First grow - Mystery Ontario Seeds

Germinated 13 seeds, planted 10 largest. Seeds starting popping soil after 24 hours and took 2 days for all 10 to break ground. First 4 days seeds did not have warming mat at rest and temps got down to 14C. After adding mat temps at night improved to 18C. Hacky setup without tent made it hard to keep high RH. Misted/watered plants/trays/paper towels. Lights: 2x125w CFL 12" height, 1 custom COB 4x25w 2 warm, 2 whiteLight schedule 16hrs 7am-11pm Avg lights on temps 22C No fan first week. Day 5 transplanted all 10 seedlings to party cups with MG soil. Day 6 one seedling showing transplant stress and fallen over - died day 7 Day 7 one seedling leaves twisting severely

This was a week with lots of changes happening. The sprouts have become the beginnings of seedlings and overall look good and healthy, not growing quite as fast as I would like but their beginning environment was pretty slapped together and far less than optimal. I figured if I was going to put time into this as well as the basic costs I might as well spend some $$ to get some far more capable equipment (still low cost) and make things much easier overall. EQUIPMENT ADDITIONS: Moved to 4'x3'x72" Vivosun tent on day 8- sprouting/early seedling stage I just had a small closet area set up with lights/foil so this change not only lets me start to control the environment but also is a more usable arrangement that will help to make growing that much easier Added Honeywell warm mist humidifier on day 8 - run on high with lights on is holding humidity in the tent to 70%. It's winter and without the humidifier I was lucky if I could get things to 35% RH so this is working perfect. On low setting RH can be easily kept to 55/65% depending on ambient RH Added 10" table fan on low during lights on. Want to replace this with a smaller clip on fan but it's working for now fine. Set to blow between the tops of the seedlings and the new Phlizon light. Added 4" exhaust fan in ceiling of tent during lights on. Added Phlizon 1000w COB led on day 13 and removed CFLs/frankencob Other additions: Vivosun PH tester, soil testing kit (ph/NPK tests) GROW NOTES: Day 8 light schedule 16hrs 11am-3am (better hydro rates) Watering with well water (slightly alkaline I think) - have now starting testing and PH is 7.38 Staked up plants after addition of table fan to give support to stems which were not stretched but looked thin/weak. I removed stakes after a couple days and then only staked individual plants as needed for a day or two to give me peace of mind. Plizon light added on day 13 set to 30" height with VEG/BLOOM on STRONGER off. Made a soil mix in preparation for transplanting out of solo cups into final containers. This is not ideal to make a mix so shortly before actual use but it's better than nothing and the plan was to finish week three with transplanting into the soil so at least I was trying to have the soil mix gel a tiny bit before use. The mix is below but I would not suggest my untested mix/ability as a guide for others. 4 bags Promix Organic soil 28.3 litre bags = 113 litres 7 litres earthworm castings 13 litres perlite (combinations of 8 litres Miracle Grow enriched .04-.01-.06 and 5 litres unenriched perlite) 2 1/2 cups organic hen manure 5-3-2 4 party cups or agricultural limestone (TOO MUCH!!) 1 party cup wood ash (TOO MUCH - will not use again!) NOTE- Originally I was only planning on making enough soil mix for 2x5 gallon pots and mixed half quantities of the ingredients list together. I did a soil test on this first smaller batch and had a ph of 9.4!!! The limestone and the wood ash had turned the mix highly alkaline and I figure I had unusable mix so I got the same quantity again of ingredients but added no limestone or wood ash. This tested to PH 6 so I mixed the two batches together slowly, checking ph as I blended and now test at just barely acidic at 6.8 overall. Time will tell if this batch has issues but at least it solved my initial concern and gave me more than enough soil to transplant more of the seedlings than only 2 into final containers. I won't be keeping more than 4 adults (more likely only 2) given my grow space but these are un-feminised mystery seeds and if I have a 50/50 ratio males to females then I will have 4 females to further winnow down to the final finishers as they show development. Nutrient test on the soil mix showed high nitrogen, low/medium Phosphorus, medium Potash.

