Strawberry Haze For Daze

🙌 A great first week! A pretty straight forward germination of our regular (call us old school) Strawberry Haze Freak by Connoisseur Genetics. 👌We popped four seeds (along with four Neville the G by Connoisseur Genetics, see our other diary) in 25° (77f) tap water. 👉We used a small vodka bottle snugged into a heating blanket with the temp probe attached to germinate over 24 hours. 💩Twice the heating blanket lost power for up to several hours; luckily ambient temperatures kept them growing. 👉We're doing everything we can to not shock the seeds with temperature fluctuations. This is true of the whole indoor grow. 👉Once most of the seeds show growth breaking through, hand pop the rest by squeezing gently on either side of the seam until it starts to come open just a little. Be careful not to squish the seed. 👉The seeds go into sterilised seedling punnets filled with Canna Coco. Sterilisation is extremely important with an indoor environment that's damp. Keep it clean and they'll grow mean. 👉We're keeping the environment between 21-25° with 100% humidity until the first two true leaves come up. Humidity can then drop to around 90%. 👉Indoor grows are expensive! We control costs by minimising the space that needs heating and cooling as much as possible; using an old propagation cover is one way. 👉Transplanting happens when all the babies are up and just starting to stretch. Re-potting with the stems slightly buried helps prevent over-stretching. 👉The new pots bring the seedlings 36" away from the GrowMax 600 HID, sitting pretty in it's XXXXX 👉So far no nutes have been added to the tap water, we're just ph-ing it to 6.0 and testing every time with a basic home dye kit. 🙌Well that's week one - not bad at all. Everything works, nothing died, no cats got in the grow room and the power bill is still manageable. Bring on week 2!

😴Week two went so smoothly it was almost boring, in terms of day to day maintenance. 💩There was a yellowing of all the babies, which turned out to be a lack of nutrients and was resolved at their first feeding. 💩We're battling low humidity - sitting in the 50% range - as we keep the fan on for longer to keep that air circulating. As they feed through their roots now it's not a biggie, and spraying the room down more often will help. 💪They have a ton of life and are shooting up fast! At the end of week two/start of week three we've got a root showing through one pot already. 👉We are slowly introducing nutrients to the watering schedule. Cocos A & B is our main jam for every indoor grow, partly due to size constraints, partly due to budget; either way we get brilliant results from simple a nute routine. 👉The tent got a small humidifier (COVID so far putting plans for a larger one on hold) and a small fan this week. The fan points above the babies, making them shiver just enough to promote strong bodies. The humidifier is to help keep the humidity up, but it's not enough 😑 😋Are we dreaming of that smell or is it starting to come through? A light skunk for sure.