RQS Skunk XL on Coco under LED

On Thursday, March 5, I planted 5 seeds of Royal Queens Seeds Skunk XL. It’s going to be my second grow (my first grow: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/45804-zamnesia-seeds-sticky-beast-automatic-grow-journal-by-actiopauliana). At the time I planted the seeds, I was still able to move around freely, go to a bar or what not. At this time, my whole continent is basically in lock down. Incredible times, but I’m very happy with my first harvest. I’ve enough to get through months of isolation 😊. GERMINATION I planted five seeds in Jiffy pallets on March 5, after I soaked the Jiffy pallets and fluffed them up. Four seedlings became visible on Sunday March 8. The next day, those four had open cotyledons, but the fifth was nowhere to be seen. I dug and found her: she had germinated, but didn’t make it above the ground. I had buried the seed too deep. The others were fine and Monday March 9 will be day 1. On day 1, I potted the Jiffy pallets into 1L pots, filled with coco (Canna Professional Plus, well buffered and rinsed). I wetted the coco with plain PH’ed water, the runoff was at EC 0,4 and PH 5,8. FERTIGATION For this grow, I’ll use tap water, EC 0,5, PH 8,2 and GHE Flora Trio for my fertigation. I have a calmag supplement, but I will only use it if deficiencies show, since I’m using the GHE soft water formula and GHE says you don’t need a calmag supplement with the soft water formula. For this grow, I’ve invested in a PH and EC pen (BlueLab). I fertigated on day 2 for the first time at a 1-1-1 ratio GHE Gro, Micro and Bloom (0,7 EC, PH 6,4, which is around 0,2 ml/l per component). I slowly increased the strength with each fertigation and today, day 7, I’m at EC 1,1 and PH 6,4. The runoff is still at PH 5,8. I’ll reduce the speed of EC increase this week and slowly build up to EC 1,4 for most of the veg phase (maybe.1 or .2 higher in late veg). MEET THE GIRLS Hannah: She’s the smallest of the bunch and showed her head above the soil a few hours after the other were already born. She’s looking fine, just a bit smaller. Iris: she’s doing fine, growing fast the last few days. Jannine: she’s pretty much a copy of Iris, same size, same grow rate. Kim: she’s the biggest, her first pair of leaves are bigger than the those from the other girls. She also germinated first and her root was getting out of the Jiffy pallet by multiple centimeters after just 4 days. Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all lots of health and strength. Stay safe!