It's been a good week, not as many gear changes other than to transplant the crop to finishing size pots. Things are going fairly smoothly I think and seem to be relatively on par with most grows from what I can gather. One issues I am finding is a few plants (one in particular #5) have some very crinkled leaves which I'm have yet to know the specific cause. I suspect it's a overwatering situation as well as a water PH issue as I played back and forth with my well water of PH7.4 and distilled water that had a PH of about 5.6. This could have caused some sort of nutrient issue or just stress in general. I've gone to straight watering my well water corrected to PH7 and avoiding overfixing anything to just let all the plants develop. I've not done any fertilizing since transplant as my potting soil mix tests high in nitrogen and medium in P and K so I will wait for accelerated growth (or signs of deficiencies) before starting to feed. In general things seem to be going well. Ultimately I will only finish out 4 plants max (assuming I end up with that many females)....probably less as my space/light might only work for 2-3 finishers but I'll cull as needed and once they start to preflower I can eighty-six the males.

Busy week with trying to correct perceived issues with my potting mix and watching the progress of the plants in early veg with their LST starting to fill out the pots. In week 3 I outlined the ingredients I combined to make my potting mix for final grow pots and mentioned to not use my outline as a guide due to my inexperience. This weeks developments of seeing some signs of nitrogen toxicity and testing runoff PH levels shows I have some issues and I tried to correct them this week. Day 22 - began LST plants and topped one (plant 5) as all plants were showing at least six nodes and bent most at the 4th node to promote bushy growth. Lowered the light to 24'. Day 23 - watered all plants with 4L PH 6.87/1 tsp molasses solution - approx 2 cups per plant. Slight runoff after watering. By late day early signs of leaf clawing (nitrogen toxicity) started to show on a few plants. Day 24/25 - continued LST and tucking leaves and misted plants with distilled water PH 6.8 twice daily to try to minimize nutrient absorption through roots and limit nutrient burn Day 26 - Big craptacular day of flushing all the pots with well water PH 7.45) mixed with wood ash and agricultural lime to try to bring soil level PH's up as well as add some potassium to the mix. Did not do an aggressive 3 time pot volume/water flush but rather a 1:1 flush to just try to bring the nutrient levels down slightly as well as leech the higher PH water throughout the soil. Runoff from pots at end of flush stages averaged 6.48-6.75. Day 27/28 - Plants appeared to have tolerated the flush well and are recovered and growing. Leaves fell soft and supple and less clawing is appearing on new growth. Will have to see if the potential shock PH levels of wood ash watered through soil have any significant issues but it looks like the early signs are very favorable. Some early signs of plant sex are showing on plant 8 and 1 - one or two preflower balls...I will continue them in the grow until I can verify sex 100% or when space really starts to be an issue.

A few transplants of the last smallest plants into 2.5 gallon pots. Still 8 plants total. Continue with LST and plants are getting very uniform and level. Watering with PH 6.8-7 well water with a light first fertilize of ProMix 9-4-4 (3/4 strength solution) and straight water averaging 2 cups water/plant. No runoff. Mild change of colour in a few of the plants to lighter green on newer growth following the flush from last week. Colour is slowly darkening on these plants new growth. Likely a PH issue that is locking out perhaps iron, mild fert feed made a minor improvement to colour as well. The leaf structure of these 3 plants in particular is also different with the leaves being thinner, airy and smaller on generally thinner stalks. All three look to be of a particular phenotype and/or female in structure. Have had days without running humidifier and still have humidity averaging 60% or higher. Been incrementally shortening light period to 14 hours on/10 hours off by day 33 (Feb26). Will likely switch to 12/12 at end of week six. Plant 7 is showing some female signs. Plant 8 not showing more male signs.