oct 1 - Day 8 of the 18/6 Changed the nutes on 09/30/2019 @03:00am - used FloraNova Expert Recirculating Week 2 formulation with Hygrozyme and CaliMag - Would like to keep the nutes going until Oct 7-10.

Today Sept 25 in the AM concludes the 2nd full true day of the 18/6 Photoperiod. Its actually been kinda hard to figure out which was day 1 and which was day 2 since a day starts in the evening and finishes the next morning but I think I got this now! As of this writing the plants are getting ready to shut off for the day and pick up the start of day 3 in 6 hours. I started the plants with the same level of nutes as I'm using today in the grow week 1 concoction when measured terms of Electrical Conductivity (EC) using the full FloraNova Expert Recirculating formula guide which was generally 275~290 ppm. 110 of that came from the water source which is mountain spring well water. At lights out, I'm moving to add equal amounts of nutrient to the res to raise the levels to 400-600 total ppm with every effort to stay at 510ppm. ph 5.5