Dream Queen Glue

6/2/20: First night of first week of first grow! I'm super excited. I planted 12 Romulawi Glue and 12 Dream Queen Glue (both regular seeds) in small, domed germination containers. I used 30mm peat pellets for half of each strain and Root Riot germination cubes for the other half, so it will be interesting to see which does better. I have them out in my garage, where the temp is a cooling 80 after the warm day today. I ordered a heat mat; it will be here the day after tomorrow, but I doubt I'll really need it. Temps will be warm the next few days. The plan is to plant two to three plants in 3 gallon fabric buckets using Ocean Forest soil in a small indoor grow tent and grow another three to four plants outdoors in 25 gallon fabric buckets, also using Ocean Forest. Haven't decided what to go with for nutrients as yet, but am leaning toward Advanced Nutrients triple formula based on reviews. 6/3/20: 24 hrs. No green in the germinators yet (I knew there wouldn't be yet, but still). The waiting's going to be the hardest part, maybe? 6/4/20: Heat mat arrived! My little greenhouses are looking very humid and greenhouse-y. Still no action yet, though. 6/5/20: Shoots!!! We have shoots!!! They're breaking out and have really gained traction today; tiny little nubs this morning, actual shoots this evening. One is even a recognizable seedling! (Bet it's a male.) I've realized, sadly, that all this commentary is actually PRE-Week 1, since Week 1 doesn't technically begin until after the seedlings have been transplanted. But I'm having fun writing about the experience, so it is what it is. 6/6/20: Morning of Day 4 and looking good. More shoots have broken ground, others are starting to unfurl, and the early risers are straightening up into proper seedlings. They got lots of light yesterday and spent six hours under the dark box last night. 6/7/20: Midday of Day 5. Early shoots are still looking great with straight stems, fully unfurled cotyledons, first set of true leaves, and shed seed husks. The second wave of sprouters is right behind them. Lastly, some I thought wouldn't germinate are struggling mightily to poke their heads up. Judging by their seed-husk hats, most of these seem to be the biggest, hardiest-looking seeds, so maybe the extra time it took them to sprout reflects an especially tough seed husk to crack? Maybe they'll be tough, hardy plants -- hopefully females! Weather is a perfect 75 and 30% humidity today (maybe just a titch dry, but the seedlings are looking good and have water in the bottoms of their trays). 6/8/20: Morning of Day 6. Weather continues to be knock-out amazing; 72 and 33%RH right now. I have the seedling trays on a table under a light next to my desk with the windows open. Romulawi Glue is looking like it's going to hit 100% germination -- the last holdout must have been a beefy seed buried deep in a peat pellet (so 3/3 on the slow-germ checklist)! Seedlings look strong and healthy across the board. Dream Queen Glue tray is 10 of 12 for germination so far (looks like I messed up and planted two seeds in one rooting cube). No sign of germination in two of the rooting cubes. Otherwise, seedlings are standing straight and proud. I'm using a CFL bulb with a MacGuyvered aluminum-foil reflecting hood, as Amazon has dropped the ball on my One-Day (it's been four) desk grow light delivery. The seedlings are doing well under it so far, but I'm eager to get them under stronger blue light; some of the early poppers look like they might already be getting a bit stretchy.