Starting from seed
Day 1 12.31.2117
5 feminized seeds
1 gal distilled water, 1/8tsp Superthrive, 1/4tsp Liquid Karma
Scarified and put them in a plastic cup of the liquid on the router for warmth
Day 2
All 5 sank and several started to split their shells.
Planted them in the seedling pots (50/50 coco/perlite) with 2 tsp of the solution and a sprinkle of Mycorrhiza.
Set up a heating pad under a water tray and a humidity dome to maintain temperature and add some humidity. It's been in the single digits (F) and low teens here for a week and the air is bone dry.
Added about a tbsp of the germination solution to each pot and hung a fluorescent seedling lamp over the tray an on 18/6 timer,
Day 3
Temp 74
Humidity 72 and holding under the dome
Waiting for the first shoots to show
Day 4
Gave another dose of the germination mixture and replaced the seedling lamp with 4 100W equivalent 6500K cfls. Temp 74 Humidity 76
Day 5
3 of 5 seedlings have popped.
Added a 30% dilution of my Jack's 3-2-1 mixture to the remainder of the gallon of germination mixture. Temp 73 Humidity 76
Day 7
Looks like only 3 of the 5 are going to actually germinate. Bummer.
Moved the water tray with the seedlings into the small early veg tent with 5000K Quantum boards.
Added some paper towel sections to help maintain the humidity and left the dome on the seedlings to give them a chance to adapt to the stronger light. Continued with the new nutrient mixture.
@Hawkbo, I know it's been a while but I thought you'd appreciate this update. I grew out the last WCOG seed I had and the results were quite amazing. She was just under 47" tall and yielded a hair over 3.5oz trimmed and dried.
It was the same tent / nutes / light setup that I used for the full grow documented here.
Go figure.
@Hawkbo, Turns out I was a bit optimistic ... final dry yield was 9oz ... less than I expected but for my first experimental auto grow I'll take it. I have some other autos scheduled for the auto tent rotation but expect another WCOG in the near future with the 2+oz target in mind :)